What is your vinyl commitment?


Total cost of ONLY THESE ITEMS: turntable (including power supply), Cartridge, Phono Stage (phono pre-amp).

 

Personally, I'm at $3,195 for Rega P6 with Ania Pro Cartridge and a pre-owned Zesto Andros tube phono stage (pre-owned for $1,900) - Magic!

 

How invested are you?  

connollymj

Linn LP12 Klimax without the phonostage, Koetsu Rosewood signature cartridge, Audio Research Reference 3 Phonotstage ~ $40K I also added a Silent Running Audio Ohio Class vibration platform which made a significant sonic improment. ~$3.5K

Zero.

Sold last 'table and all records back when CDs came out.

CDs, SACDs, HDCDs only since then.

Happy camper.

Merrill Williams REAL table, Tri-planar arm, Dynavector and Hyabusa cartridges, Zesto Reference phono stage. So about $ 40K retail. 

Oy vey. A lot. My main system is in my system profile here. A lot of that turntable equipment was purchased back in the aughts, when I moved to Texas full-time at the beginning of 2017 I needed to use the big Minus K bench top isolation platform, added a second arm pod and arm, more cartridges, had a custom compressor silencer box built to my specification, and retubed the phono stage with true NOS tubes. But the biggest "investment" (I’d call it an outlay, none of this is an "investment" in financial terms) is the record collection, which reflects 60 some years of buying LPs. Most of those were purchased before the Big Bump™ in vinyl pricing, but some were rare, others sought after in the collector market and expensive even at the time (now worse, and hard to find at least in top playing condition). So, yeah, I should be "committed" but have loved every minute.