I don't buy my vinyl or other hobby items with the goal of reselling them. I try to take good care of them, but not for the purpose of selling it again later. If you think you'll sell it sometime later, then maybe you don't really enjoy it. Just open them, and enjoy your stuff.
Vinyl records are not an investment. They will not significantly increase in value in your lifetime. There is actually a good chance that in the future 10-20+ years they will be lower in resale value when adjusted for inflation. Just because there is a hot market for something right now does not mean there will be in the future.
For me, it's a fascination with the mechanism itself. The fact that you can put a needle on a grooved disc and make sound is amazing to me. Of course, this has lead to me collecting a bunch of different formats, because each is a technological touchstone in our quest to share music. So I also have tape, CD, minidisc, and eventually I'd like to get into reel to reel. Plus I find the 'ritual' involves me in the music more, so the music is the event, rather than streaming where it's background noise accompanying whatever else it is that I'm doing.
I agree with you. The mechanism is marvelous. It's so simple and so complex at the same time. Just a piece of plastic and a needle can play so wonderful sounds. It reminds me how marvelous science and knowledge is.
I admittedly need to upgrade! I've been using a large microfiber and some cleaning spray from Boundless, along with an anti static carbon fiber vinyl record cleaning brush from Opula. Both seem to do the job well enough, but I don't think carbon fiber is the best solution for a brush.
I use a homemade cleaning solution. Distilled water/isopropyl alcohol and a couple drops of dish soap in a spray bottle. Then scrub the albums with a soft bristle brush and rinse them off in the sink. Dry them off with a microfiber cloth
It is a tricky one to answer, regardless of the equipment. So many variables involved. For speakers, placement is often the most important part. Cheaper speakers properly placed can sound better than very expensive speakers poorly placed. It is an entire science on its own.
Enjoy the equipment you have. Listen to records, both new and second hand and then decide where to upgrade most. A mid range cartridge can help an entry level deck. Your system should sound good on any source.
Vinyl can also be hit and miss. I have some really terrible pressings in my collection that will never sound good and some that simply blows me away.
In my casse i dont have much as im starting out so this will be my first build. Its gonna be for a small room but i would like the speakers to be good enough for a medium sized room as well
As of now i have rt82 + sony str dh190 and all i need are some good speakers to go with the receiver.
That is a beast of an amp for a medium room. 90W rms is a lot. I have not heard the amp in question, but be aware that sony can be a little clinical in sound. I would pare with a set of warm bookshelves. And add a small active sub later. Bose 301 comes to mind. You should be able to find them at a reasonable price second hand. Just make sure the units are undamaged. Cosmetics can be fixed with patience.
It is harder to find good second hand components now that what it was when I started. People were just buying AV receivers and selling lovely equipment from the 70 and 80s for next to nothing.
My favourite mid budget range speakers.have been Missions for years. Boston acoustics and Bowers and Wilkins also makes excellent bookshelves.
The Bose 301 speakers have a special place though. They can be wall mounted or placed on stands and can deliver a warm sound on just about anything.My father's pair has been in daily use since 1983. The suspension was replaced once in 40 years.
This is what RCA called their Selectavision Video Disk. It was a real vinyl disk with dense enough data that it could be used for video playback. It was incredibly innovative, but far too late to market to make it as a viable format.
I have 4 of them in my vinyl collection and a 5th on the way!
I started when my girlfriend gift me a turntable with a copy of The Dark Side of the Moon, one of my favorites albums. Then I started to buy my own vinyls. Now I have a incipient collection of albums i love.
for me, more than sound quality --for sure sound is different from digital media, but it's hard to say that's really better-- is a more romantic question. I love to own an album, it's art, the ritual of putting it in the turntable and listening to.
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