Considering going Vinyl--Please talk me out of it

The point about Hi Def digital surpassing analog has legs, but I think it's flawed. I came back to analog recently (never got rid of my old albums and most of them are in A-condition). I bought a Pro-ject RM10 with a Sumiko Blackbird cartridge for $2880 which elevated my vinyle experience several orders of excellence above the AR-days. My vinyl blows away my several hundred CDs.

Soon after I bought the Pro-ject I bought a Korg MR1000 that'll record 1-bit DSD up to 5.6MHz. This thing matches the analog in resolution.

DVD-Audio is a format that I could be happy with forever, IF I had a broad software selection. SACD has that same potential, but it's really been screwed up with producer's perception that they need to add multi-channel. I think we're moving toward Hi Def programming coming only from downloads, at resolution rates no where near the potential of DSD, much less DVD-A, or fewer and fewer self-produced CDs OR vinyl reissues, which actually seem to be thriving.

Concerns for digital compatability, lack of average consumer demand (dude, mp3 is the best), distribution uncertainties, etc. all adding up to an environment where producers can't afford to take a chance on Hi Rez, except for the vinyl market. Of course that could be wrong.

Vinyl is here right now and thriving. It's just like buying into any new technology, if you wait for things to settle down, you'll likely miss the whole thing.

Dave

I have an Ayre C-5xe which plays all silver discs. Let me tell you that DVD-A and/or SACD is very close to regular CD sound...sometimes not even as good. If the potential is there, I haven't found it. Vinyl overall is the best method to get the highest quality sound into your home. All formats are very variable however, and you can easily find a CD better than a vinyl record, or an SACD better than a CD. For the most part however, vinyl measures up more frequently

Well, I like the czccbl (sounds like a polish name I once tried to pronounce in Chicago and got the door slammed in my face)approach. I can get a great AR mod, do the memory lane thing, buy some old jazz records, and then jump off the vinyl cliff and splatter myself all over the rocks of Obsession, continuing until I have a tt that looks like something the U.S. marines would explode with the aid of their bomb control units......

If you are getting in do spend as much as a sailboat will cost, I have a mediocre vinyl setup and my CD is far better, of course I am always toying with the idea of upgrading, but I really have to trash my current vinyl rig and buy a new one...or a sailboat.
In the meantime I am having a ball tweaking my horn speakers and my tube amps, coupling cap rolling and tube rolling, mainly rectifiers (what a change!)...So if audio on its whole isnt teaky enough now I need to relearn how to setup a cartridge dig out my protractor, choose the right arm that will probably cost an arm and a leg, and decide between SS or tube phonopreamp (my old tube preamp wont play moving coil)...All this to relisten to my old 80s Lps which I dont want to rebuy as CDs and that doesnt really sound good anyway... I go to used LP stores and I manily find my own Vinyl collecion over and over again...nothing new (what a surprise!!!)
So its newer Lps at 30 buck a piece for me.

But when a go to a friends house with one of those nice wedding cake turntables, vinyl can sound so good...

Some of these turntables you guys have posted here would never make it through an airport metal detector..bomb scare!...