Do You Regret Selling Your Turntable and Albums ?


I"m out of room for hobbies and we will likely be moving to a smaller home. I don't want to wait until the last minute to sell things. That didn't work out well last time we moved. Time to downsize. Again.

I enjoy streaming music and haven't played vinyl in over a year. Did you sell your TT and album collection and did you regret it ?

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No.  I still have them but haven't played a vinyl album in decades.  My digital sounds great and I don't want to accumulate any more stuff.

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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.

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I sold my turntable and nearly all of my albums years ago. This was the Linn LP12, Ittok, Pink Link and whatever MC cartridge I was using at the time. I was tuning my system to the digital formats. My brother found an old TD150 that used to be mine. I did have a play with that after setting it up. Just no the same. These days it's pure streaming. I'm used to the wide bandwidth, dynamics and bottomless bass now so It's doubtful if I'll ever go back. I am still surprised how good albums sound considering the atrocious specs. I guess I'm a convert.  

No regrets at all.  Only streaming and part time CD's these days.  Have some cassettes in storage.