Rediscovering records

@newton_john “…those barren years…”

l took advantage of those barren years.

l specialise in original film soundtracks and CDs of classic film scores don’t cut it. There were opportunities that presented themselves. I managed to cherry pick from guys caving in, ditching their collections, who were sold by the appeal of the space age technology of the silver disc.

Part of my existing collection is made up of LPs from an author who was an authority on film score writing. Looking at their true value now, he must be wondering what a big mistake he made. He had taped some of them, to get his money back. 

The book was about Italian film composers and the first of its type. The soundtracks are now rare Italian 1960s and 1970s Cinevox, Cam, General Music, RCA and Japanese equivalents not available elsewhere. I couldn’t believe my luck. It was quite a short sighted mistake to just sell everything off. Quite a few on Audiogon have admitted doing the same. 
 

I was smitten by the analog  bug when I got my Rega P3 turntable pre-CD era.  I and my friends at the time were very unhappy with the SQ of CDs.  Records just sounded better. I never thought once of getting rid of them.

Of course I had to start  collecting the tiny discs because that’s where the majority of the new releases were.

I had purchased a high end Nakamichi CD player shortly after the CD came out. At the time... no pops, incredible bass. I plugged it in a few years ago... it was simply god awful. I mean sounded terribly screechy and horrible. No wonder I kept collecting vinyl. It was so bad, I just don't understand why I bought any. Granted my turntable and phonostage were not nearly what they were a few years later.

@mylogic 

You did well. 

@rvpiano 

I felt vinyl was better than CD, but my friends strongly disagreed. There were some quite heated arguments. 

I loved CD from the get go but I could barely afford them until the early nineties.  My LPs were trashed in a flood in the mid eighties and I spent about a decade listening to the radio.  Streaming would have been a Godsend.

  Of course it’s possible to get excellent sound from analog.  The vinyl replay equipment of today is much better than  back in the day and that helps.  It takes money to have an analog system that’s truly worthwhile, much more so than for digital.  Different strokes.