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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.





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wolf_garcia
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People dumping their vinyl rigs and albums seems like sort of pathetic news, and nearly unworthy of comment beyond the self congratulating "I still love my vinyl" responses...do the people abandoning analog want to feel better somehow? "Here's why I'm NOT doing something" is simply a "meh" thing, almost as lame as me saying I like having my vinyl around...it's there, and the only way to hear it is with my turntable...how interesting...wanna dump yer vinyl? Go right ahead...sit in the cloud with your dots and dashes and wonder what to do with the 8 square feet of space you added to the condo, and send that money to Qobuz until they go out of business and your digital storage gizmo dies...
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best-groove
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I think the problem is also due to the fact that like us in Italy the new houses or apartments are built ever smaller and the space becomes ever smaller; for this reason vinyls and turntables become bulky objects where a modern house cannot contain them and then liquid music and streaming are used.
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rvpiano
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I never abandoned vinyl.  When CDs first arrived I felt the vinyl sounded better, so why get rid of it.  Through the years, there has been a back and forth superiority between the sound of one medium and the other as I improved one component or another.
Now, they sound about equal with my current gear, so I’m happy.
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thefile
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"I sold my record collection last year, approximately 1,040 records, For now I kept 100 of my favorite records, I have been giving a lot of thought about selling the rest by the end of this year, VPI TNT JR, VPI Record cleaner, AR Phono amp and Extras, turned it on about 4 times this year, it is just collecting dust, there was a time when I was younger I would listed about 4 hours every evening but those days are long gone. "
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harrylavo
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rvpiano1 .... exactly.  It wasn't close in the late '80's early '90's.  Now I have my main system to the point that vinyl and sacd sound identical.  Looking ahead to this back in the 90's, I tried not to buy cd's that duplicated most of my vinyl collection .... Bob Dylan is perhaps the exception.  So I have a few that I can use to calibrate my system, but overall the two collections compliment one another.  1100 lp's and 1000+ cd's are enough .... both have their place, and both can be made to sound good (although some individual items never do.)
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