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

It Maybe a little strange to ask this question here since clearly this is a forum for folks still loving and using Vinyl.
So I am looking for some feedback from folks that play very little of their LPs these days and have decided to sell all of it (or already have). I have thought about it for years seems like a hassle trying to sell your TT and or your record collection, that is mainly why mine stays put (not because I use it).

Anyway if you have sold - (Not if you’re keeping it forever)

Have you regretted it?
Or is to nice to reduce the clutter and happily move on?

Some people would never sell their analog rig and collection, I get that.





dougsat
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uberwaltz
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I did once yes, probably like a few others I was seduced by the dark side.

That pesky lil silver disc, way of the future you know!
Well in the 80,s it sure seemed like it!

So yes I did but it did take some time to come to regret it.

Certainly did not regret it growing up with children and house moves but then CD just started to irritate me.

Bit the bullet and bought a cheap tt and a few albums, did nothing for me so lost interest and sold them again.
The mistake was the cheap TT!

Bug had bitten though so more research and back again with a mid fi tt and now sounding better.

And it has been an ever increasing spiral from there.

But that part could have happened whether I sold everything or not tbh.
drmemory62
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I mothballed my TT and donated over 2/3rds of my vinyl collection, around 1000 12 inch albums, to a charity called "Albums for Alzheimers" back in 2001.  I have never regretted donating the vinyl to a good cause...but after getting back into vinyl and investing in a good TT, tube preamp etc. etc. I've been rebuilding that vinyl collection for the last 8 years
emailists
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I have been toying with the idea of selling my 2500 LP collection to help fund a comedy feature film I’m doing.

I don’t play LPs as much as the digital front end, (PS Audio DS) but when I do I feel I’d regret selling the collection. There is just an fantastic intimacy there with the right LP.

i got into CD as an early adopter, then in the late 80’s got my first high end system (quad 63’s) and even with a cheap technics table I realized how amazing vinyl sounded and bought a used Well Tempered table.

I was was living in NY’s east village at the time and everyone was selling their vinyl for CD. I bought 2500 LPs at that time, many of them promo pressings, Japanese or Europe or quite a few MFSL that were being brought in by people in the music business selling their collections.

I now have them nicely displayed, alphabetically arranged in a wall unit.

The table is a 150 lb. TTweights momentus with graham Phantom II arm and soundsmith StrainGuage SG400 cart/phono stage all floating on a Halcyonics type active vibration isolation.

Hopefully I won’t have to sell it all, but celebrity actors don’t work for vinyl.
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