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

Have anyone of you actually calculated this ?

What's your personal ratio ?

I have not looked into this in any detail, and have if anything, only recently.....

Told family members (not my wife) 8^0..........something along the lines of ........." this piece of equipment is worth ......this (xxxx) ......." 

I have, told all family members that they could probably start an Ebay Record Selling Career; if their own career doesn't pan out.... with what is contained in the house. I don't think they are buying this idea ......right now.

This has me a little concerned.  

I assume the good records will only go up in value.  

Some gear I own, I believe is in this same state of fluctuating upward values.

Interested in your opinions, and findings on the subject.    Have you crossed this bridge yet ?  

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25,000 records Fleschler ....

So how many records did the average record store used to hold ?

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Here is a cool way to show your records if someone was selling.  

https://preview.redd.it/dlvrapzn2la41.gif?width=640&format=mp4&s=959a02a7fe2bdbf17998cab27db...

The above GIF link gives you a glimpse into someone's record collection, presented in a way I have not seen before. Sure beats having to zoom into the labels.  

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An article I came across from Forbes that shows more recent data on used sales which were never calculated before.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/billrosenblatt/2018/09/18/vinyl-is-bigger-than-we-thought-much-bigger/#....





fleschler
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I had friends who had 1 million (Music Man Murray) and 1.5 million (Chandler's records).  Their warehouses contained most of their records.  Tom Null just died and he had about 200,000 LPs and tapes (of course he created recordings on Newport Classics and Varese Sarabande).  

As to your intelligent video for advertising LPs for sale-yes that's great.  Unfortunately, I have 2,000 78s which have mostly non-descript album covers and probably half are in sleeves only, just as shipped in cartons from Europe.  So, that would not work for me (and taking photos of 1,000s of 78s for 50¢ an average sale price is way too consuming for my life).  

My large CD collection contains a treasure trove of superbly remastered rare and expensive 78s of classical, opera vocalists and jazz.  I wouldn't want to collect the 100,000s of 78s that they were made from and certainly don't have a lifetime to spend equalizing and speed correcting the acoustic 78s individually.  Nearly all these 78s are not available for streaming or downloading (only the Naxos label has a tremendous source of these records) namely Marston and Romophone CDs.  
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