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LP playback is 'labor intensive'. You have to BE INVOLVED in it. some like, some hate...

Posted by 3+4=5 on February 12, 2017 at 13:14:36

In Reply to: Classical music: digital or analog posted by BoezR on February 11, 2017 at 19:15:39:

The real difference between vinyl playback, and streaming is the effort required to play LPs.

If you have never done the LP ritual, you may enjoy it, or come to totally hate it.

As mentioned, every 20 to 30 minutes you MUST get up and change the side.
Lifting the arm off, do a thing with the stylus (or not)
You have to take the LP out of the jacket and sleeve, (You either need to clean the LP, brush it off, or not care about it clicking and popping)
Some stop the TT, or you have to learn how to pick up a LP off the rotating platter! Then the NO MUSIC.. when the LP is off and you are fiddling with the parts, it is silent.
You also have to put the Lp away.
This all takes up a lot of time while playing music.
I find it also focuses ones attention more ON listening, than streaming, which allows you to endlessly ignore the music!

So with LPs, one is constantly reengaged in the process. If yu like to 'do' stuff while listening, two edged sword. The stuff you do will be a lot of record putzing, instead of the other stuff you do now!

Then storage. 1,000 Lps is a big wide deep set of shelves. Where will you put them?

Then buying a turntable. You need at least a TT with an arm, a cartridge, and a phono preamp.

I currently own 4,000 or so LPs. DOWN from a high of 13,000 LPs..
I have three TTs, four phono preamps.

One major point. The records you stand to get may or may Not be worth a damn. No matter what anyone says/said secondhand.
Old codgers LP collection can be fantastic, or total crap. And to a layperson who never plays LPs, they look all the same, good, bad, ugly, no difference to them. The LPs may be scratched to hell, worn, and picked over, and YOU are only getting the Lps the main buyer left behind!
PS if they are so great, where IS the turntable etc to go with them???
ANd if left in storage.. How long? and WHERE? (mold is the main bad thing)

So I seriously would not even bother wondering until the records are actually IN YOUR HANDS.
From my own experience, you have a 64% chance of gaining 1,000 LPs to donate to Goodwill, with no value whatsoever. 20% they are decent and HALF might be worth keeping. 5% they are pretty good, and 1% they are fantastic finds. This is based on reality of old record collections I have been either given or asked to look at the "valuable records" my uncle, musician friend left..

Only ONCE in fifty years was I ever given LPs worth NOT dumping off at Goodwill. Seriously, And they ALL thought the Lps were like 'fantastic' and 'great' 'perfect' 'wonderful collection' Hah.

Edits: 02/12/17

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