I have not been on in a very long time. Lurking I guess. I had to comment on this. I am somewhat of an audiophile. I have a Technics 1650 (1970’s vintage, MacIntosh amp, B&W speakers (along with BIC speakers and some others) and with lots of other equipment (Denon and NAD cd players, etc).
There is no sound like vinyl. It is simply the best sound you will ever listen too.
Back in the 70’s
A fresh Pickering needle
and the latest Black Sabbath album
was ABSOLUTELY FANTASTIC!
I’ll stick with my Thorens TD124 with Shure SME, and there will be no “scratching’ allowed.
There’s still a huge library of jazz, blues, big band music, classical, and opera from before WWII. In the US, every bit of it was recorded direct to vinyl. Some of it sounds pretty good even though mike technology wasn’t all that great back then. We didn’t get tape recording (wire initially) ‘til ‘45 or so.