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Has anyone finally decided to sell their Turntable and Vinyl collection?

It Maybe a little strange to ask this question here since clearly this is a forum for folks still loving and using Vinyl.
So I am looking for some feedback from folks that play very little of their LPs these days and have decided to sell all of it (or already have). I have thought about it for years seems like a hassle trying to sell your TT and or your record collection, that is mainly why mine stays put (not because I use it).

Anyway if you have sold - (Not if you’re keeping it forever)

Have you regretted it?
Or is to nice to reduce the clutter and happily move on?

Some people would never sell their analog rig and collection, I get that.





dougsat
brucenitroxpro
23 posts
 
I donated my record collection (started at 1200 disks) to my older daughter, along with a good sound system. NOT because she couldn't afford a ROON system or such, but because I had a computerized list of what I truly admired about each and passed it on as one person's ideas. She could afford anything, but likes the essence of the gift as "more than a record collection." That means a lot to me.
Now, my TOOL collection is a different story... and will go eventually to a different daughter! LOL
jollytinker
213 posts
 
Great story @brucenitroxpro!

My issue is not getting rid of my collection but culling out the excess. I’m a hardened vinyl lover at this point and I still have the LPs from most of the key phases of my youth, like the copy of Rubber Soul I used to listen to while coloring in a book with crayons (it does not sound very good now).

Recently I went through a 3 or 4 year phase of buying new records, some of them cheap and some very pricey. Great time of exploration, but I now I find there are more records on the wall than I really like to have. I don’t need a collection for collecting’s sake. And because we now have vast digital libraries at our fingertips (w/ monthly rental fee) it doesn’t make much sense (to me) to have more LPs than you’re realistically going to listen to or refer to in some way. But on the other hand I don’t have a good way of distinguishing between the good and the not so good. Marie Kondo doesn’t seem to work on an old mid-grade Billie Holiday recording from the 70s. 
topecat
9 posts
 
 Any advice on selling huge volume of  Vinyl? Inherited 30,000 records and unable to catalog and sell myself.  Equipment liquidation is another topic i need to take up 


ebm
9,311 posts
 
I will NEVER get rid of my LPs they sound the best much better than streaming.I have many English Columbia records that are worth well over 1 thousand each plus they sound wonderful.I also have a turntable that worth over 30 thousand.Good luck with no records that will never me me.
qilin_maker
10 posts
 
Hello topecat, what part of the country do you live?
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