"HELP" tired Koetsu

I think what may be driving me out of analog is the price of new records( the damn things are $25 each if you can find what you want other than the 86th special re pressing of "Kinda Blue",as I mentioned I bought the CD player because I was tired of most of my collection),cartridges, and all the associated gadgets.

This may seem odd in this TT guy thread but I would much sooner buy a $5000 CD player than a $5000 cartridge. For one thing I can be more confident that I can get a used $5000 CD player with some life in it for around half of that. Used cartridges are a crap shoot.

Why do you think I have so much time to dink around here on Agon and with my Hi Fi, I haven't much worked since 9/11 happened, so that is something that would require selling something else, like the TT, current CD player, pre and Nitty Gritty. The records would have to finance new CD's.

Welcome to my nightmare Ecclectique! You seem like one of the gang already!

oops make that "Kind of Blue" DOH!

The Studer thing is a pure sine wave power inverter, that allows me to use a 12vdc battery bank to power my preamp, which is the only part of my system which is AC powered. All my other stuff is purely 12vdc battery fed.

The inverter takes the 12vdc battery voltage and steps it up to 120 volts, and creates a 60 cycle sine wave out of it, so it can be a fully regulated 120vac power source, that uses the batteries to get the power from. This totally eliminates using any street-mains power for my system, and is much cleaner than any power conditioner could ever be. The Studer Inverter is less than .05% total distortion of the line current at full power, and has no noise or hash on the line. It was designed to power portable audio/video recording equipment in the field. It has a perfectly timed 60 cycle frequency, and fully regulated power feed. The sine wave production is perfect, with no sawtoothing. It is perfectly quiet and distortion free, and none of the phase drift or power grunge of normal street mains power.

I wanted to go all DC, but I have not had the custom preamp made for me yet, to achieve this. The preamp is the only AC powered device left in my chain. You would not believe what a difference battery power makes to the sound of this system.

I buy all used records off Ebay and A'gon. You can get NM condition ones for under $10 most of the time. I also think that the original prints sound better than the new re-releases anyway.