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cgod  ·  4140 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Any other Senior-Citizens-In-Training?

Moving this week.

I just took a around a dozen crates of records from the old house to the new one.

I usually feel so proud when I free a geezers dusty record collection from his basement but after moving them all I think I could lose half.





thenewgreen  ·  4139 days ago  ·  link  ·  

We just moved too. I feel for you, it really is no fun. Hope you landed in a good spot and that it went smoothly. I was concerned about what my daughter would think and as it turned out she really hasn't been bothered by it at all. My wife and I are two fish out of water though.

cgod  ·  4139 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Trading a great neighborhood for a way nicer house in a not as interesting neighborhood.

Great school for the kid at the new house.

I don't know how I'll feel about the place in a year from now, I guess that is what life is all about.

kleinbl00  ·  4140 days ago  ·  link  ·  

The sad part:

I had some vinyl. The record player blew up.

I got the books on fixing record players - the amp blew up.

I bought an RIAA preamp from Rane - had to have it shipped special from Europe because Rane stopped making it (no RoHS-approved components for some of the boards). It never worked.

And then I spot-checked a half-dozen of my records and found them all as .flac on what.cd. Considering all I was going to do was rip them and denoise them anyway, it made very little sense to keep up the charade.

Then I didn't download the flacs.

That is my sense on vinyl - fun for the gear fetishism, but not at all about the music.

cgod  ·  4139 days ago  ·  link  ·  

If I didn't have a good 50-100 albums that I couldn't get in any other format I might abandon vinyl.