Fucking fun police is what I call it.![]()
Ha! I'm having fun with a used TT from the late '70s, bought recently. Sounds fun to me. So sue me, @Newman
I even measured it, and it is indeed, objectively much worse than a $200 DAC. And yet, I enjoy it. I bought it because I grew up listening to records and wanted to recall some of the memories from my childhood. Does that answer the OP question (for me, at least)?
I'm not a hippy, not anti-scicence nor anti-tech, never was into fads, and never wanted to be one of the "cool kids". I always went my own way. So sue me, @Newman, if I don't fit in to your profile of a typical LP user. From the purchase statistics posted upstream, I firmly fit into that last, large 55 and over category of purchasers.
My new rig sounds great to me, it's good enough to give me pleasure. What's more, my wife has come out of the kitchen to listen to LPs and even bought some herself (just kidding about the kitchen). Guess what? I also grew up listening to RTR tapes. Who knows, I may enjoy listening to these again, too. The horror!