LP Records

I also maintain my collections of vinyl (and CDs). Mine is more modest, maybe a third of your collection. I still spin these once in awhile... but generally I listen to streaming on YouTube, Google Music, and Pandora. But it's nice to break out the LPs every so often.

I'm on my second turntable since 1975: another B&O purchased around 1994 (this one lacks the rosewood base but has a tangential arm). Yes, not quite audiophile but I like that it turns itself off, and the tracking force/mass has no comparison. I have been tempted to upgrade it.

It's funny how the golden-eared listeners (mostly jazz and classical) hopped on CDs first. Then later the golden-ears reverted back to a much higher level of vinyl. Myself, I just can't see $20,000 turntables (and even more)...then you need the cartridge on top of that. Or the cables that cost like $100 a foot. For my original 1975 Klipsch Heresy II speakers I just use... well, I was using lamp cord but "recently" I did get some speaker wire with oxygen-free copper.

I agree that within a generation or so (the 25 years) there will be very little vinyl. It will likely be the province of super rich eccentrics. (as those $50,000 turntables are now).

Keep up the good "fight"!   🙂

I think that the current vinyl fad is only for a few serious collectors, and music purists. It takes up a lot of space, and then there is the turntable set up to deal with.

We ditched our vinyl and turntable some years ago. It's just much easier to wi-fi from the computer to the receiver. It also allows the flexibility to create a variety of playlists, which I enjoy doing. Can't say that I miss the vinyl, but I haven't shed all of the CDs yet, even though I have most of them digitized now. There are some that are worth playing all the way through on the CD player that is next to the receiver.

I still have most of my old vinyl records. I buy new ones, too. I'm not sure how many I have because I've never counted them.  I just go by how much space they take 😁

I have three turntables but I only have one of them hooked up right now. It's an Onkyo and it sounds really good.

I have several collector's LPs in vinyl.  It's a format I prefer, not just for the superior sound, but also for the wonderful artwork in the covers and the interesting production quirks.  For example, my Police albums, when held up to the light, reflect different colors, and on all of Kate Bush's albums there is a "KT" symbol hidden away, either in the art or in the vinyl.

Some albums/singles have secret messages etched into the vinyl, for example, on Kate Bush's single "The Man with the Child in His Eyes," the message is "The child hides in the light."

I miss those days, sitting around with my friends and a magnifying glass to discovers all an album's secrets.

I used to be a collector and player of vinyl. I belonged to the Keystone Record Collectors of Central PA. At one point, I had over 10,000 45s and 3000 LPs. 

Time and space became an issue and made the stupid decision to sell it all. Worst decision ever.

I passed on my love of vinyl along to my youngest son and enjoy doing some searching for him.

What’s interesting is that millennials account for most of the sales.  I still buy vinyl and listen mostly on a weekend when I’m relaxing. I tend to buy LP’s that I never owned or to hear something different. There something magical when the needle hits the groove, especially with a glass of bourbon. 

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Thomas @ThomasT561081 , at age 67 I now wish I had hung onto my LPs.

Sadly like alot of oldsters, we have downsized over the years for various reasons.

Mine was usually relocations starting at age 20 (St. Louis, Missouri to Florida). Lol, was NOT much space in my 1st car - a Honda Civic Hatchback. Yes, one day got tired of freezing my you know what, quit my job with Ozark Airlines (was a Flight Attendant), and drove non-stop to Florida.

Oh well, the memories are still there. Hours of bliss!!

As far as buying them, nope - I am at a stage in life of keeping things simple. Turning on an oldies radio station works for me.

Nicole!