> My comment came from a place of love. I’m happy to see people going the extra mile. Myself, I just want to be chill at home and aim for a balanced providing me joy without headaches.

Reasonable, I am similar in those regards.

I just wanted to highlight that the border between reasonable technical features and audiophile snakeoil is at times not totally clear to draw.

There are e.g. quite expensive audio cables in pro audio as well, but there you pay for reliability and not for esoteric materials.

I like playing vinyls because there's something neat about interacting with a physical object representing the music. It gives a satisfaction that digital music, or even CDs, do not. I could not care less about the minutiae of the sound quality coming out of it. And that's okay.

Your comment makes me happy as I strongly believe interacting with analog enriches our senses and gives satisfaction.

I love the few seconds to minutes of fiduh-fiduh before someone realised and gets up to flip to the B side, or choose the next record. I think that's a nicer, more relaxing transition than any playlist or DJ could muster.

What’s the clone? Do you recommend it?