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"You spent how much on that cartridge?"

Should there be a ratio of the amount of vinyl to the cost of your playback system? A recent thread implied that you should not have a nice rig unless you own a lot of albums. Almost like one does not qualify.

I want to enjoy listening to the relative-to-some few that I own without compromising. I agree that if you have little to no familiarity with the format, you should enter gingerly. But once you've decided you like it, why accept mediocrity?

 

 

tcutter
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rivington66
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If you need someone to validate how much you spend on your system, you’ve got some soul searching to do.  Follow your heart - if your ears want to hear a certain musicality or detail in music get yourself setup.  Who cares about someone else’s idea of when you should have a ‘good system’.  

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ericba
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Let's not underestimate the value (monetary and sonically) of a good tonearm. No point putting an expensive cart on a cheap tonearm. It will not sound much better. It could even sound worse because of the mismatch.

rjduncan
61 posts
 

I think it’s funny that people want to opine on such qualitative matters such as how much you should spend on a cart or how many albums one should own or what percentage of the total system spend should be on a certain component. Guidelines are great, but beyond that you do you! If you have 1 album and a $30k vinyl system and you have the money and enjoy it that is awesome. If you have 5,000 albums and a suitcase player you like listening to on your Ford F150 tailgate go for it!  

tablejockey
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tcutter-

by the looks of your room/graphs, you did your homework-bravo.

Great to see the ol VPI doin its thing. 

Obvious you have the means to acquire a newer spinner, but I get it.

With the arm/speed management and cart system I'm sure it's not that far off from something more costly.👍

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