Flogging off the vinyl?
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Having spent the last couple of hours surfing ebay - it appears that some of my record collection is now worth more than I originally paid for it. I have an early mono version of the Rolling Stones' Let it Bleed and a first pressing of Kraftwork's Autobahn just to name a couple.
Now I no longer play the stuff and have over 200 LPs taking up valuable cupboard space. Quite a lot of my favourite albums have been replaced by their CD counterpart.
So - do I bite the bullet and flog them off on ebay - or carry on storing them? I am inclined to flog them off while there are people out there willing to pay good money for them.
Views from the PH floor please.
Now I no longer play the stuff and have over 200 LPs taking up valuable cupboard space. Quite a lot of my favourite albums have been replaced by their CD counterpart.
So - do I bite the bullet and flog them off on ebay - or carry on storing them? I am inclined to flog them off while there are people out there willing to pay good money for them.
Views from the PH floor please.
Don't do it.
You're selling off your youth.
I still regret the day my brother sold my collection of Hornby trains. I soon spent the few quid they fetched and now regret it.
If you're not bothered, then think of your descendants. I had endless fun checking out my Gran's old 78's and my parent's collection of Herb Alpert...
Cheers
Pat
You're selling off your youth.
I still regret the day my brother sold my collection of Hornby trains. I soon spent the few quid they fetched and now regret it.
If you're not bothered, then think of your descendants. I had endless fun checking out my Gran's old 78's and my parent's collection of Herb Alpert...
Cheers
Pat
Big_M said:
How much would you want for the Kraftwerk?
Ben
You kidding me mate - they are going for about £8-£12 on ebay - what is wrong with the CD version
You're probably right, I dont even have a turntable but I think Kraftwerk are great (fathers of most modern music). Would be cool to have a first press of one of their more famous songs.
Ben (Forgetting he is a poor student!)
Wow - Just checked out one of my King Crimson LPs - Starless and Bible Black. One went for £186. Unfortunately my version is not on the rare Island label but the American import Atlantic label which only gets about £5.
Funny - everyone at school thought I had really weird tastes in music - Greenslade, Yes, King Crimson, Canned Heat. Bet their Bay City Rollers LPs are not worth as much.
Funny - everyone at school thought I had really weird tastes in music - Greenslade, Yes, King Crimson, Canned Heat. Bet their Bay City Rollers LPs are not worth as much.
Big_M said:
Wow - Just checked out one of my King Crimson LPs - Starless and Bible Black. One went for £186. Unfortunately my version is not on the rare Island label but the American import Atlantic label which only gets about £5.
Funny - everyone at school thought I had really weird tastes in music - Greenslade, Yes, King Crimson, Canned Heat. Bet their Bay City Rollers LPs are not worth as much.
wow! exactly what I was into then. Greenslade, ah nostalgia
Vinyl and the Decks to play them are enjoying a rebirth Big_M. The reason is simple played thru a good System they are superior to CD. You can put together a good vinyl system for a Grand. To get a similar level of quality from CD you need a Player that costs a Grand. The problem with CD is its limited bandwidth. 16 bit 44.1 Khz is the CD spec this HAS to be converted to an analogue signal as your ears would rebel otherwise. Think of a dot the dot puzzle. Doesn't make a lot of sense until you put the lines between them in the right order. Even then you would probably want to curve them to make the shape seem more "real". Good CD does this. Even better the 24 bit 192KHZ DVD-Audio and also SACD put more "dots" in so that the "curves" are plotted very accuratly. Vinyl doesn't have dots. It is pure "curves", hence a Good turntable, and I'm talking a Project, Rega, Linn, Gyrodeck etc with a decent arm and cartridge does a better job. Thats why your vinyl is climbing in value. It is BETTER.
Big_M said:
Wow - Just checked out one of my King Crimson LPs - Starless and Bible Black. One went for £186. Unfortunately my version is not on the rare Island label but the American import Atlantic label which only gets about £5.
Funny - everyone at school thought I had really weird tastes in music - Greenslade, Yes, King Crimson, Canned Heat. Bet their Bay City Rollers LPs are not worth as much.
Well, not all of them could afford a gramophone...
telecat said:
Vinyl and the Decks to play them are enjoying a rebirth Big_M. The reason is simple played thru a good System they are superior to CD. You can put together a good vinyl system for a Grand. To get a similar level of quality from CD you need a Player that costs a Grand. The problem with CD is its limited bandwidth. 16 bit 44.1 Khz is the CD spec this HAS to be converted to an analogue signal as your ears would rebel otherwise. Think of a dot the dot puzzle. Doesn't make a lot of sense until you put the lines between them in the right order. Even then you would probably want to curve them to make the shape seem more "real". Good CD does this. Even better the 24 bit 192KHZ DVD-Audio and also SACD put more "dots" in so that the "curves" are plotted very accuratly. Vinyl doesn't have dots. It is pure "curves", hence a Good turntable, and I'm talking a Project, Rega, Linn, Gyrodeck etc with a decent arm and cartridge does a better job. Thats why your vinyl is climbing in value. It is BETTER.
Actually Vinyl has a granular structure, and a finite bandwidth. But that doesn't matter, because a well-pressed record on a good system will still out-perform CD, not because of the bandwidth, but because of the non-linearity of the amplitude sampling.
Plotloss said:
Store them.
Selling records regardless of their status, price or anything else is the 8th sin...
Yep. I really regret just swapping some vinyl in the past, and I've lost a few bits over the years by being careless.
I'm still buying vinyl now, sometimes stuff that I've already got on CD but I'm a bit of a perv and like to have the original.
ge2 said:
Store them.
Selling records regardless of their status, price or anything else is the 8th sin...
Yep. I really regret just swapping some vinyl in the past, and I've lost a few bits over the years by being careless.
I'm still buying vinyl now, sometimes stuff that I've already got on CD but I'm a bit of a perv and like to have the original.
Seconded, thirded, fourthed etc etc....
You get the idea....
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