Vinyl is back for good and that’s exciting

https://shopgoodwill.com/item/186565062

You got me all wrong. I’m no LP snob. I just don’t buy records in less than mint physical condition. That means no LPs from Goodwill or yard sales have ever qualified. At CAF I bought a dozen used LPs from a trusted vendor at $10 each, all mint. And he marked them down to $5 each. But while there, I saw, for example, that complete Mosaic sets, of which I have 9 or 10 accumulated over 30 years or so, were on sale from the same vendor, for $500 each.

Buying vinyl is way over my budget...

I dont listen to 500 albums merely ...

I like to explore...

Some albums i listened 1000 times, ( how is a vinyl state after few hundred listenings ? ) some others i like to listen to them few times...

But i like to own them , and i cannot afford a 20,000 bucks system with 10,000 albums... I must choose ... I had chosen a 1000 buks system speakers+headphones, TOP one for his price ...And i am happy and it is not a stopgap...

Now how do you keep 10,000 cd or vinyls ?

Answer : a room for them , it takes one wall of a small thirteen feet room for 2,500 cd or vinyl on each walls ...

Now i like books ...And i had more all my life than cds ...

Another room ....or two....

Where did i put my system ? In a dedicated acoustic room with no books nor my 10,000 albums for sure ...

Three rooms and i had no room here for my 2 children yet ...

I prefer lossless files...

My children are gone but even with a smaller house, i do not have anymore my past dedicated room ...

I ggo down to 500 paper books ... But all my cd were transfered on files all along the last 20 years...

Happily ...

Because i dont have the space now in a small house for two ...

And now imagine the cost of a competite vinyl system ?

In low cost system digital beat easily vinyl...

In high end if i listen mike lavigne and i listen to him because i trust him , vinyl is better ...

i will stay with a low cost completely satisfying system ...😁😊 With no frustration because trust me it sound minimally very satisfying ...

But there is no truth here, we have all our needs ...

@lewm I didn't think or mean you are a snob. (More like: I am a slob)
You just have different (higher) standards. I am sure that over time, I will too be pickier about what I put on my turntable, e.g. if I have a better cartridge. I am experimenting a lot, buying rare records. sometimes buying a lot of 10 at goodwill and find out they are all junk, sometimes buying 3 and they are all awesome. 
 

Why do audiophiles sometimes, not all the time, like take the fun out of just listening to music? Not only do I remember the fun of just simple crate digging, I still do. I’ve gotten some really nice gems at Goodwill type stores at a buck a piece, and the internet with discogs, and other independent sellers I've gotten some great tunes also.

One thing about vinyl and independent record stores in and around where you and I live, it’s the used records that keep them open, not the new uber expensive remakes. And when your older it’s nice to walk in a record store and see a bunch of crates with that particular unmistakable smell of time, with like minded people of all ages. In fact I dare say it’s the kids that has kept vinyl alive. Even the young kids have told me they like the sound of vinyl better than cd’s.