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kettlepot: Send me a pm and I will put you in touch with a friend of ours. We just bought a 1911 Sonora phonograph from him and there are indeed special needles needed to play the records. We have to change our needles every three or four plays. He's an expert and an avid collector of the phonographs. We love that 20's hot jazz and playing it on the original wind up phonograph is special. We have a ton of vinyl albums and most are in pristine condition. I've been trying to get John to part with them for decades now. We still have a good turn table but he's really into the antique phonograph. Maybe I will try to convince him again to sell his vinyl. I think we're way over Black Sabbath.
I am a firm believer that to enjoy music properly, you must play the recorded music on the equipment for which is was engineered. I have a wind up Victrola and a 1968 complete Akaii stereo system with huge speaker cabinets, reel to reel, etc. A few years ago a business in El Paso, TX refurbished the system and I bought a new double, auto reverse cassette deck and a CD changer to hook into the system. It takes an octopus switching box to hook it all together. I need a new turn table. But.... NOTHING beats the acoustical quality of vinyl played on such a system. When I crank it up, the windows rattle in their frames. It is fantastic. I have over 700 lps. I took super good care of them all my life so there is not a scratch on them. Some of the lps were never released on digital media. Obviously, for convenience, I have all the modern equipment for digital but the sound is so flat and tinny. And yes, all that stuff takes up lots of room but I'm not going anywhere.
kettlepot: Send me a pm and I will put you in touch with a friend of ours. We just bought a 1911 Sonora phonograph from him and there are indeed special needles needed to play the records. We have to change our needles every three or four plays. He's an expert and an avid collector of the phonographs. We love that 20's hot jazz and playing it on the original wind up phonograph is special. We have a ton of vinyl albums and most are in pristine condition. I've been trying to get John to part with them for decades now. We still have a good turn table but he's really into the antique phonograph. Maybe I will try to convince him again to sell his vinyl. I think we're way over Black Sabbath.
That is cool! I have a Victrola (wind up) and got several huge boxes of 78's, pristine! at a yard sale. I've heard about the needle thing - I have about 20 of them but didn't realize you have to change the needles so very often. Wow!
I don't know if this has already been suggested, but in some cities there are used record stores. They are typically in the off beat, artsy sections of towns. They may be willing to buy them in bulk if you would sell them cheaply enough. Heck if you want to just get rid of them and don't want them to end up in a landfill, you might just donate the lot to a store like that.
Been slowly de-cluttering, and started with garage. Hate to say it because it will hurt a bit but it's probably time to say good bye to my albums. They been sitting in the same boxes for at least 10 years.
Don't think any place will want them, I never was the guy that kept his albums in pristine condition. They always popped and cracked. Which is why I replaced them with CD's.
PS - The CD's are also boxed up and sitting next to the albums, probably for the last 5 years. Everything burned and stored on-line and locally in digital format.... But they're not leaving yet.
When we moved to Maine last fall, I got rid of albums, cassette tapes, VHS tapes, old magazines, and pretty much anything we hadn't used - and perhaps hadn't even seen! - for the previous 5 years. The obvious exceptions: photos, family documents, mementos of trips/special occasions, etc.
I made some good money selling my 1000+ albums before I moved from Los Angeles to Little Rock. Most of them I took to the used record store. I brought some collectibles with me and sold them on ebay for as much as $75. But those were in pristine condition.
Vinyl is in right now so you might be surprised.
Give me an idea of what you sold an album for. My husband and I have 500 albums between us and many are duplicates. His are in better condition - some anyway - but when I looked through them, it brought back SUCH memories!
It would be fun to just have a few parties - once I finish renovating.
That is cool! I have a Victrola (wind up) and got several huge boxes of 78's, pristine! at a yard sale. I've heard about the needle thing - I have about 20 of them but didn't realize you have to change the needles so very often. Wow!
I'm totally jealous if it's all that 20's hot jazz. There was one Edison model that had a needle that never had to be changed, but you had to play Edison records only unless you had a special adapter for the arm. We change the needle every 3 or 4 plays with the Sonora. We have the Invincible model. It's quite a beautiful machine. I guess we will be collecting more vinyl records and hopefully purging all the 70's and 80's vinyls. So the addiction begins again in another form.
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