What's Worth More on the Open Market - Your Records or Your Audio Gear

@bdp24 ...Bonzo Dog !?  You have BDDDB? *L*

Wonderful...there's hope in these pages yet....;)

Now, if anyone has the Sadistic Mika Band LP, I really would be shocked...*L* (Japanese; a quirky little treat....*G*)

I don't own anywhere near the stated quantities, but...never got into owning Everything, due to a somewhat 'nomadic' lifestyle.  Tended to shed equipment as well, to some degree.

The only thing that's made the journey is a Niles Audio CPM-31; an analog switch matrix.  Rare; most seem to have destroyed. *shrug*
Go figure....

glupson
"...and will have no idea why anyone would possess thousands of pounds of discs that take up so much space."

I am already wondering, and I do own some.

^^^^^
There are those "disillusionment" words again. Now if you don’t own a working turntable, then I am wondering too. Unless one is in the business of buying and selling online records.

otherwise.

I am reminded of this guy I know that has a farmers field. This guy doesn’t grow anything, but he has amassed a large number of boats on it. All kinds.....small, large, aluminum tinnies to larger boats with stoves and beds.

People ask him why he has so many boats. He will never be able to use all of the them. He says, "because each one floats, and is able to take me to a special place".

ct0517,

There are those "disillusionment" words again.

Maybe instead of "disillusionment" it could be called "reality check" or something along those lines.

I have some records and a working turntable, connected, oiled regularly, and all that.

I used to pick which cassettes to take for a trip. How many could I take not to become too bulky, what my mood might be, etc. You might have had similar experience in the past.

Now I have a Walkman, digital one, and all the music I have, minus some records that I simply outgrew so to say, is on it. Hundreds of CDs, many records (tens? a hundred? I am not really sure). I think total is in 1500-2000 album range. Records are now in DSD format, and that one is a space hog, and all the rest is in 16/44.1 FLAC or whatever was the highest available resolution. Two or three songs are in mp3. It all fits on one microSD card. I do keep absolutely every record and CD I have ever had, but what is the point of it, I truly do not know.

One may argue that records sound better, but what good is that when they are stuck in some place far away and can be used only on special occassions requiring more time than the length of that record? And that at the cost of storage space and possible clutter.

Younger heirs, mentioned earlier in the thread, have, for last ten years, had everything in the palm of their hands. Not many will cherish inconvenience of the record collection they inherit.

Going back to lighter topics, the original topic, I think my equipment would fetch more than my music collection but not much more. iPhone 11 would be much easier sell.

Interesting question. My collection would fetch a good buck If the full extent of it could be catalogued and advertised. My issue is that I have what must be one of the most unique collections around. I've gone to unusual lengths in the past 50 years in pursuit of an obsession that I'm not sure I'm over. Much of what I have are one of a kind open reel studio tapes as well as cassette tapes from our local coffee house and other sources. I always involved myself where I could in lending a hand in things like archiving and preserving recordings. I've spent an obscene amount of money in the past running down leads to more music. I've been warned by the owners of the intellectual property NOT to distribute it.I'm looking forward to the day when I can transfer much of it to CDR to preserve for all time. But sell it one day? Probably not. Joe 

jnovak,

"...transfer much of it to CDR to preserve for all time."

If CDR is CR-Recordable, be quick and remember that those discs are prone to failure.

Some years ago, I wanted to transfer a reel-to-reel tape of some privately-made demo music onto a digital medium (CD, at that time). The tape had been recorded in a legitimate recording studio associated with a radio station. Not knowing anyone with a reel-to-reel machine, I found a friend of a friend of a friend that worked in that same radio station. He told me I got lucky to come then and not the year that would follow. They still had one functioning machine to play my tape and they were using it to digitize their collection. Once that one broke, he said, I would be out of luck. All the other machines had broken down over time and they had no interest in repairing them. Who knows if the format we are preserving things "for all time" will be viable in fifteen years.