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Oh come on. There was capital letters (in the right place), punctuation (again, in the right place) and everything, in that sentence.
Give a lush a break why don’tcha.
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Little 10w class A amp which I think is Nelson Pass derived design and a pair of old Spendor Preludes
Sounds good to me
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So I’ve dropped the cheap and very cheerful AT VM95SH back on the Rega P9 with a 5mm Achromat, both of which were laying around and I have to say that it’s really pleasing 
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I think it doesn’t have the power or warmth in the bass and lower mid that the Rega Exact has, but it does have a better upper mid/top end, superior channel balance and inner groove performance.
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1042s are excellent, if slightly tricky to fit. Quite arm agnostic, used one in SME 3009, and Mission 774. Not as height sensitive as my Audio technica OC9 ML.
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I had one on a Michell Syncro / rega arm combo. Good cart, bouncy sounding, good fun, musical and generally even handed across the board. One of the best value MM’s for the performance on offer.
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I use one as a daily driver for testing phono stages and like it alot but I actually preferred the earlier 1040 which had the vdH tip rather than the 1042’s Gyger tip
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Haven’t bothered changing the cart yet, but have put an EAR834P in the system, I always forget how much I like it, great slam and dynamics.
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This all continues to bring me huge delight, and I don’t really have a bone to pick with how any of it does anything.
I’d like to start spinning cd’s again though, and I can’t decide whether to add transport to the 851N or just pick up a used 851C and plug in a cheap external steamer, as it’s the same dac etc
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Interesting.
I went toally the other way and ripped all my CDs to NAS connected to the 851n and sold my CD player
I have everything on my NAS. But still own all my CD’s. I find 99% of my listening is vinyl, as I just find it more rewarding to pick and choose music by flicking through real things. And I think I’d like to go back to using digital that way too.
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I will always play my CDs over the rip if I have them to hand. Cos tactile reasons.
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This is where I’m getting to with it. Streaming is super handy for parties, or when I have guests over, but I’m generally happier to listen when I really engage. It would be nice to get the discs out of storage.
Suspect the greatest flexibility would come from adding a transport to my existing DAC
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Same, plus I like having them as a backup - given the propensity of various rips and music libraries to eventually shit themselves, I’ve never regretted this.
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Yeah when I did my first library rip, years ago, I had spent a year doing it, and I lost it all due to hardware failure.
Since then, I have my roon server, the backup on my NAS, and a backup to cloud. So ain’t no way I’m losing anything ever again!
I still own all my CDs.
They are in the loft
I have a cheap usb disc player thing that I rip the rare new CD that is normally bought at a gig.
But I don’t have a CD player in my hifi system. I don’t find CDs at all tactile. The sleeve notes are too small to read and so is the artwork.
Vinyl ticks all those boxes
All the cds are in the loft. nas drives also in the loft. Stream or vinyl. I entirely regret the huge amount of time I spent recording cds to a nas.