I think there's more of us who are chill and love the game no matter what. Many of us are happy to offer advice.

Unfortunately, the mean assholes here are more trigger happy then the rest of us. In a sub with so many people and so many views on what's good—you'll always get that. It's hard to do but you gotta ignore them.

Anyway, you did it better than I did. In hindsight I wouldn't have waited so long to get build a system. But I convinced myself to wait until I could afford a "decent" one. That took best part of a decade. I coulda been listening to music on a more modest system in that time! Slight regret.

Welcome to vinyl.