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Rediscovering records

I have a large collection of records (about 2000-3000) but  culled about 200-300 to play over and over again through the years.  I picked the best sounding ones when I had a mediocre analog setup because I thought most of the collection sounded poor. Some time ago I did a major upgrade to my record playing system (about $8000 worth) but still listened to the few hundred exclusively. Just recently I started to listen to the rest of the collection and discovered to my delight that most sounded wonderful.  The better equipment changed my listening habits dramatically.

rvpiano
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ghdprentice
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I had purchased a high end Nakamichi CD player shortly after the CD came out. At the time... no pops, incredible bass. I plugged it in a few years ago... it was simply god awful. I mean sounded terribly screechy and horrible. No wonder I kept collecting vinyl. It was so bad, I just don't understand why I bought any. Granted my turntable and phonostage were not nearly what they were a few years later.

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newton_john
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@mylogic 

You did well. 

@rvpiano 

I felt vinyl was better than CD, but my friends strongly disagreed. There were some quite heated arguments. 

 

 

 

mahler123
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I loved CD from the get go but I could barely afford them until the early nineties.  My LPs were trashed in a flood in the mid eighties and I spent about a decade listening to the radio.  Streaming would have been a Godsend.

  Of course it’s possible to get excellent sound from analog.  The vinyl replay equipment of today is much better than  back in the day and that helps.  It takes money to have an analog system that’s truly worthwhile, much more so than for digital.  Different strokes.

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