Vinyl is back for good and that’s exciting

You got me all wrong. I’m no LP snob. I just don’t buy records in less than mint physical condition. That means no LPs from Goodwill or yard sales have ever qualified. At CAF I bought a dozen used LPs from a trusted vendor at $10 each, all mint. And he marked them down to $5 each. But while there, I saw, for example, that complete Mosaic sets, of which I have 9 or 10 accumulated over 30 years or so, were on sale from the same vendor, for $500 each.

Buying vinyl is way over my budget...

I dont listen to 500 albums merely ...

I like to explore...

Some albums i listened 1000 times, ( how is a vinyl state after few hundred listenings ? ) some others i like to listen to them few times...

But i like to own them , and i cannot afford a 20,000 bucks system with 10,000 albums... I must choose ... I had chosen a 1000 buks system speakers+headphones, TOP one for his price ...And i am happy and it is not a stopgap...

Now how do you keep 10,000 cd or vinyls ?

Answer : a room for them , it takes one wall of a small thirteen feet room for 2,500 cd or vinyl on each walls ...

Now i like books ...And i had more all my life than cds ...

Another room ....or two....

Where did i put my system ? In a dedicated acoustic room with no books nor my 10,000 albums for sure ...

Three rooms and i had no room here for my 2 children yet ...

I prefer lossless files...

My children are gone but even with a smaller house, i do not have anymore my past dedicated room ...

I ggo down to 500 paper books ... But all my cd were transfered on files all along the last 20 years...

Happily ...

Because i dont have the space now in a small house for two ...

And now imagine the cost of a competite vinyl system ?

In low cost system digital beat easily vinyl...

In high end if i listen mike lavigne and i listen to him because i trust him , vinyl is better ...

i will stay with a low cost completely satisfying system ...😁😊 With no frustration because trust me it sound minimally very satisfying ...

But there is no truth here, we have all our needs ...

@lewm I didn't think or mean you are a snob. (More like: I am a slob)
You just have different (higher) standards. I am sure that over time, I will too be pickier about what I put on my turntable, e.g. if I have a better cartridge. I am experimenting a lot, buying rare records. sometimes buying a lot of 10 at goodwill and find out they are all junk, sometimes buying 3 and they are all awesome. 
 

Why do audiophiles sometimes, not all the time, like take the fun out of just listening to music? Not only do I remember the fun of just simple crate digging, I still do. I’ve gotten some really nice gems at Goodwill type stores at a buck a piece, and the internet with discogs, and other independent sellers I've gotten some great tunes also.

One thing about vinyl and independent record stores in and around where you and I live, it’s the used records that keep them open, not the new uber expensive remakes. And when your older it’s nice to walk in a record store and see a bunch of crates with that particular unmistakable smell of time, with like minded people of all ages. In fact I dare say it’s the kids that has kept vinyl alive. Even the young kids have told me they like the sound of vinyl better than cd’s.

A Vinyl LP I purchased in my mid' teens' and have kept until this day, has had a early period of its life, being taken to parties and has been exposed to very unhealthy substances either air born or spillage.

Later in the LP's life it had undergone a few cleaning methods, using solutions produced to purposely clean Vinyl LP's.

This Album was kept for sentimental reasons, as it was a concern when being replayed, the sonic produced was uncomfortable and the Styli was seemingly in a worse case interface. The Album was not played for more than a decade.

Neil Antin's PAVCR become available to myself, using the info in this instructional, and a few other methods seen in use around the methods in the instructional. I set about carrying out using the Manual Cleaning Method, using a Solution that was a mixture of substances suggested available in the UK.

The Album above having undergone one clean only, has become totally usable.

I have described the cleanliness of the Album as being purified, I had a new experience where I perceived the cleanliness as a addition to the sonic produced.

There are methods available for Vinyl care, that are not too expensive to put in place, that will produce the cleanest Vinyl LP, either as a used or new LP. Setting aside the tools to clean and any methods adopted for LP drying, the solution produced using the guidance in the Instructional if fully utilised, will be approx' $00.05 per LP cleaned.

As far as I understand, this cost of .05c for a solution to clean a single LP, that when applied as per the Instructional, will produce a LP that can have a minimal contaminant residual left, especially a contaminant residual that does not get amplified in the RIAA and become a sonic at the Speaker end.

Can a Vinyl LP user buying both new or used LP's want any more available to them as a cleaning method (purification process) ?  

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I have in the past, with no restrictions to the work area, managed in 1 hour to have 10 x Vinyl LP's cleaned using the PAVCR Manual Method.