@foamcutter
Did you sell your TT and album collection and did you regret it ?
Yes, I sold my turntable and vinyl in 2019, against my dealer’s advice.
Yes, I did regret it despite spending a lot of money to improve the digital side. "Don’t it always seem to go that you don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone."
Five years later I returned to vinyl, again against my dealer’s advice. This decision I don’t regret despite the cost. I can’t say how much I am enjoying it now. Absence made the heart grow stronger.
The turntable was easy to replace for much the same money as I sold it for.
The vinyl, however, was harder to replace because it was collected over several decades.
I estimate I may have lost as much £25,000 in value by selling the whole collection to a dealer as a job lot rather than listing the records individually on eBay. And I had to twist his arm to take them.
It was a massive mistake that I might not have made if I hadn’t been so focussed on a house move/downsize and undergoing major surgery at the time. I wish that I'd just put the records in the new loft for the time being - it wasn’t like I needed the paultry sum I got for them. They were already packed away in flight style cases so it wouldn’t have been difficult.