Vinyl is back for good and that’s exciting
fyi Vinyl is back for good and that’s exciting https://www.theguardian.com/co
I have no doubt we have different standards :) and I sure can appreciate your taste, collection and budget. Yes, I shop at goodwill, shopgoodwill.com, ebay, discogs, used record stores in very ethnic neighborhoods with thick metal bars on the windows. Yes, it can be/will be junk. But my 10 best sounding records were ALL under $10. And I have a pile of records I thought I could sell for 15-30-50 bucks, based on "market value" - not a single offer
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You got me all wrong. I’m no LP snob. I just don’t buy records in less than mint physical condition. That means no LPs from Goodwill or yard sales have ever qualified. At CAF I bought a dozen used LPs from a trusted vendor at $10 each, all mint. And he marked them down to $5 each. But while there, I saw, for example, that complete Mosaic sets, of which I have 9 or 10 accumulated over 30 years or so, were on sale from the same vendor, for $500 each. |
Buying vinyl is way over my budget... I dont listen to 500 albums merely ... I like to explore... Some albums i listened 1000 times, ( how is a vinyl state after few hundred listenings ? ) some others i like to listen to them few times... But i like to own them , and i cannot afford a 20,000 bucks system with 10,000 albums... I must choose ... I had chosen a 1000 buks system speakers+headphones, TOP one for his price ...And i am happy and it is not a stopgap... Now how do you keep 10,000 cd or vinyls ? Answer : a room for them , it takes one wall of a small thirteen feet room for 2,500 cd or vinyl on each walls ... Now i like books ...And i had more all my life than cds ... Another room ....or two.... Where did i put my system ? In a dedicated acoustic room with no books nor my 10,000 albums for sure ... Three rooms and i had no room here for my 2 children yet ... I prefer lossless files... My children are gone but even with a smaller house, i do not have anymore my past dedicated room ... I ggo down to 500 paper books ... But all my cd were transfered on files all along the last 20 years... Happily ... Because i dont have the space now in a small house for two ... And now imagine the cost of a competite vinyl system ? In low cost system digital beat easily vinyl... In high end if i listen mike lavigne and i listen to him because i trust him , vinyl is better ... i will stay with a low cost completely satisfying system ...😁😊 With no frustration because trust me it sound minimally very satisfying ... But there is no truth here, we have all our needs ... |
@lewm I didn't think or mean you are a snob. (More like: I am a slob) |
