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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
ballywho
134 posts
 
Let me add that I have a relatively large collection of 78's dating from the early oughts (or is it aughts?). These I will *not* be getting rid of, if not solely for historical reasons. There's something about these discs and the music on them that will always fascinate me... And they're all perfectly flat! Something that just can't seem to be mastered, even in 2011. I guess that's good ol' shallac for ya.

Cheers,
Mark
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mapman
15,679 posts
 
Ballywho,

I have some old 78's also that I recorded to CD and then ripped to music server. I bought an old Admiral ceramic cart record player that plays 78's for $10 at a yard sale. Then I used my Denon recorder to burn to CD. Then I ripped to music server like any other CD.

The recordings are pretty good. The sound of the 78s comes through, flaws and all, but the sound is similar to what I've heard recently when a dealer played me several old 78s on several restored Victolas, minus perhaps some of the artificial horn speaker artifacts that gives an actual Victrola an authentically appealing touch of warmth.

These are a lot of fun and very enjoyable to listen to at a touch of a button off the music server! A nice mix of teh old and new!
ballywho
134 posts
 
I have plans to do that very thing. I just haven't gotten around to it. Having those tunes on hand like all the other music in the house will be real nice, not to mention the peace of mind knowing that it's *finally* been archived after 100 years!
mrtennis
3,295 posts
 
i have about 1500 lps. i don't play them. it is somewhat inconvenient, i don't have a great phono stage or phono pre amp and i'm lazy.
khrys
446 posts
 
Dev, to paraphrase your own advice to Timrhu on 8/6/11, no disrespect but if you re-read my posting on 8/7/11 you'll find that you left something out. Namely the 6TB server fronted by a MacBook Pro/Amarra setup.

8/7/11 is after my post you pulled up from 7/15/11 expressing disatisfaction with the Sooloos so please explain to me what is so funny?

And yes the Sooloos will be for sale as soon as I transfer all the data the RAID.

I'm glad you find yourself so amusing convoluting other people's posts. You should take your head out of your Stereotactic Device and get out a little more.

You have a great system. Why don't you post it on Virtual Systems as any pre-sexagenarian surely can do?
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