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Over a year since I listened to my vinyl collection so tonight I am going though them listening to some real classics, Ahhhh...... what a lovely smooth, open, acoustic, sound compared to compact disc.
 
Ohhhh Galaxy, don't say that. I'd just come to the conclusion, after weeks/months of indecision, to transfer all my vinyl to my computer. Now -well, I'm undecided all over again. :bonk: The trouble is I want my music in every room in the house and it ain't going to happen.
 
jeangenie said:
Ohhhh Galaxy, don't say that. I'd just come to the conclusion, after weeks/months of indecision, to transfer all my vinyl to my computer. Now -well, I'm undecided all over again. :bonk: The trouble is I want my music in every room in the house and it ain't going to happen.
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I had the full collection of mint first edition Beatles on Vinyl, so what did I do, I taped them all and sold them:cuckoo:.
If I had kept them they would have been worth some money, hindsight is a wonderful thing.
Transfer them to computer but don't get rid of them you will regret it...........needle clicking at end of side A so must go and change it over to side B now:D
 
Playing everything from Roy Orbison to the Moody blues.:banana:
 
I gave away most of my vinyl a few years ago but kept around 100 albums and at least 300 singles.
Stored them all in the garage in a wall cupboard to keep them pristine ... garage had a leak that I was unaware of during last wet & miserable summer.
Im still sulking now! :'(
 
InaGlo said:
I gave away most of my vinyl a few years ago but kept around 100 albums and at least 300 singles.
Stored them all in the garage in a wall cupboard to keep them pristine ... garage had a leak that I was unaware of during last wet & miserable summer.
Im still sulking now! :'(
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I can't imagine how you felt when you discovered that, I have had a few spoilt through dampness in the past and that upset me, once fungus gets to them you can't clean it off.
I still have the Beatles collection on vinyl but they are not originals they are re-pressings still worth a bit as they were bought as a collection in a blue presentation box.
I was lucky enough to come across a dealer who had bought the entire stock of a bankrupt record shop and I bought IIRC about 50 brand new unplayed albums with mint covers and still have some that I have not listened to yet.
 
I was only sorting through my vinyl collection the other day and wondering what to do with it as I don't have a record player anymore, and I've replaced most of them with CD's, but I don't really want to part with it :shrug:
You don't get the same thrill from taking a CD out of its case... or is that just me?? :lol:
 
I sold some speakers to a bloke a while back. He was buying them because his house got hit by those floods a while back.

He was telling me how he'd lost about 6000 albums. All damaged in the flood water.

You can replace hifi bits, but 6000 albums ????

Can you imagine that ?
 
Galaxy66 said:
I had the full collection of mint first edition Beatles on Vinyl, so what did I do, I taped them all and sold them:cuckoo:.
If I had kept them they would have been worth some money, hindsight is a wonderful thing.
Transfer them to computer but don't get rid of them you will regret it...........needle clicking at end of side A so must go and change it over to side B now:D
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Yeah, I take you point. But special vinyls are only worth what you sell them for. If they sit in a box somewhere they're 'worth' nothing. I don't think we've got anything valuable, except maybe a limited pink edition of 'Elvis' 40 greatest'. But most of them go back to the 60s - singles with plastic inserts because I bought them cheap when they got chucked off juke boxes, and stuff like that.


Could you turn the volume up a bit so I can hear Orbison and the Moody Blues, please? :) I don't think I'll ever grow out of being a rock chick - albeit the oldest one in town. :lol:
 
were in the middle of moving to a smaller flat and im wondering whether to take my vinyl collection with me or not... some 200 albums, ive had them for 20yrs plus
 
jeangenie said:
I don't think we've got anything valuable, except maybe a limited pink edition of 'Elvis' 40 greatest'.
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Got that :)


knb25965 do you still play them? if not they are wasted space.


Any HiFi buff will tell you that vinyl gives a better sound, partly because the music on CD is clipped towards the top and bottom of the spectrum to save space and partly because while a CD is digital, the music has to be converted back to analogue so we can hear it and any conversion process affects the output.
 
Steep said:
Got that :)


knb25965 do you still play them? if not they are wasted space.


havent played for a while but i just cant bear to part with them as i keep thinking that they will be worth something one day........
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I was listening to meatloaf talking on the radio about recording bat out of hell a few weeks back, he said he recorded the album got it exactly how he wanted it and gave it to the sound engineers.

they came back and said it's too long we can't fit it on, do you want it loud, yes, well we definitely can't fit it on a single LP then so they had to speed it up a bit which is why it sounds different when played live.

I recently bought a S/H turntable from a car boot for £2 to listen to some old albums I had in the attic, I was amazed how warm they sounded, much better than Cds
 
Borats Baby said:
I sold some speakers to a bloke a while back. He was buying them because his house got hit by those floods a while back.

He was telling me how he'd lost about 6000 albums. All damaged in the flood water.

You can replace hifi bits, but 6000 albums ????

Can you imagine that ?
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so Vinyl is not waterproof....
 
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