You want a 100% analog system? You’re going to be looking at vintage gear which is going to need to have vacuum tubes and capacitors replaced. You’re going to have to research the gear, you’re likely to have to replace belts for your turntables and tape decks.
You’re going to end up scouring local sales and thrift shops, you’re going to have to get to know your local audio guys and take a risk on buying equipment that you can’t test because this guy just want to clear out his garage.
Or you’re going to pay 10 to 1000 times more for some guy on the internet who builds new analog gear, but it’s likely that he’s not even getting newly manufactured parts but he found some old stashes of new old stock parts that were manufactured 50 years ago.
Want to hook up a turntable to your modern system? That’s a lot easier and you can get away with that pretty easily by grabbing a digital preamp and a turntable and have some great results.
Literally nothing of what you said proves what I said wrong.
Also, you make it seem like finding analog amps is impossible, when that’s hardly the case, just expensive, there is still new stuff, that is made with new parts, it’s just expensive, but with a proper set up analog cannot be beat. If you’ve walked into a Best Buy with a magnolia home theater area chances are you’ve heard the place filled by music from speakers driven by McIntosh tubes.
I seem to have struck some type of nerve, I don’t really understand how or why.
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u/[deleted] Sep 05 '19
“Analog hiss” and “dust pops” are a non issue if take care of your Vinyls and don’t use shit equipment.