Why do you listen to records?

Lots of Long Posts to read through, which is a Typical writing style for myself.

On this subject, I have an easier way forward to share my answer. 

I am a Vinyl user for 45 years with a Vinyl Collection created over 44 Years. 

Many who were very influential to me are today dead and part of their legacy is the music they contributed to creating being  left in their wake.

I tip my hat to these individuals each time I choose to have an encounter of their music. 

Vinyl is for me the Medium to walk down memory lane with. 

Music from CD, even though thoroughly enjoyed, does not have the connection. 

I suppose a bit like a Mother's Family Recipe Stew, the knowing mum's put a Stew on for a visit, gets one quite excited about dinner. 

I gave up on playing records about 30 years ago.  I gave up on playing CD's and started streaming exclusively about 5 years ago, and I've never been happier!!!  Does vinyl and CD sound wonderful?  Absolutely!!!  Does streaming at a high level sound wonderful?  Absolutely!!!   Just dig into your audiophile toy chest and choose one, or all the above.  Happy listening.  

The double albums are good for cleaning

I bought 4 boxes of classical records from the J. Robert Oppenheimer house. The records came from the estate of the couple who bought the home from Oppenheimer. They both lived to be over 100 years old and had recently passed away. The records were part of a fundraising event to turn the house into a museum. It is pretty cool to play records that were once played in the house of Oppenheimer and by this amazing physicist couple.

These records deserved an upgrade to my system, so I bought a Miyajima mono cartridge, upgraded another cartridge with VAS, got better cables, and found a deal on a KL Audio record cleaner. All game changers, but the KL Audio cleaner was the coup d’etat. It is so quick and easy to use and only requires distilled water. Now, my analog front end sounds better than my digital front end. There is a purity to the sound that is hard for me to describe, so that is what I mainly listen to nowadays.

I like turtles.

Bill