Yup, doing the same thing. Just bought a KAB EV1 and some RRL. Am listening to a lot of my older stuff, plus buying used, mainly at the thrifts. My most expensive used purchase has been $3 I believe. All others have been $1 or less, with 90% at 50 cents and quite a few for 35 cents! Have probably bought 35-40 albums in the past 5-6 weeks for about $25. I would say that about 3-4 at most are unplayable, 30-35% are mint following a cleaning and the balance sound very good with minimal surface noise following a good cleaning. I'm finding it difficult to listen to CD's when the vinyl sounds so good.
Anyone rediscovering their old LP's?
I collected hundreds of LP's in the 70's and 80's. I bought a huge jazz collection from a professor who was converting to CD's in the late 80's, also frequented used record stores and bought, bought, bought back then. Also, had some friends who gave me their entire LP collections. Anyway, I never did much LP cleaning in those years other than sometimes a discwasher job. Plus, the Linn dogma then was to let the stylus clean your LP's.
Anyway, after a decade or more funk caused by the sorry sound of CD's, I just upgraded my 80's vintage LP-12, bought an ARC amp, Maggie Speakers and the biggest surprise of all: a VPI 16.5 and jug of RRL juice.
These records are coming alive. After reading many of the rcm posts here on Audiogon, I was dubious about saving my LP's and assumed most of my collection was unlistenable due to poor care. Wrong. I'm listening to stuff I acquired 20 years ago from who knows where and in some cases never ever played. And they sound fantastic. Some are admittedly bad, but for every bad one there are 2 or 3 good ones and a gem or two.
Phoebe Snow just finished, gonna go and clean my half speed master of Marvin Gaye, Midnight Love. Haven't listened to it since the elder Bush was president.
Anyone else with similar thoughts?
Terry
Linn LP12 Valhalla Circus Basik Adikt
VPI 16.5
Linn Ikemi CDP
Linn LK1 preamp
ARC 100.2
Magnepan MC-1's
Vandersteen 2wq sub
Anyway, after a decade or more funk caused by the sorry sound of CD's, I just upgraded my 80's vintage LP-12, bought an ARC amp, Maggie Speakers and the biggest surprise of all: a VPI 16.5 and jug of RRL juice.
These records are coming alive. After reading many of the rcm posts here on Audiogon, I was dubious about saving my LP's and assumed most of my collection was unlistenable due to poor care. Wrong. I'm listening to stuff I acquired 20 years ago from who knows where and in some cases never ever played. And they sound fantastic. Some are admittedly bad, but for every bad one there are 2 or 3 good ones and a gem or two.
Phoebe Snow just finished, gonna go and clean my half speed master of Marvin Gaye, Midnight Love. Haven't listened to it since the elder Bush was president.
Anyone else with similar thoughts?
Terry
Linn LP12 Valhalla Circus Basik Adikt
VPI 16.5
Linn Ikemi CDP
Linn LK1 preamp
ARC 100.2
Magnepan MC-1's
Vandersteen 2wq sub
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