Playable LPs

@sns nice system, I bet its a lot of fun!

@speedthrills as usual nothing in your profile.

90-95%
there are some that go back to my college days or just beyond that I wouldn’t play anymore but the overwhelming majority of my vinyl is in good shape. I buy new or very high-quality used. When I buy used, I look for relatively clean copies of early pressings, most are VG+ or NM. I give everything I buy a good cleaning before playing, even the new ones, use high-quality inner sleeves and take good care of my collection generally. I love streaming for the convenience and variety and my digital rig sounds great. But not quite the same level as a really good pressing of my favorite music

I am an outlier here in that I use my analog for LPs that were never digitalized or were poorly digitized.  So I have about 50 LPs, the majority of which are at least 50 years old.  Many of them are unplayable, but that was a known risk when I purchased them

All in my vinyl play back equipment easily exceeds $100K.  My personal collection is about 3k records and constantly growing.  I buy both new and old records.  I also have custody of the records from an estate, another 8K records that I am sorting through.  Not all the records are in perfect shape.  So I have 3 RCMs and two Sugar Cubes, located in two houses to help ameliorate deficiencies.  Two days ago I opened for the first time a NOS Shorty Rogers record from 1960.  I had run it thru my VPI17 first to make sure it was clean, but the sound seemed thin, almost distorted.  This was very disappointing to say the least until I discovered my error.  In my haste and excitement to play it, I failed to notice that it is a mono record.  Set up correctly for mono playback, everything snapped into focus.  What had been wrong was righted. With our hobby the devil is in the details.