Friend had a luncheon for me, last week, to celebrate my 79th birthday..This week, she celebrates her 90th. We're going to a tea room, Friday, to celebrate hers.

I'm envious. That's the real deal, pricey but very very refined. The beauty of speakers like those is how they sound with the system, not how they look. What style or styles of music on vinyl? I surrendered to practicality about 15 years ago. I digitized a few hundred of my albums and hadn't made it halfway before I ran out of steam. I then bought and ripped over 1000 CDs into lossless format. Today I have over 20K discrete tracks, with some duplicates. I can search or call up anything instantly from my phone or tablet or PC to play on my home system (very good but sub-audiophile quality) and have my entire collection with me in my cars (either thumb drives or SD cards, it varies with the make of car). The sound is generally pretty good but I'm sure what you can listen to is several levels up. The convenience of the route I went is excellent, but at the price of sound quality. Because my preference is genres other than classical, like rock, folk, etc., it works for me. If I were heavy into classical, I probably would have maintained and continued to add to my vinyl collection. I still have it but never play records anymore. I have two tube amps but they're guitar amps.

Just below Sacre Coeur Basilica, Paris, with the city in the background

2 choices again 😃 A natural vein of silver at the L.A. Natural History Museum - the gems and minerals exhibit there is awesome... Custom motorcycles exhibit at the Petersen Automotive Museum in 2019