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Considering going Vinyl--Please talk me out of it

I'm standing here on the vinyl cliff,peering over the edge...I had a TT in the eighties & nineties, an AR with the Underground Sound mods by George Merrill from Memphis, TN. It got destroyed in a series of moves, and my vinyl disappeared. I have a perfectly good CD player(Denon 1650AR),EAD PM2000 amp & EAD Ovation plus prepro, & thiel 2.3's. I would need a phono preamp before I could run whatever TT I obsess over enough to buy, as the Ovation has no phono stage. Push me over, or save me! mb
michaeljbrown

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jkalman
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Oh, another thing. You can also record all those alternate masters/remasters/remixes/out-of-prints/etc onto CD to archive them and remove pops, ticks, hiss, etc, if you like as well. So you can have the best of both worlds... The only downside IMO is you have to pay to play.
jkalman
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Michael,

If you want access to out of print albums, remixes, remasters, rereleases not available anywhere else, plus access to masters that have not been overcompressed and clipped to death, then you are doing the right thing...

If you are not interested in any of those things then stick with the digital formats, because you end up paying a high premium for good TT equipment and new albums.

I decided to go back to vinyl for the reasons listed above, and while it is expensive, I'm extremely satisfied now that I have learned to accept that there will sometimes be slight imperfections in the vinyl that are not worth returning an entire album over. "Good" online stores will let you exchange vinyl within reason. This is so they can continue to stay in business. I have found their terms to be reasonable enough to make me satisfied with my decision to indulge in vinyl again.
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