Keep vinyl that is A, unavailable for streaming and B, sounds better analog. Keep CDs that are unavailable for streaming or upload them. 24 bit streaming is terrific. Thank you.
When to give up CDs and TT?
I purchased a Bricasti M21 DAC some time ago. Now I'm thinking about selling my SACD player (Marantz SA7 S1), Turntable (VPI Classic 3) and media (CDs and records) because I hardly use them. It would free up a lot of space in my stereo room. Any thoughts or experience with this?
My system is a Spectral DMC-30SV preamp, DMA-500 monoblocs, MIT Oracle cables and EgglestonWorks Rosa speakers. The phono amp is a Sutherland Engineering PhonoBlock.
Streaming is by Qobuz using Audirvana on my SG20 smartphone. The internet cable runs into the M21 for most listening or I use an IFI ZEN for DSD256. My downloaded music is saved on my laptop. I use the iFi SilentPower LAN iPurifier Pro and IFI Power Elite Power Supplies to reduce noise going into the system.
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@bigby I would discuss an option for recording the available Hard Analogue and Hard Digital media with @colossalsound . I'm confident a method to create a Digital File to a very high quality can be advised, which will then provide access to your hardly used hard media music collection. When the files are created, the decision about the hard media's future with you might become much easier to make. Who knows when making digital files, the regular rediscoveries of the hard media being played might fan the embers and reignite an olden interest? |
TT now, CD later, and local SSD files when streaming is unavailable. We can make a digital rig sound as analog as we desire, so what is the point of keeping a turntable? Audiophiles who want digital to sound analog and analog to be as detailed as digital seem somewhat ambiguous in what they are really seeking. |
When I was young, I abused my vinyl with cheaper turntables and whatever cartridges they came with and I wore out a lot of albums! After replacing CCR, Cosmos Factory three times I was happy to try a CD player and buy a few discs. They didn’t sound right at first, but in the late eighties, I was convinced to try newer CD’s. And some of them did sound better. I started buying mostly CD’s from that point on. I bought my first streamer maybe four years ago and it was fun listening to new music but I really missed having something in my hand to read. Now if I hear about an album and it’s not on Qobuz, I buy the CD. I haven’t spun a vinyl in a few years now, so my TT’s and what left of my vinyl (mostly symphonies) will probably go the way of the Dodo. |
I got out of vinyl decades ago and went cd’s only. I just got into streaming about 8 months ago and absolutely love it. BUT, I have no plans to abandon cd’s. Heck, I just bought a new cd player a few months ago after my old unit died after 17 years of hard use AND I still buy new cd’s! I listen to both formats daily. |
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