Has anyone finally decided to sell their Turntable and Vinyl collection?

Great story @brucenitroxpro!

My issue is not getting rid of my collection but culling out the excess. I’m a hardened vinyl lover at this point and I still have the LPs from most of the key phases of my youth, like the copy of Rubber Soul I used to listen to while coloring in a book with crayons (it does not sound very good now).

Recently I went through a 3 or 4 year phase of buying new records, some of them cheap and some very pricey. Great time of exploration, but I now I find there are more records on the wall than I really like to have. I don’t need a collection for collecting’s sake. And because we now have vast digital libraries at our fingertips (w/ monthly rental fee) it doesn’t make much sense (to me) to have more LPs than you’re realistically going to listen to or refer to in some way. But on the other hand I don’t have a good way of distinguishing between the good and the not so good. Marie Kondo doesn’t seem to work on an old mid-grade Billie Holiday recording from the 70s. 

I just pulled out my old copy of Blood on the Tracks and man did it sound crummy. Just dull and lifeless and muddy. Could be the LP itself I guess. So bad that I tossed it in the cull bin.

It makes me wonder - what Dylan LPs sound the best? Putting aside artistic value, how do they rank to audiophiles?

I’ll say that Shot of Love is a great sounding record in my system. gutsy but clear and you really hear the room. I love playing it. Also Nashville Skyline sounded good last time I heard it but that was a long time and many upgrades ago.

Oops posted about Bob Dylan in the wrong thread! Haha should have gone to bed. My sincere apologies

I'm with @prof on this question. For me the joy of audio is a lot about cultivating my ability to focus on sound. Vinyl grabs my attention in a way that digital never has. It feels like an actual event happening while digital reproduction feels like just the picture of an event, no matter how 'accurate'. And now that i think of it, the experience of handling vinyl albums may also facilitate that focus. I am one of those people who find digital libraries to be distracting. It's sort of like dating in New York city - the  amount of choice is so overwhelming that it keeps you from ever landing in one place. The dirty little secret of life and audio is that limitations can be productive. total freedom is really a mixed bag.