A time for downsizing may come in your life, as it did in mine. If you’ve spent decades enjoying vinyl, you may find yourself staring at shelves upon shelves of records that, sooner or later, will need to find a new home. In my case, that meant more than 8000 LPs. When we moved to an apartment, they simply couldn’t come with us. So, what do you do?
Back in 2020, I wrote about our downsizing journey in a four-part series for Positive Feedback titled Yes, There Really Is Music After Vinyl (HERE). In those articles, I told the story of our transition from diehard vinyl devotees to a fully digital listening life. What I didn’t describe in much detail was how we actually sold or gave away thousands of records.
Since then, I’ve received occasional requests from fellow music lovers asking for that part of the story. Twice, the inquiry came from a surviving spouse or adult child suddenly faced with the daunting task of liquidating an audiophile’s system and record collection—often numbering in the thousands. After a recent request, I decided it was time to write up what I learned in the hope that it may help others facing the same challenge.
The article isn’t a definitive guide, just a summary of my experience, from which you may glean a few useful ideas for your own journey. Hopefully this may be useful to some…
So, You’re Planning to Sell Your Collection of LPs?
Today, my posts here are primarily about ultra high resolution digital files in the threads Your Best DSD256 and High Definition Tape Transfer. This post struck me as too off-topic for those threads, so I’m posting it as a standalone item given the interest it has received on a couple other online audio forums.
). Before long I found myself literally cluttered with unlabelled -R DVDs around me, and my hard drive filled with music yet to be evaluated.