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Finally got rid of my vinyl

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bluefuzz

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I just donated 600 odd vinyls to a young person in the family along with my 50+ year old deck. She seemed happy :cool:. And so am I to regain the shelf space. They've been gathering dust for a couple of decades. It was time ...
 
Great job. You did the right thing. :)
 
I hope she will enjoy it and well done. Holding onto things that don't mean much is wasteful. Having other people enjoy them is a great pleasure for both sides.
 
Multicore said:
Are you looking forwards to doing maintenance on the TT?
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I don't think that will be necessary. She seems quite well versed in turntable arcana already. I'm more concerned what she makes of Throbbing Gristle's Third Annual Report or a couple of Last Exit albums ... ;-)
 
bluefuzz said:
Pioneer PL12D. Nothing spectacular, but a solid workhorse that has been chugging along since 1973. I think I've changed the belt once ...
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Interesting deck that one was and the UK sold many thousands of them (our store in Watford alone sold two dozen on a Saturday for many months and it was my job to fit M75-EDs to most of them :D...)

The hot running motors (in the UK at least) will need a drop of oil top and bottom to prevent them seizing up - didn't the deck come with an oil dropper originally? and same with the main bearing by now. The arm is well suited to modern 1.75 - 2g trackers too...
 
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Good riddance. I did the same in 1988.
 
I'm hanging onto mine for now, as long as we have our largish house...will have to say goodbye eventually. Just trying now not to add to the pile, too much.
 
bluefuzz said:
I just donated 600 odd vinyls to a young person in the family along with my 50+ year old deck. She seemed happy :cool:. And so am I to regain the shelf space. They've been gathering dust for a couple of decades. It was time ...
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I am enjoying my record collection almost on a daily basis, actually still have 2 TT, one for each sound system in my 2 dedicated listening room.
Happy for you that you did something that seem to make you happy, it is nice that you gave something that you did not appreciated anymore to someone that will take pleasure from it.
Enjoy your newly reacquired shelve space.
Thank you for sharing.
 
DSJR said:
didn't the deck come with an oil dropper originally?
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Yes I think it did. I remember I have oiled it a few times. If I'm not mistaken there were warnings not to over oil it. Anyway, not my problem now! I'm sure the manual can be downloaded somewhere or some AI bot can assist if necessary ...
 
bluefuzz said:
I don't think that will be necessary. She seems quite well versed in turntable arcana already. I'm more concerned what she makes of Throbbing Gristle's Third Annual Report or a couple of Last Exit albums ... ;-)
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You could have introduced her gently through 20 Jazz Funk Greats…
 
tineared said:
Then spent the next 25 years building up my CD collection to over 1000 titles
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I still have >2000 CDs taking up space. Most of the vinyl I just got rid of I have on CD as well. Maybe the CDs will go in the not too distant future. It's only been a decade or so since I played any of them ... ;-)
 
bluefuzz said:
I still have >2000 CDs taking up space. Most of the vinyl I just got rid of I have on CD as well. Maybe the CDs will go in the not too distant future. It's only been a decade or so since I played any of them ... ;-)
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Oh my. I played my CDs daily. The wonderful thing about having them digitized is now I can easily look through them from the comfort of my sofa and pick gems I haven't listened to for awhile.
Don't even get me started on the convenience when I'm entertaining company...
 
tineared said:
The wonderful thing about having them digitized is now I can easily look through them from the comfort of my sofa
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Oh yes, I have them all ripped to my NAS. It's not that I don't play that music anymore, but I can live without the physical manifestation. And most of it is on Spotify anyway.

Ironically, since the vast majority of my vinyl and CDs were bought second-hand, playing music on Spotify or similar means the artists (if still living) now earn a penny or two from my patronage which they never did when I bought physical media ...
 
bluefuzz said:
Oh yes, I have them all ripped to my NAS. It's not that I don't play that music anymore, but I can live without the physical manifestation. And most of it is on Spotify anyway.

Ironically, since the vast majority of my vinyl and CDs were bought second-hand, playing music on Spotify or similar means the artists (if still living) now earn a penny or two from my patronage which they never did when I bought physical media ...
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I'm a dinosaur and prefer to own my music. Agree about compensating the artists. Bandcamp is a priceless resource, especially for music that's difficult to find...

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bluefuzz said:
I just donated 600 odd vinyls to a young person in the family along with my 50+ year old deck. She seemed happy :cool:. And so am I to regain the shelf space. They've been gathering dust for a couple of decades. It was time ...
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Getting some seriously mixed messages in these responses!

Was this a kindly inter-generational wealth transfer of beneficent cultural riches?

Or was it cynically off-loading the dead weight of poorly measuring LPs and an obsolete turntable as a passive-aggressive way to screw over and burden a vulnerable at-risk young person unaware of how contemptible vinyl is among Swedish Death Cleaning ASR-ites?

:p
 
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