I still have around 2,000 LPs, the vast majority of which are stored
either in 15 metal milk crates (circa 1975) and two Ikea bookcases.
Pictures below. The remainder are stored in either homemade wooden
crates or those cheap plastic crates (which are widely available but
pretty flimsy).
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coming late as usual to this thread i'll chuck my tuppence worth
in...
my small vinyl collection live in MDF cubes within easy reach..much
to SWMBO's chagrin!.
I have duplicate recordings on Phillips Musicassette,Vinyl,CD and
upstairs Qnap server.
the Sondek tops the lot of them as far
garym;568881 Wrote:
Will do! I make it to the wonderful world of Florham Park now and again
(although I do like Madison nearby). And I hope this means that your
wife likes the Dead.
She caught more shows than me, and I was either side of 200...so that's
a YES! Hope to meet you soon. Back to
russelc;568287 Wrote:
By the way I consider my collection as modest compared to some people I
know who have collections in the 10K+ albums bracket, and by todays
standards it's tiny compared to some peoples digital collections.
Oh, and yes I have listened to every single album at least
TheLastMan;568737 Wrote:
We clearly move in different circles :)
I have about 800 recordings in total, 500 LPs and about 300 CDs, and I
have more recordings than anybody else I know.
I was actively collecting recordings for about 20 years (my 20's and
30's) but more or less stopped when
garym;568754 Wrote:
Doesn't speak well for marriage. ;-)I'm working on 28 years, but my
wife puts up with the concept that if I like an artist I must have
everything they ever did, including rarities and outtakesprobably
why we've been married 28 years. She's just happy that I've
TheLastMan;568766 Wrote:
I love music, but was never quite *that* obsessed! Once I got married I
just became less interested in sitting passively in front of a pair of
speakers, which is rather a solitary pursuit.
We started to go to more live concerts, and once the kids arrived
(three
garym;568768 Wrote:
sounds fun! Difference may be that I also spend little time sitting in
front of speakers but a lot of time listening to music.
Us too, but mainly radio, or at least it used to be so before we got
the Duet.
It is no coincidence that our collection of music is expanding far
garym;568768 Wrote:
EDIT: And of course I very much enjoyed the 1971 shows!!!
Wish I knew an emoticon to show my face green with envy...didn't start
seeing Dead shows until 1978...aaahhh, the good ole days :)
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fphredd;568805 Wrote:
Wish I knew an emoticon to show my face green with envy...didn't start
seeing Dead shows until 1978...aaahhh, the good ole days :)
Way off topic now, but yep it was the good ole days! My first concert
as a young teenager was the Grateful Dead, 12/26/69 (SMU Auditorium,
garym;568810 Wrote:
Way off topic now, but yep it was the good ole days! My first concert as
a young teenager was the Grateful Dead, 12/26/69 (SMU Auditorium, Dallas
Texas). Interestingly enough, I can actually stream that exact show from
Live Music Archive! Of course everyone's taste
garym;568754 Wrote:
I'm working on 28 years, but my wife puts up with the concept that if I
like an artist I must have everything they ever did, including rarities
and outtakesprobably why we've been married 28 years. She's just
happy that I've digitized it all and stored the CDs out of
fphredd;568858 Wrote:
If you're ever in new joisey, please let me know, would love to buy you
a beer (or seven) and hear stories...one claim to fame here, met my
wife at a Dead show :D
Will do! I make it to the wonderful world of Florham Park now and again
(although I do like Madison
russelc;568092 Wrote:
...
I still haven't worked up the courage to even think about digitzing
just those albums that I cannot get on CD :-)
The upside is that I think they still sound better through my LP12 than
any CD player or streamer I have heard including Linn's own mega bucks
Phil Leigh;568202 Wrote:
{as a once proud and fully paid-up member of the LP12 club...}
[SNIP VERY INTERESTING POST]
Sorry, wandered off-topic somewhat.
No problem, thanks for your input, glad to hear I am not the only one!
I think we rip LPs for different reasons. Although once a bachelor
russelc;568092 Wrote:
I still play my vinyl also and have some 4500 LP's.
I still haven't worked up the courage to even think about digitzing
just those albums that I cannot get on CD :-)
Good grief! If you bought an LP a day, every day, 365 days a year it
would take you over 12 years
TheLastMan;568271 Wrote:
Good grief! If you bought an LP a day, every day, 365 days a year it
would take you over 12 years to acquire a collection of 4,500 LPs. At
a more normal (but still slightly obsessive) rate of 2 a week it would
take over 43 years!
How did you come by them all?
TheLastMan;568271 Wrote:
Good grief! If you bought an LP a day, every day, 365 days a year it
would take you over 12 years to acquire a collection of 4,500 LPs. At
a more normal (but still slightly obsessive) rate of 2 a week it would
take over 43 years!
How did you come by them all?
russelc;568287 Wrote:
The thing is there was a time when I would happily buy 20-30 albums a
week as I seemed to spend all my free time in record shops - remember
those! Browsing CD's is just no fun for some reason. I guess I was very
obsessive:-)
ah, the good old days. I probably had a
I still play my vinyl via a Linn LP12 along with my SB Touch so in
effect it is the CDs that have evolved into something else. I have no
trouble listening to analogue and digital.
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I still play my vinyl also and have some 4500 LP's. I even occassionally
still buy LP's. Some of the new 180g pressings are superb quality - far
better then any other medium I have ever heard and that includes early
Decca classical on 1st gen pressings.
I still haven't worked up the courage to
The first is general: This would be a few peach crates.
I was always very careful about care and handling so the only
difference between these and the others is manufacturing.
The second is half-speed: This would be a little over a half a peach
crate.
It seems like a lot of these are
Following on from EdPell's interesting query on CD collections, am I the
only one who still has a collection of LPs and is busy digitising them?
How do you store your LPs?
My big problem is finding suitable archiving boxes for my LPs that are
tall and wide enough to take an LP while being
On 07/30/2010 07:07 AM, TheLastMan wrote:
Following on from EdPell's interesting query on CD collections, am I the
only one who still has a collection of LPs and is busy digitising them?
How do you store your LPs?
I had a fairly large LP collection in the 80s, probably 300 or so. I
switched
I had the same experience with trying to digitize my LP's. I set up my
linux computer with the editing software, bought a preamp, found a new
cartridge and needle for my turntable, bought a record cleaning kit,
and went to work. I stopped after about 3 albums. Just too much effort
involved.
My
Hi Pat, you and I have actually had this discussion before! I wasn't
really asking about recording my LPs, I already have a pretty efficient
workflow for that (length of LP + 20 minutes). I was really only asking
about how to store them.
In case search has lost the original correspondence. My
hi there
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If you buy wine by the case (12 bottles), it usually comes in fairly
sturdy cardboard boxes of about the right size.
And as an added benefit, the content makes all your music sound better
:-)
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dblack;565384 Wrote:
I had the same experience with trying to digitize my LP's. I set up my
linux computer with the editing software, bought a preamp, found a new
cartridge and needle for my turntable, bought a record cleaning kit,
and went to work. I stopped after about 3 albums. Just too
cliveb;565397 Wrote:
If you buy wine by the case (12 bottles), it usually comes in fairly
sturdy cardboard boxes of about the right size.
And as an added benefit, the content makes all your music sound better
:-)
How right you are!
Sounds like a quick trip to Majestic to investigate wi...
I haven't owned an LP for close to a quarter of a century.
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Brian
In Southampton: my son's Marantz AV amp in Super Direct mode with BW
684 (Not good!)
In Nicosia: Quad 405-2 refurbished by 405man - Quart 980s German Tower
Loudspeakers. Boom in conservatory.
I have a bunch of LPs sitting in a box in the basement, but they should
probably be in the trash. I haven't seen any LP that I'm interested in
that isn't available on CD, so I've log ago collected all the music I
had on LP. Even some of the more rare 12 singles material - this has
been a
cliveb;565400 Wrote:
Make no mistake, digitising LPs and making a good job of it takes time
and effort. Unless the album is unavailable on CD, or the CD version is
compromised in some way, digitising the LP is daft. (Unless you're weird
like me and actually *enjoy* the process, as a hobby).
Labarum;565404 Wrote:
I haven't owned an LP for close to a quarter of a century.You obviously never
owned a Linn Sondek LP12. They are addictive. I
still reckon it makes better music than any CD player I have owned,
including a £900 Naim CD3 bought in my happy bachelor days (now sold).
cliveb;565400 Wrote:
Make no mistake, digitising LPs and making a good job of it takes time
and effort. Unless the album is unavailable on CD, or the CD version is
compromised in some way, digitising the LP is daft. (Unless you're weird
like me and actually *enjoy* the process, as a hobby).
Ho hum... seems I am in a minority here.
I think I had better make my way to the 'Linn forums'
(http://forums.linn.co.uk/bb/) and see what they suggest.
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Matt
*SqueezeBoxes:* SB Duet (Controller + two receivers)
*Server:* Synology Diskstation 107+ NAS (with firmware 2.3-1157)
TheLastMan;565417 Wrote:
It was a consipiricy by the record companies to put an end to the LP as
a medium!
;)
Don't you just love it!?
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