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Anyone checked vintage vinyl album prices lately?

Sahara said:
The real value in old records comes from the fact that they are one hundred per cent analog: from instrument to mic to master tape to master disc to vinyl record. No digital in there anywhere.
They make modern LP’s, including many of the old classics. The problem is that most have now been transferred to digital masters, thus ruining the analog sound forever.
To be at the high end of the value scale it can’t be one of those records that you had to put a few pennies on the tone arm to keep the needle from skipping.
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There is a good deal of difference between a digital master recorded to vinyl and the music you hear on a compact disc. The masters have a far higher resolution, usually 96k 24bit recording. Bob till You Drop by Ry Cooder was recorded digitally and came out in 1979, before there were any cds in existence.

Records are getting popular again: https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/13/tech/vinyl-records-cd-sales-riaa/index.html
 
But old recordings done on tape masters, then converted to digital masters isn’t the same.
But digital recording equipment has come a long way. And sadly, much modern music is so poorly crafted that it may as well be recorded on a cell phone.
I remember having various incarnations of the TEAC Portastudio back in the day. They were a game changer for musicians to record multi tracks in a bedroom or hotel room. Now a laptop can do so many more things so much better. I still have a few Portastudios kicking around, some of the old master tapes as well.
BTW Ry Cooder is awesome.
 
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I forgot to list all the Zep.

I also have first press LZ, LZ II, LZ III, Houses and Physical.

I did learn something about first press yesterday though-

First US press is likely not worth as much as a first UK press.

Gonna have to dig out the jeweler's loop and hit the books/net.
 
I also remember the early CD's being labeled AAD, ADD, or DDD depending on which part(s) of the process were digital.

That brings up something I'm curious about.

I could have sworn I had a 1983 CD.

Oldest I could find though was 1985- The Tubes CD release of their 1977 album with What Do You Want From Life and White Punks.

It does have an odd jewel case that cantilevers the CD out on a hinged arm.

What's the oldest CD anyone else has?

My oldest CD player is also 1985. It's a 2x oversampling 8 bit unit but sounds surprisingly good.
 
I've still got a stash of considerable size of LP's from the 70's as well as my mom's
stuff from way back. None of it is collector condition; they've all been well played.
Don't really care what any of them are worth; they're priceless to me.
 
Photon440 said:
There is a good deal of difference between a digital master recorded to vinyl and the music you hear on a compact disc. The masters have a far higher resolution, usually 96k 24bit recording. Bob till You Drop by Ry Cooder was recorded digitally and came out in 1979, before there were any cds in existence.

Records are getting popular again: https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/13/tech/vinyl-records-cd-sales-riaa/index.html
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Sony demonstrated a CD in 77 and Phillips in 79.
The first commercial music CD was produced by ABBA in 82 and the first released in the US was by springsteen in 84.

Want to check vintage vinyl prices? Look no further.
https://vintagevinyl.com/
 
There was a batch of CDs released in 82-83.

Mostly classical. I want to say about 50 in 82 and 150 in 83.

There are lists online for those titles.
 
Nice.
 
A friend of mine has 150,000 car magazines...helped him move TWICE!!!!
 
I once helped a "friend" move a "couch" into his new "apartment".

Once I got there, the apartment was a room over a garage with a spindly, external wooden switchback staircase, and the couch was a 300 pound 96" sleeper sofa.


DICK!
 
When we helped our daughter move into her first apartment in Chicago in 2016, we had to use this staircase to move everything into her 3rd floor apartment. This included a full sized sofa. It was her, her 50 year old mother, and her 53 year old dad (me) carrying that sofa up vertically. What a memory that was - and one that I'll never repeat! LOL
She's hired movers ever since for every move - thank goodness!

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64BEL said:
When we helped our daughter move into her first apartment in Chicago in 2016, we had to use this staircase to move everything into her 3rd floor apartment. This included a full sized sofa. It was her, her 50 year old mother, and her 53 year old dad (me) carrying that sofa up vertically. What a memory that was - and one that I'll never repeat! LOL
She's hired movers ever since for every move - thank goodness!
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Yep, I had one of those on the 3rd floor before I left Chicagoland. Yes, all my records went up and came down those 3 stories! My front window was on the alley while my back windows was a house used by N.U. Some **** just went flying out the window when I moved, made moving out tons easier! LOL
 
I had a guy at work ask me about selling off a bunch of vinyl his brother had. I picked a few from the list and he brought them in. He thought they were worth a lot but when I ran the manufacturing codes, most were only worth $2 - $5. None were first pressings. I bought a few but most were warped. Not real bad but enough to cause a pop on playback. I put them in the attic between some heavy pieces of glass. A slow process but it cured the warp. I still use wood glue as my tried and true method for deep cleaning vinyl.
 
My first player looked like this: Sony CDP-101. It was built solid, no plastic housing. It was all metal and rubber, and heavy.
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