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do you own or still play vinyl ?
my collection of many hundreds of singles,LPs and 12" languish in a cupboard at my mum's. ...
though i have a tiny number that i have bought over the last years here in London, these remain unplayed. |
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Yes, I do.
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Yes, I prefer the experience of putting a record on the turntable to putting a CD in the drive. Playing or streaming digital files is much less fun if you listen on a hi-fi with proper speakers.
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Many of those brought up on vinyl will tell you that it's the best format for the reproduction of music. But that's subjective. I think it has a lot to do with nostalgia for older people and is now a novelty for younger enthusiasts, many born in the age of CDs.
Very sophisticated turntables, pick-up arms and cartridges are still being produced as are valve amplifiers. You can pay many thousands of pounds for such equipment and lots of enthusiasts, particularly in the USA still do. Part of the enjoyment is the "anticipation," of hearing the stylus tracking in before the music starts. To expand on perception, in my youth I had a Trio amp, a decent record deck and speakers, but I'd always agree that some records, particularly one of a girl-friend of mine, Lesley Gore's "It's My Party." sounded best on her cheap Dansette record player (they're worth a few bob if you can find one). I still play vinyl occasionally on my vintage hifi equipment, as well as CDs and mp3s on a memory stick, either through a TVs sound bar or my old hifi. Some of my vintage jazz LPs I've had to replace with CDs as I wore them out. Vinyl emotes quite a bit of nostalgia. for me, It's at it's best like this, one of my several hobbies. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wIaVfQT84S8 Modern technology meets vintage equipment. It keeps the "vinyl age" alive, without the vinyl if you see what I mean. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIjaHH-qbPU |
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I do. I was born in the post-vinyl era, really, but as a mad Queen fan from infancy my uncle gave me his Queen records and my neighbour gave me her old player.
Cue about 20 years of modest collecting, until my entire collection was stolen last summer... Gutted isn't the word. So I've been building it back up, though it's a pain in the backside that they're "in" at the moment and thus I'm shelling out a fair bit for the pleasure. |
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I still have loads of vinyl, don't actually play it much.
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I still have loads of vinyl, don't actually play it much.
With some of them, the lasting "allure" is as much with the covers, which can be an art form in themselves. I'm always amused by this photograph from a USA based music appreciation message board. From the days when "Vinyl was king." Old ladies stuffing the Beatles "Rubber Soul" LPs into sleeves in a record factory. http://i1120.photobucket.com/albums/...s3rmr08f2.jpeg |
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No. For better or worse I recently binned them all, along with all the cassettes and VHS tapes I owned. I didn't have many of them, and they were all bought between about '87 and '91 (when I started buying CDs). They hadn't been played for many years. The few that I still cared about had long since been replaced by the CD version.
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No. For better or worse I recently binned them all, along with all the cassettes and VHS tapes I owned. I didn't have many of them, and they were all bought between about '87 and '91 (when I started buying CDs). They hadn't been played for many years. The few that I still cared about had long since been replaced by the CD version.
Unless it's a "first issue" of a record and usually you never buy them in the first place as the first run can be sold out before you even know it's available, they aren't worth anything. Popular LPs from thirty years ago are often available for around a pound on e-Bay, but few sell. Even if they did, then it's not even worth the effort to list them. I still buy the occasional 7" single for my jukeboxes, but most available on e-Bay are worn out. I get mine from from the USA. They are un-played reissues of popular recordings, made for the jukebox industry, that ended up in warehouses a couple of decades ago when jukeboxes changed to CDs and were no longer required. |
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I used to hate vinyl. Probably because I was often careless with it and it got scratched and so the records used to jump. I sold the majority of mine, except rare stuff and some coloured vinyl's and picture discs, some of which I still do have because of their potential value. I reverted to cassettes and then CD's at the first available opportunity. I've always wanted to hear the cleanest, crispest sound possible, not something all crackly.
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My mid-life crisis purchase was a Linn turntable. Along with the vintage Quad amp and Tannoy speakers that must be kicking 30 years old my vinyl collections sounds absolutely, bloody FANTASTIC !
I also own an inordinate number of CD's, have around 750Gb of mp3's and use Spotify, but nothing beats listening to music from the 50's/60's/70's on vinyl. Luckily, as teenagers both myself and my wife (although we didn't meet till we were 23) were very anal about treating vinyl carefully so our combined collection is in pretty good nick. That said, on a Saturday night, after a few drinks, it is mp3's only. Drink can wreck an album, destroy a stylus and no one should approach a record deck under the influence. |
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Probably the best thing to do is to bin them, if you can bring yourself to do it.
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My mid-life crisis purchase was a Linn turntable. Along with the vintage Quad amp and Tannoy speakers that must be kicking 30 years old my vinyl collections sounds absolutely, bloody FANTASTIC !
I also own an inordinate number of CD's, have around 750Gb of mp3's and use Spotify, but nothing beats listening to music from the 50's/60's/70's on vinyl. Luckily, as teenagers both myself and my wife (although we didn't meet till we were 23) were very anal about treating vinyl carefully so our combined collection is in pretty good nick. That said, on a Saturday night, after a few drinks, it is mp3's only. Drink can wreck an album, destroy a stylus and no one should approach a record deck under the influence. The problem I have always found with vinyl on a conventional turntable, is that you only want to play certain tracks on one side of a record, this requires the lifting of the arm, which with my turntable is by pressing a rocker switch, moving the arm across by hand and then setting it down by pushing the rocker switch the other way. This is a task fraught with danger after the consumption of a few drinks. At least with a jukebox, the only time you needed to touch a record, was when you were changing the selections by adding a new record to the carousel. It's so easy now to stick a memory stick with a few thousand mp3s in a TV and choose tracks with your remote control. "But it ain't the same." |
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yes..
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I started collecting vinyl a few years ago and never looked back. My only annoyance that if you want newer albums by current artists on vinyl you get charged an arm and a leg for the honour.
For years and years I was listening to digital music on my computer exclusively, chucked out all my CDs, but I missed the feeling of owning a product, something I just don't feel when buying digital music from iTunes or Amazon. I plan on rebuilding my CD collection when I have more room. Digital music ultimately just isn't the same for me. I need to "see" and "hold" the product. |
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i have thousands of records and a dj setup and a hifi setup, but rarely use either as i prefer cd as a format as it's crackle and click and hiss free and no speed variances. i use the hifi turntable to ripping records to the computer and the dj setup for playing old 12"s from time to time
i have a couple of great setups so having a source that's free of all the problems of vinyl makes a big difference to me. being able to load up all the tracks i want on the computer and just play them without mucking about is great too, and being able to change the running order or add and delete tracks on the fly is great too likewise djing from a laptop instead of carrying piles of heavy records is much better. in one bag i can have everything i need to dj and a change of clothing and have every track i could possibly want to play |
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Many of those brought up on vinyl will tell you that it's the best format for the reproduction of music. But that's subjective. I think it has a lot to do with nostalgia for older people and is now a novelty for younger enthusiasts, many born in the age of CDs.
Very sophisticated turntables, pick-up arms and cartridges are still being produced as are valve amplifiers. You can pay many thousands of pounds for such equipment and lots of enthusiasts, particularly in the USA still do. Part of the enjoyment is the "anticipation," of hearing the stylus tracking in before the music starts. Quote:
Probably the best thing to do is to bin them, if you can bring yourself to do it.
Unless it's a "first issue" of a record and usually you never buy them in the first place as the first run can be sold out before you even know it's available, they aren't worth anything. Popular LPs from thirty years ago are often available for around a pound on e-Bay, but few sell. Even if they did, then it's not even worth the effort to list them. I still buy the occasional 7" single for my jukeboxes, but most available on e-Bay are worn out. I get mine from from the USA. They are un-played reissues of popular recordings, made for the jukebox industry, that ended up in warehouses a couple of decades ago when jukeboxes changed to CDs and were no longer required. Never Turn Your Back on a Friend - Budgie And that is just one example, so to say there is no value in old vinyl isn't true. |
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I wouldn't necessarily say that is true. I never got rid of my vinyl collection simply because to replace it, assuming a CD version was available, would have cost several thousands of pounds.
I disagree completely that "they aren't worth anything". i was in a secondhand vinyl shop recently and they have a copy of Budgie's 1973 album Never Turn Your Back On A Friend for £30! A quick search on Amazon.com showed... Never Turn Your Back on a Friend - Budgie And that is just one example, so to say there is no value in old vinyl isn't true. My point was that the records most people have, are those that sold in their millions, so are not worth anything. But it's the same with anything, if you've something of which much fewer quantities were sold, particularly if they are by some little known artist, or have a contemporary "cult" following, then they can fetch some money, but they are the exception. |
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My point was that the records most people have, are those that sold in their millions, so are not worth anything. But it's the same with anything, if you've something of which much fewer quantities were sold, particularly if they are by some little known artist, or have a contemporary "cult" following, then they can fetch some money, but they are the exception.
Take The Jimi Hendrix Experience's Electric Ladyland, which got to #6 in the UK album chart and #1 in the American Billboard Top 200 Album chart, so hardly a "rare" album... JIMI HENDRIX, Electric ladyland Nude cover, gatefold sleeve. 1968.UK Pressing. Polydor Two for sale, 1 priced at £82, the other at £395. |
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Because there was such a rush to ditch vinyl once CDs came out a lot of even quite common albums have attained commercial value now, you would be surprised.
Take The Jimi Hendrix Experience's Electric Ladyland, which got to #6 in the UK album chart and #1 in the American Billboard Top 200 Album chart, so hardly a "rare" album... JIMI HENDRIX, Electric ladyland Nude cover, gatefold sleeve. 1968.UK Pressing. Polydor Two for sale, 1 priced at £82, the other at £395. I don't want to "lock antlers," over this but that just proves my point, it depends on which pressing. A look on e-Bay shows the same recording at all sorts of prices, depending on that factor. Not all of them will sell. http://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_fr...p2045573.m1684 Here's one that did sell for twenty-three quid. "new old stock," as we say. Used LPs sold under "completed listings," can be found, some cheaper, some more expensive. http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/JIMI-HENDR...item51d256847c |
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I don't want to "lock antlers," over this but that just proves my point, it depends on which pressing.
A look on e-Bay shows the same recording at all sorts of prices, depending on that factor. Not all of them will sell. http://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_fr...p2045573.m1684 Here's one that did sell for twenty-three quid. "new old stock," as we say. Used LPs sold under "completed listings," can be found, some cheaper, some more expensive. http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/JIMI-HENDR...item51d256847c That is why charity shops now regularly seek the advice of valuers for all of the vinyl donated to their shops, they have certainly cottoned on to that fact. |
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And my point was that to just say throw the lot because "they aren't worth anything" is unwise because many records are worth far more than it might at first appear.
That is why charity shops now regularly seek the advice of valuers for all of the vinyl donated to their shops, they have certainly cottoned on to that fact. Ninety-nine percent of old vinyl isn't worth anything. There aren't "many" that are. |
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Yes. In fact my turntable hadn't been working for some time and on seeing this thread decided to devote a good chunk of yesterday p.m. to getting it operational again. Success! Listened to an album yesterday and keen to give the others a run through. Don't own many but I've no intention whatsoever of getting rid of those I do - why would I?
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Yes. In fact my turntable hadn't been working for some time and on seeing this thread decided to devote a good chunk of yesterday p.m. to getting it operational again. Success! Listened to an album yesterday and keen to give the others a run through. Don't own many but I've no intention whatsoever of getting rid of those I do - why would I?
What I'd really like is a vintage Magnavox Astrosonic, these could cost as much as a small car in the late fifties and early sixties, but become part of a house contents inherited by grandkids, who don't want them and they end up in thrift shops, "free at the kerb," or even in skips. But with a bit of attention and the amplifier re-capped they can become as good as new. Trouble is, you'd have to live in the USA to find one. Some early models had a remote control which was a bellows which worked a reed! These machines are well loved, given the number of YouTube uploads by their owners. This one new to the owner, looks like one that has yet to be overhauled but is still working after nearly fifty years. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TzZb7mwNDi4 |
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Still in boxes in my mums loft for the last 15 years. Keep meaning to have a runnage around and see what I have giot.
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