Plus one for Mapman. I am keeping most of my CD's for when they start putting CD players back in cars.
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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After several moves, during which my records and CD's traveled in boxes, I ended up in a place with a perfect stereo room. I then started sequentially totally redoing my entire system into a nice little Nirvanaland. Then, having to decide what to do with 40 book-and-record boxes of recorded material, built a big bookcase in a spare bedroom with maybe capacity for a quarter of this stuff. My garage still holds a ton of it, going through which is a mountainous task. I keep thinking: no way on earth can I listen to over a fraction of this! So have been paring things, to say the least. Adding a streamer to this would be crazy, in my opinion, unless I was forced into some little retirement venue and could just compact the whole thing. I don't much want to think about that! As for the OP's setup, man, you just do what you wanna do! Each person has to make up his/her mind about matters like this. I figure that if time is limited and you can swing it, get what you always wanted. Time itself will take care of the rest, so don't stress yourself out! |
@lanx0003 your are 💯. I only stream but fortune to own an incredible Innuos Pulsar and Accuphase DC-1000 DAC. A few of my audiophile friends who own vinyl and CDs have almost entirely given up on them after they themselves also purchased highend streamers and DACS. |
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