Just fitted a new stylus to my turntable. It's like going from DVD to Blu-ray!  I'm even tempted to say it's like going from VHS to UHD Blu-ray. 

(For the geeks, it's a 54 year old Thornes TD150 Mk 2 turntable, with the original tone arm and original Shure M75E Type 2 cartridge.  It was my father's originally; still have the receipt and paperwork for it, although it's probably out of warranty now.)

Quoting scotthm:

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I had occasion to replace my vintage stylus recently too.  When I pulled my old Sony PS-X600 turntable out of storage a few months ago all it would produce was static.  I replaced the stylus on my Shure  V15 Type V-MR cartridge and now it sounds wonderful again.

I bought these new around forty years ago, but they'd been in storage for almost twenty years.  I decided it was time to put an end to that.

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Yay, another believer returns to the fold.    But "in storage"?!    "Twenty years"?!    I can't recall ever being that cruel to my turntable, although I admit that many years ago it did spend a year under a bed; (along with my entire collection of cacti (and other succulents) in cardboard boxes and thus entirely deprived of light and water - some I still have to this day as most managed to survive the ordeal and now live in comparative paradise on my living room window sill)!    Old turntables are great, because they can still genuinely compete with modern ones; as a person who's recently become eligible for a UK Senior Railcard, I appreciate that.

With the resurgence of vinyl over the past few years, I've recently made the effort to get my turntable looking and working as it should again.  I'm now wondering if I need to get my old VHS recorder out and restore it to its pride of place in the cabinet by the TV - the space is still there, although a small Blu-ray player I use for CDs is presently squatting it; at the moment the VHS machine is languishing on the floor under my computer, on the off-chance I might want to digitise a VHS tape.  It lost its home as it never really got on with my current TV, it would either give me the picture or the sound, but never both at the same time - SCART to HDMI via my amp seems to involve some sort of 'new physics' presently beyond human understanding. 

Quoting SpikyCactus:

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But "in storage"?!    "Twenty years"?!    I can't recall ever being that cruel to my turntable

It sounds worse than it is.  It's been in a closet of a spare bedroom since about 2004.

I really haven't taken to buying vinyl again (too expensive), but I have quite a few LPs already that I haven't listened to in years and thought I'd like to give them a spin.

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Well, so far the RecordScanner app has failed to identify only a couple of the 300 or so albums I have done so far. So, no need to scan convers (other than a 2 sec cellphone scan to power the search) or do any typing. I usually have multiple cover images to pick from the Discogs library, and all the metadata comes over. Most of the folk, rock, jazz, blues, and R&B - i.e., non-classical albums are found directly on Spotify. No need even for digitizing, since the source material is identical.

In the case of classical, I very often get close cousins to my albums, but at this stage of my life, I am happy to just be able to listen to my favorites and recall my life and times when I first discovered that music and was listening to it more frequently.

My main goal is to sell as much of my collection as possible to get a few more retirement dollars to spend on golden years activities.