First anniversary special - personal reflections

Welcome to the first of two special Hi-Fi hobbyist podcasts that celebrate our first anniversary.
The first sets out to reflect how the global trends and issues discussed in the podcast have impacted my own experiences with Hi-Fi at home, and influenced my buying choices.
Discussions of my own personal experience with Hi-Fi are generally dealt with in the shorter opinion pieces that you will find on the Hi-Fi hobbyist.net website.
However, for this anniversary special podcast, we will consider the elements within my main Hi-Fi system, which I refer to as my indulgent system, and reflect on how my buying choices are linked to the themes that I have explored over the last year of this podcast.
Only one of those components was produced by a manufacturer owned by one of my Hi-Fi heroes, and therefore, it seems appropriate to start with a discussion of my turntable, the Linn LP12, the product that launched the career of Ivor Tiefenbrun of Linn products.
With his well-known philosophy of source first, I hope he would agree!
The music accompanying this podcast was developed especially for it using Mureka AI software. It represents what AI thinks a baroque string quartet should sound like.

I'll let you decide if you agree!