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What's Worth More on the Open Market - Your Records or Your Audio Gear

Have anyone of you actually calculated this ?

What's your personal ratio ?

I have not looked into this in any detail, and have if anything, only recently.....

Told family members (not my wife) 8^0..........something along the lines of ........." this piece of equipment is worth ......this (xxxx) ......." 

I have, told all family members that they could probably start an Ebay Record Selling Career; if their own career doesn't pan out.... with what is contained in the house. I don't think they are buying this idea ......right now.

This has me a little concerned.  

I assume the good records will only go up in value.  

Some gear I own, I believe is in this same state of fluctuating upward values.

Interested in your opinions, and findings on the subject.    Have you crossed this bridge yet ?  

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When the CD largely replaced the LP, the monetary value of non-collectable records dropped drastically. Mine retained their musical value to me, and I kept them all. I didn’t start buying CD’s until the music I wanted was available on that format alone. CD’s are now becoming worth pennies, but mine are worth a fortune to me---they contain an awful lot of great music. I’m keeping all them too.
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Don’t think I haven’t considered that scenario Chris! The top left cube contains (amongst others) The Animals, The Band, Count Basie, The Beach Boys, The Beatles, Chuck Berry, The Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band, T Bone Burnett, The Byrds, Johnny and Rosanne Cash, Carlene Carter, Patsy Cline, Ry Cooder albums. The one under it Rodney Crowell, Dylan, Dave Edmunds, The Everly Brothers, The Flamin’ Groovies, Fleetwood Mac, Aretha Franklin, Merle Haggard, Emmylou Harris, Dan Hicks, Chris Hillman.

Cube 1 or 2 is like choosing between your two kids!

My CD racks are worse. I have six 600 disc-capacity racks screwed together and secured to the wall. I do that now after having them come down during the Northridge earthquake. And they're full! Somehow the LP bookcases I had at the time stayed up.

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Exactly @slaw. If the house were burning down, and I had to choose which to save, no contest. The eq can be easily replaced, the music not.
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There's not enough available time in an average life to listen to 100,000 LP's even one time each.
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Exactly teo, depends on what records are in the collection. I took a box of some duplicates I had into Music Millennium and got $400 for about 2/3 of the contents. The MM buyers know what's collectable, are honest, and pay fairly.

One of my 7" 45 RPM singles (by The Nerves, a trio whose members were Peter Case---later in The Plimsouls and a solo artist, Paul Collins---later in the great Power Pop band The Beat, and Jack Lee. One of the songs on the single is the original version of Jack's song later covered by Blondie, "Hanging On The Telephone") alone fetched me a hundred bucks. Lots of 1950's Jazz LP's are worth good money, as are some small-pressing cult artist psych LP's, mis-pressings, Elvis' Sun Records 45's and 78's, soundtracks, and lots more.

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