Why?
Cheers BB
My music collection is more valuable, as it should be.
It depends whether you prefer to listen to hifi or music. For me, the hifi is the means, and music is the ends. Your priorities, and those of your friends, may differ. Streaming changes the cost equation, but I'm not about to sell of my record collection anytime soon.Should it be? Obviously it won’t be in a streaming set up, but I’m not sure even in the days of physical it 'should' have been. I had friends with massive collections and crappy stereos, but also some with fabulous systems and a fairly small but very well considered CD collection. As ever there is no right or wrong.
Well I will approach it differently and say what percentage of my disposable income do I spend on hifi.
Used to be about 50% per month now I have to save up and only buy stuff when I sell something or save for a few months, rules out run up to Christmas or birthdays lol.
I think the percentage of income is not always a fair metric as some people earn good money but have significant overheads, where as another can earn less but have much lesser overheads
If I had no responsibilities, I could probably buy my current system with 1-1.5 months' income. Alas, I have plenty of responsibilities which re-cast that amount as worthy of a raised spousal eyebrow.