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Why Do You Still Have Vinyl if You Don't Play it?

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I own 3,000 plus lp's that I just don't play anymore. I told my 14 year-old son that he can have them when he starts college. He said no thanks, he said that he can carry around that much music in his back pocket in his iPod. I tried to explain to him that if he played LP's in college, he'd easily be one of the coolest students on campus. He told me to "get real" and thanks, but no thanks. I think I just may have to go through the task of grading each LP and selling them off. I've tried to convince myself that I will one day play them. I was just fooling myself. For the last fifteen years, I play one or two LP's a year just for the hell of it. I do like looking at them in their Ikea racks and marvel how I assembled my collection over nearly 40 years. I do like it when visitors comment on them and look through them. Cd's killed my vinyl and now my Squeezebox is finally going to bury it.

How many of you still have a sizeable vinyl collection that you don't play, but refuse to let go of?

I think it's time for me to let go.
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mitch4t
elizabeth
6,726 posts
 
I went to no vinyl right after CDs arrived.
About eleven years ago i decided to go back. Lucky for me i did then as it was 'before' the big surge back to vinyl. So i was able to amass a great collection before the prices of used stuff shot up, and all the rare stuff was gone.
I listen some of the time. But CDs are so easy to use.
And since i found a way to make the Cd sound palitable, i am even more on CDs.
I still go buy used LPs locally.
Just found a near perfect six eye stereo Lambert Hendricks and Ross for $3.00
tan43
128 posts
 
My collection also goes back many years. I have reduced my collection of close to 10,000 down to about 5,000.
I think I hold on to many of mine because of the nostalgia.
I still get up some days and decide to play only vinyl.
I also plan to take photos of many of them before parting with more.
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rhyno
642 posts
 
i have one regret in this hobby (plenty of mistakes, but one regret)

selling my vinyl.

i justify it by saying i dont have space for it (i dont), but as good as my digital rig is, its not vinyl.
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zmanastronomy
738 posts
 
Mitch, listen to these people.
Don't do it.
macdadtexas
1,794 posts
 
Mitch, with such a stellar rig, why don't you love your vinyl?

It's not the playback system, which is great, so it's process. If you don't love the process, you should get rid of it. Since you have had them so long, I would take the time to grade them and sell them off to someone who values them more.

Since you were going to give them to your son, and he didn't want them, you could use some of the proceeds to give him a great small college rig (Wyred4SoundDAC2, Paradigm Active 20's, AppleTV, Definitive Tech SuperCube III) that can play all of his digital files.

Anyway, hope you put some for sale that I can buy!
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