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

I'll start off with my selling of 18,000 records, mostly 78s over the past several decades.  I have a rule that if I don't potentially want to listen to a record 3 times annually, out it goes.  I still have 25,000 LPs, 7,000 78s and 7,000 CDs.  I want to sell 2,000 mint, mostly unplayed classical 78s from the 1930s and 1940s for $1,000.  I can't ship and am not going to list all the records.  They were purchased from someone who purchased but never listened to them (hence-mint).  I will never sell my ethnic and obscure LPs (many of which will never or cannot/lost tapes be duplicated into another format.  I love the well remastered CDs, particularly of 78 rpm vocal recordings where the acquisition, storage and playback requirements are burdensome (acoustics especially due to non-standard speeds and equalization).  

I didn't start collecting music until the early 90's, so I don't have a lot of vinyl as it wasn't readily available at that time. By 2010, when I bought my first serious analog gear, I had about 200 records and more than 20,000 CDs. For me, vinyl was an experiment, not a serious hobby. Nevertheless, with a $50K turntable, I felt compelled to buy more vinyl. I did find some great sounding albums that I really enjoyed. However, newer vinyl releases and reissues were a mixed bag, and finding good quality used vinyl was difficult. It also seemed like I spent more time cleaning the LPs than I did listening to them; admittedly because I was purchasing so many records, and they all needed to be cleaned before I could listen to them.

Then I heard a serious CD Transport/DAC for the first time, and it completely opened my eyes to how good those little aluminum discs could sound. The problem is, to buy this massive CD Transport/DAC was going to cost me $80K; I couldn't afford it without selling my analogue gear and my growing record collection. In the end, the decision came down to being practical; I just had too much invested in CDs that I would never be able to come close to replacing with vinyl. Here was an opportunity to improve the sound quality of my entire CD collection, so I took it.

Eight years later, and I have no regrets. I've heard a handful of vinyl records that I can honestly say will never sound as good in any digital format. But I'm not the type of person that can sit and listen to the same five or ten records over and over again. And, for the most part, I can pop in any of the CDs I own and the music is going to blow me a way — like I've never heard it before. The value of that is priceless! 

i did it 3 years ago as i didnt use the thing for many years, than a year later just bouth new TT and new records... go figure :) 

I don't know about others, but at Corvettes at Carlisle this week there was a guy selling vinyl.  He told me young people were coming up to him all the time talking about how vinyl is so "cool."

Maybe there is hope after all!

This is a great topic and something I also have been thinking about.  I started my LP collection about 5 years ago.  In that time, I've amassed around 1000.  These are all high quality reissues; the vast majority from Analogue Productions / QRP, Mofi, and MusicMattersJazz.  I started out with a Pro-Ject Expression turn table and finally graduated to my current VPI Classic 4 with 12" 3DR tonearm and Ortofon Cadenza Black.  Even have a Bob's Devices Sky 20 Step-up transformer.  But since upgrading my DAC to a PS Audio DirectStream DAC Junior, along with my Esoteric K-05 SACD player and Tidal/Roon combo, I find that the streaming and CDs sound truly excellent.  Even old CDs I collected as a teen in the 90s. 

I am now very selective in what LPs I buy...mostly Blue Note Tone Poet series and Mofi Ultradiscs.  I am running out of room and I moved to a larger house last year!  

Question is, should I sell it all and simplify and go to digital.  I haven't any downloads.  Just CDs, SACDs, XRCDs (bluenotes), etc and Tidal.  A concern is, what happens if Tidal or Qobuz go under or some label does not renew their license to stream the albums?  

I could probably get at least $10k out of selling all this stuff...maybe more once you figure in the Glass Autodesk cleaning system!  I could reinvest that into possibly a better DAC (maybe some dCS product or Briscati)?  Better speakers (I run Martin Logan Montis at present)?

Thanks and kind regards,
Jason