Do You Regret Selling Your Turntable and Albums ?

Walking the halls of Audio Shows, hearing dozens of systems, at a wide range of value.  It was easy to distinguish digital from analogue - Analogue won every time.

These experiences have convinced me that I will always have a TT and LPs.

Just remember that the recording/pressing engineers control the sound more than a good system...

A Simple Idea for Saving Space

I have a pretty large collection of classical music CDs. I’ve never really warmed up to streaming—CDs sound better to my ears, and I really enjoy the artwork and booklets that come with them.

For standard jewel cases, I take out all the printed inserts—front and back covers, along with the booklet—and place everything together with the disc in a good-quality sandwich bag. Then I arrange them alphabetically in a dedicated box or drawer.

The result: about 85% space saved, without giving up anything that matters.

And as a side note—classical music releases don’t slow down… dozens of new CDs come out every month.

I do not play LP that often anymore, but yesterday a few friends asked to hear some LP's and it was quite fun, to me different sound than CD or streaming (not saying better or worse)...but certainly left me thinking no way I'm getting rid of LP and TT..,not that I really wanted to...

I would if I did.

That even though I hardly ever play them anymore, typically maybe once to digitize and send to my library for streaming.

I am emotionally attached.  Plus I still like to have the records handy to perhaps just look at, read and appreciate.

Some go in frames and up on the wall for decor.

Oh and stored they make for decent acoustic treatments. :^) 

Someday they will have to go.  My kids will not want them.   Just not quite yet.

Thanks everyone for sharing your experiences and what helped make your decisions. Mine is a humble system: Audio Technica AT-LP120 USB turntable with a Nagaoka MP-110H cartridge. With the help of a Youtube video I removed the internal phono amp of the AT and use the phono amp in my Van Alstine tube preamp. I have very little invested in the turntable/cartridge and It sounds decent.

I admit there's something cool about handling vinyl and admiring the artwork and lyrics if you're lucky to have them on the sleeve. Switching from the AT cartridge to the Nagaoka helped reduce the noise of my older albums. Most were purchased in the late 70's and early 80's and probably didn't get as good of care as they deserved. They do now. My vinyl collection is not huge, perhaps 200 albums. I'm pretty sure my 1500 CDs take up more room.

I'm gonna take the person's advice who suggested playing some favorite albums and then decide. I may be back asking if people miss their CD collection.