Greetings one and all

[wumpling]

Been a browser of this forum for a while but having recently met one of your good selves I thought I'd register.

My musical tastes are fairly eclectic ranging from progressive rock to classical to folk. Started properly collecting music in my teens, the uni record library was a lifesaver. However the oldest piece of vinyl I have is from 1958 when I was the tender age of 2. Most of the vinyl collection dates back 30 to 40 years though apart from some remasters and some new material from old artists that are fortunately still with us. Fell into the digital trap due to the poor quality of many pressings around the time the CDs burgeoned onto the scene. Helped by the fact that the first cd players were assembled on the surface mount machines that my employers at the time supplied to Philips and my first player, CD-303, was obtained at half price. Thus a significant CD collection now ripped to .flac and stored on various NAS drives.

More recently got back into vinyl and my turntable which had been gathering dust on the top of the stack, as more than one forum member has commented upon, was pressed back into use.

Listening hardware is a mix of new and old as you can imagine.

Gyrodec, ac motor, Orbe upgrades.
ADC LMF-1
Nagaoka MP-50 with MP-500 stylus
Arcam rPhono preamplifier
NAD C350 main amplifier
NAD C 545 BEE CD player
Arcam rPlay streamer
Cambridge Audio CXN v2 streamer
Celestion Ditton 44 speakers
Mission 70 speakers
Yamaha KX-580 cassette deck
Beyerdynamic T51i headphones
Beyerdynamic T1 (second gen) headphones
Little Dot 1+ headphone amplifier
Little Dot Mk 2 headphone amplifier
Beyerdynamic A20 headphone amplifier
FiiO x5iii portable digital player
Arcam irDac 2 DAC for sorting out all the digital stuff

Better stop there as people will think I'm a hardware junkie.