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Posted: Feb 16, 2023 - 11:50pm

16 February, 2023

What I did today ...

Last night as I was editing a rip on the old (getting real old) XP rig I got an error message of a write to drive failure.  Then about 20 or 30 click ok warning boxes mostly about corruptions.  When I got done clicking them all, the desktop disappeared leaving just the wallpaper and then the mouse went dead ...  Forced shutdown and reboot.

Restart and blue screen message.  Shit.  Tried again.  Same thing.  Corruptions ?  Ok, I have the previous OS SSD drive parked in my cloning HD dock as a master so let's take old the borked drive, reclone it and try again.  Same error messages and now with formatting problems added.  Ruh, roh.  Tried the master, same messages. F.  Broke out the OS disc and tried a repair.  Wasn't happening.  Said reformat and reinstall.  Ok, through that and then format error.  Huh ?  It just got done reformatting.  Tried one more time, same.  Got out another SSD sitting.  Same results.  Starting to think about the definition of insane.

I just replaced all the other HDD drives last August so I had some brand new spares to try including another SSD.  So let's try starting from scratch with a new HD and taking out the good old OS disc and start all over, sigh. Tried XP Home first.  It started loading and then got to the partitioning part.  Same problem with formatting error.  Now I'm wondering which version it was.  Ok let's try XP Pro.  Got to the partition / formatting part.  Would not make a new partition, so just went with the whole drive.  Wouldn't do it, different blue screen and new error messages. Tried each one again, same result.  The definition of insane again. Stuck a fork in me fearing the worst being XP and zero support anywhere anymore. Start to think about the bios and how they can get corrupted.  Take out the battery on the motherboard and flash the bios.  Original battery, I'll get a new one first before going further.

The plan was go to Microcenter in the morning and get brand new HD's that were clean and untouched, a new battery, go home and try again.  Meanwhile I earlier noticed that the GFI wall sockets in both bathrooms failed, yet the one in the kitchen, on the same circuit was still green and functioning.  ????  Was there some major event I slept through ?

So off to Microcenter in the morning after stopping at Home Depot first for new sockets and a badditery.  Get there, go back to the DIY section and ask the guy who greeted me with do you still speak XP ?  He was in his late 30's or early 40's, I can't tell anymore and here I am a 70 year old grizzly and frazzled old fart asking about XP.  His pain was shown immediately.  I get it being on his side of the counter.  So once I explained why I still used XP and we both understood there is no longer any support I asked a few more questions like might there be a problem doing a fresh install on a SDD, instead of a conventional HDD ?  He said there was an NTFS update awhile ago.  Asked about the possibility of the processor being corrupted.  No only physical damage can hurt one.  Ok, relief there.  So picked up 3 SDD's and 1 old school WD Black HDD, just in case.  Better to have more than you need and return the extra then not have it and make another trip.  Better just 2 trips instead of 3.

Got home about 3 said eff it and went to bed.  Woke up around 8 and said here goes nothing.  Sigh.  repeated all of the above efforts for about 2 hours.  Same results.  Time to pull out the old school HDD and give it one more go.  Same thing.  Grrrr/ groan.  For some reason I thought could the SATA cable between the drive and the motherboard be a problem or the motherboard itself ?  So I was going to plug in the drive into the board with the cables from a different drive and try.  Then I remembered I had some new spare cables sitting around and used one of them instead of disconnecting one from a drive.  So I put the new cable on the new drive and plugged it back into the motherboard in the disk 0 socket.

Boot time.  It lit up and kept going.  No errors and let me install the XP Home OS which is the one I had been running.  Yay !!  Hmmm. It's midnite now. Let me try cloning a brand new SSD from the master and try that.  Yay !!!  Effing cable the whole time.  Had to reseat the soundcard I removed to get the battery out after the first start up. Sound again.  Sigh, of relief.  So it's now 3 AM and I have piles of boxes, discs and drives scattered about.  I'll deal with that in the later today after I take the extra stuff back.

I'm getting too old for this stuff.
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Posted: Feb 11, 2023 - 2:55pm

 Steely_D wrote:

Kinda what I expected.
I'm pretty certain that about a week ago (I've been AFK) I bumped the table and the arm came out of the holder and hit the base pretty hard. My fault. Oh well - and gave me a chance to upgrade the stylus without (too much) guilt.
Thanks for the 1st press offer, too. I'll hold off for now.
 
Turntable 102.  If not actually on the vinyl playing or locked in the holder, always, always, always keep the cueing lever up all other times.  I still have moments and if not for that, it would be disaster.  My carts were discontinued 40 years ago and I have scoured the net to build up a stash of spare styli.  I use a little click counter by the TT to keep track of how many albums sides I play so I can keep track of the hours on the stylus.  I figure every three sides is an hour.  This way I'll have an idea when it might be getting spent and time to replace it.  Cleaning the records is just as much for keeping the stylus from wearing out too soon as it is for good listening.
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Posted: Feb 11, 2023 - 7:38am

 kurtster wrote:
Definitely a bootleg.  I have heard many stories over at discogs about unofficial releases being dangerous to a stylus because of poor QC.  You have to clean any vinyl before playing, even new, to avoid these dangers.  Chunks of vinyl deposited on the surface.  One guy reported having the stylus ripped right off because of snagging something.

Kinda what I expected.
I'm pretty certain that about a week ago (I've been AFK) I bumped the table and the arm came out of the holder and hit the base pretty hard. My fault. Oh well - and gave me a chance to upgrade the stylus without (too much) guilt.
Thanks for the 1st press offer, too. I'll hold off for now.

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Posted: Feb 11, 2023 - 5:49am

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Here's something different. 

I just parted with my last CD - 4 Discreet Quad album.  I ripped it again before parting with it like everything else, but now with my new preamp theoretically I can capture all of the signal on the vinyl which goes up to 30 khz ripping in 24 bit / 96 khz.  From poking around the web I have learned that these should be decodable with either Dolby Pro Logic or DTS in any AV receiver that has these available.  I am not currently doing any surround, just listening in good old fashioned 2.0 stereo, so I am unable at this time to see how they work.  I did set my headphones for Dolby playback and it sounded much different and better, but still the phones are only stereo.

If anyone is set up with a functioning surround system I have put up links below to the album for anyone to try out and see if it works.  It is a well known highly regarded double album from a band based in Macon, Ga and each link is about 1.5 gigs.  The links expire in 5 days from now.  Do let me know how well and if they even work, by either a post here or a pm.  If this works, I may try and offer a transcription service for Quad vinyl, since few have the equipment to play them properly to reveal the sound.  They do require special cartridges which I have.  If nothing else the rips sound great in stereo.

I look forward to any thoughts and feedback.  Cheers and happy listening !

Here are the links ... 

CLICKY 1

CLICKY 2
 
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Posted: Feb 11, 2023 - 5:35am

 Steely_D wrote:
Asking the guru and his acolytes:
I was in a vinyl store today and saw a new copy of Buckingham Nicks but not on Polydor - Anthem PD 5058 instead.
I'm gathering this is a knock off, but is it gonna be a bad knock off, like I shouldn't have gotten it because it'll be mastered lousy or something? edit: holy smokes, it's orange vinyl and, looks like something bent my stylus. Had to order another one. Sheesh

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I imagine that this would be what you have.

https://www.discogs.com/release/6447060-Buckingham-Nicks-Buckingham-Nicks

Definitely a bootleg.  I have heard many stories over at discogs about unofficial releases being dangerous to a stylus because of poor QC.  You have to clean any vinyl before playing, even new, to avoid these dangers.  Chunks of vinyl deposited on the surface.  One guy reported having the stylus ripped right off because of snagging something.

You can have an original 1st press if you like.  We can make a deal at a much better price.  You already have the rip on the USB drive, with the few clicks removed so you know what it sounds like overall.  I can even send you the warts and all before rip if you would like to hear it.  I would even be willing to send it to William (the cleaned up copy) if he would like to add this to the library here.
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https://www.discogs.com/sell/release/14772428?ev=rb
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Posted: Feb 10, 2023 - 10:50pm

Asking the guru and his acolytes:
I was in a vinyl store today and saw a new copy of Buckingham Nicks but not on Polydor - Anthem PD 5058 instead.
I'm gathering this is a knock off, but is it gonna be a bad knock off, like I shouldn't have gotten it because it'll be mastered lousy or something?

edit: holy smokes, it's orange vinyl.
and, looks like something bent my stylus. Had to order another one. Sheesh.



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Posted: Feb 9, 2023 - 9:42pm

 kurtster wrote:

I've been so busy with work and issues with my brother, I haven't had time to much other than those two things.
Thankfully, my brother is back to normal... we thought he had Parkinson's... all the symptoms. Come to find out he was severely depressed!
Now if work would subside a bit... I'm getting a little to old for these tough jobs.
I will press on! 
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Posted: Feb 9, 2023 - 10:08am

 ColdMiser wrote:
 kurtster wrote:

 So that put to rest any doubts about my efforts and quality going forward. 

Hey Kurt, I've been poking around the thumb drive you so kindly sent out to us RPMCC members. The sound quality is outstanding! I'm no audiophile expert but with a pair of headphones on and cranked up the songs I've listened to have been most enjoyable. Keep up the good work, it's obviously a labor of love. 
 
Thanks.  Yes, it really is a labor of love.  I average about 30 hours a week playing with music.  Lockdown, I was averaging 40 to 50 hours a week.  Stay at home and play music all day ?  What better to occupy time and be productive.  Most of the time spent is just plain grunt work cleaning up the rips of all the noise and ticks.  I draw them out manually with a mouse pencil tool, one by one.  Takes about an hour for every minute of music.

I've pretty much reinvested most of the bucks I've made selling my collection back into equipment upgrades.  I'm using the same programs I got back in 2006 when hippie taught me how to use them for working on audio.  They still work with the all the upgrades.  I'm pretty much done getting my stuff together I need to make it to the finish line, unless something breaks.  A spare preamp just incase, another NOS AT20Sla cart and two factory styli to boot.  The sound will remain the same from here on out.  My biggest dead was having to find a new cart to replace what I have always had and the sound I have become accustomed to.  You really cannot try out a cart to make sure that you're gonna like it at this point in time.

I've learned so much over the years and still know very little about this other than I know when it's good or good enough sometimes ... there is only so much that can be fixed with some music.  Wouldn't have got this far if I hadn't stumbled on RP all these years ago.  RP took music appreciation to a higher level and the peeps I've met here have taught me most of what I am doing today.

And then the RPMCC, a place to put all of this to a test and share the music.

This is pretty much what I planned to do as my retirement hobby years ago as a 20 something year old kid.  I'm doing it, as best as I can until I can't.

I highly recommend the Momentary Lapse of Reason and the 2016 original mix of Animals if you haven't got to them yet.  They blew me away.

I also just got done listening to what is linked up down below for the first time on the big rig and can say that it blew me away too.  Play it LOUD.

Cheers !
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Posted: Feb 9, 2023 - 7:40am

 kurtster wrote:

 So that put to rest any doubts about my efforts and quality going forward. 


Hey Kurt, I've been poking around the thumb drive you so kindly sent out to us RPMCC members. The sound quality is outstanding! I'm no audiophile expert but with a pair of headphones on and cranked up the songs I've listened to have been most enjoyable. Keep up the good work, it's obviously a labor of love. 

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Posted: Feb 9, 2023 - 5:33am

Here's something different. 

I just parted with my last CD - 4 Discreet Quad album.  I ripped it again before parting with it like everything else, but now with my new preamp theoretically I can capture all of the signal on the vinyl which goes up to 30 khz ripping in 24 bit / 96 khz.  From poking around the web I have learned that these should be decodable with either Dolby Pro Logic or DTS in any AV receiver that has these available.  I am not currently doing any surround, just listening in good old fashioned 2.0 stereo, so I am unable at this time to see how they work.  I did set my headphones for Dolby playback and it sounded much different and better, but still the phones are only stereo.

If anyone is set up with a functioning surround system I have put up links below to the album for anyone to try out and see if it works.  It is a well known highly regarded double album from a band based in Macon, Ga and each link is about 1.5 gigs.  The links expire in 7 days from now.  Do let me know how well and if they even work, by either a post here or a pm.  If this works, I may try and offer a transcription service for Quad vinyl, since few have the equipment to play them properly to reveal the sound.  They do require special cartridges which I have.  If nothing else the rips sound great in stereo.

I look forward to any thoughts and feedback.  Cheers and happy listening !

Here are the links ... 

CLICKY 1

CLICKY 2
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Posted: Jan 15, 2023 - 12:30am

Question :  Anybody have any trustworthy connections or contacts to produce a high quality vinyl Test Record ?  I have an idea.  It would be using public domain sources.

Comment here or pm me.  This is a serious project if viable.
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Posted: Oct 11, 2022 - 9:28am

Just parking some thoughts from Discogs over here for safe keeping.

I've got a few observations and conclusions made from using all the recently learned information mentioned here regarding hard drives and ripping and what not. In addition I had the opportunity to compare rips of the same album done by me and a pro done in his recording studio using his console. I sold him the album and he was kind enough to rip it for comparisons. He listened to mine in his studio playback and said that given the equipment I have that it was well done and would be hard to improve any further and was worthy of comparison to his rip. His was audibly better but we both agreed not by very much. We both used 24 bit 96 khz wav files for comparison. So that put to rest any doubts about my efforts and quality going forward. He also provided me with a link for reading about pro recording and about how audio needs to be considered for frequencies above 20 khz. That just because you cannot hear something does not mean that you don't notice it as part of the listening experience. Music is both heard and felt by the body. The piece is very lengthy and involved but has a great deal of information that is relevant to this ongoing debate about the mediums we use to listen to music.

https://rupertneve.com/news/rupert-neve-life-beyond-measurement-part-1

Part of my argument has been about listening to files made from ripping either CDs or Lps. Overall I have long concluded that I prefer the mastering done for vinyl as a rule versus CD. And when ripped the source is removed from the process and the files are what you use going forward. I finally learned what the sampling rates really are and what they are about. A 44.1 khz sampling rate cuts frequencies above 20 khz. A 48 khz sampling rate cuts off at 24 khz, a 96 khz sampling rate cuts off at 48 khz, a 192 khz sampling rate cuts off at 96 khz and so on in multiples. I also learned about the dithering process when changing the bit rates of files. That was a big thing to finally understand and put into use when I take my master files down to 16 bits so I can listen to them in my car and other devices.

Vinyl we know has an upper resolution of up to 50 khz because of the frequencies used in Quad recordings and retrievable using a Shibata stylus. For overall audio reproduction of all frequencies, vinyl is superior to CD because of this ability since CDs arbitrarily cut off everything at 20 khz just because of the format. Doesn't matter how good the playback devices are, they will never have anything above 20 khz to offer.

On to files over everything else. The recent release of the 2018 remix of Animals has been my test case. The vinyl is simply awesome, yet it sucks because of the ticks, as usual, sadly. In the past, few if any corners were cut with Floyd vinyl releases making them some of the most reliable pressings out there. This time they did.  The defect rate is 40% from what I have heard. Paper sleeves and 60% of the pressings have issues, even though the sound itself is simply amazing. So I finally went and found a source for hi rez files and downloaded the "factory" 24 bit 96 khz wav file for comparison of the overall sound. This was my first experience with these files, ever. Never had a need or desire until now. I was happy with my vinyl rips. But I am getting really tired of repairing audio, taking out the clicks and ticks and other glitches. Thankfully I can, but with new stuff, I shouldn't have to.

So when I compared my vinyl rips of the album done at 24 / 96 to the downloaded files at the same rates, I was happy to discover that the file was very, very nice and enjoyable and that the vinyl was still very good and if I had never heard the factory file I could be satisfied with the vinyl version. Of course there was a difference, but not enough to experience FOMO. That said, I find that I can live with the factory files and when considering a new pressing of an album versus the file, I will now consider getting the file first because of all of the issues with new vinyl. I got files of 5 other albums and overall I am happy with them and will certainly get more. Also because I have divorced myself of the need or interest of having any physical media once I have ripped it, it is even easier to accept. I want the music more than the artwork and all the other stuff. The music itself is what matters most to me. I can get all the info about the music that I don't know or forgot, here.

That's my story (for now) and I'm sticking with it :)

The article cited above is very lengthy and involved but anyone who is really interested in audio recording and reproduction principles will find it very informative.  Parts 1 and 2 are background pieces and the technical stuff comes in the last 3 parts.  It took me a couple of weeks to make it through, but it was well worth it.  I ended up bookmarking the page to make it easier to find when I could spend some more time reading it.  I am going to go through one more time just to make sure it gels and sticks.  Rupert Neve made recording consoles that worked at up to 200 khz.  George Martin's legendary Montserrat recording studio AIR Montserrat had one of Neve's custom built consoles that allowed for some of the finest recorded music ever.  It was the heart of the studio.

I've also found some of these hi rez files to have glitches and clicks still in the masters that need to be addressed.  Fortunately from my experience with vinyl, I can repair most of these as well.  Most notable so far of a master with issues has been BOC's Agents of Fortune.  Clapton's 461 Ocean Blvd has issues as well.  I still have plenty of vinyl to go through and clean up and will continue to do so, but finally finding a US source for hi rez wav files that will sell to US customers has been a game changer.
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Posted: Oct 13, 2021 - 11:16am

 kurtster wrote:

Yep.  80's metal is really, really hot now and just about anything pressed in the 90's at the tail end of the original vinyl run is through the roof.  There is also this genre of which I know very little about called Northern Soul.  The stories that come with it are really amazing, too.  Stories of thefts of collections and the chases afterwards could be soap operas.  There are several well known characters that have their pictures on the walls of many shops world wide, that handle this kind of music.

The first guy who inquired was good enough to inform me about the 80s metal and made me a "fair" offer.
Still intrigued by the metal value, as some of the stuff wasn't particularly rare, being still mostly pre mass produced cd. 

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Posted: Oct 13, 2021 - 10:59am

 black321 wrote:
 Last fall as I got ready to move/downsize, I sold about 500 lps, mostly classic rock/pop. Could barely give away most of the regular stuff (I did take a few good ones, like a coveted Zep II album, and sticky fingers)...but boy was there great demand for 80s metal! I wasn't ready for that, and probably undersold, but still made some decent $ on a few dozen of those albums. 
 
Yep.  80's metal is really, really hot now and just about anything pressed in the 90's at the tail end of the original vinyl run is through the roof.  There is also this genre of which I know very little about called Northern Soul.  The stories that come with it are really amazing, too.  Stories of thefts of collections and the chases afterwards could be soap operas.  There are several well known characters that have their pictures on the walls of many shops world wide, that handle this kind of music.
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Posted: Oct 13, 2021 - 10:45am

 Last fall as I got ready to move/downsize, I sold about 500 lps, mostly classic rock/pop. Could barely give away most of the regular stuff (I did take a few good ones, like a coveted Zep II album, and sticky fingers)...but boy was there great demand for 80s metal! I wasn't ready for that, and probably undersold, but still made some decent $ on a few dozen of those albums. 
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Posted: Oct 13, 2021 - 10:38am

 rgio wrote:

 kurtster wrote:

The end game.  Looking to get some for myself.
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Amazing stuff. Almost 20 years ago, a great uncle of mine passed away in Philadelphia.  An IRS agent.  A quiet and gentle man.  Never married, my suspicions are that he was a homosexual in an Italian family that likely would have frowned upon it...so he kept to himself. The uncle who was selling his home invited me over to see his "collections", of which there were 3:  trains, VHS tapes, and vinyl.  The vinyl was everywhere.  He built shelves in entire rooms that included the closets.  They were in the halls.  They were in multiple bedrooms.  There were thousands and thousands of them.  The floors and ceilings below bowed from the weight.  It was honestly a bit scary. My uncle said to me...take what you want, the Princeton Record Exchange is coming tomorrow to get them and giving me 10 cents each.  My wife and I filled a station wagon with unopened, shrink-wrapped LP's.  The car bottomed out a few times.  I sold most of them on ebay, and in the span of a few months made $7k-$8k.  I shipped them everywhere.  There was a guy in Hong Kong who sent me thousands of dollars.  I sold mostly Opera and classical.  Many for around/over $100.  No rock that I saw....plenty of Jazz.  I still have some of his albums...unopened...with Korvettes and Sam Goody price tags on the shrink-wrap. I just turned around and pulled one from the rack behind me....https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/fc/The_Bird_is_Free_Album_Cover.jpg 1961 - still wrapped - a "special" sticker on it for 97¢, and a price tag from SKlein?  I had to look them up...they closed in 1978 (regional Philly department store). Some day, I'll open them and listen....but Spotify makes that sorta unnecessary (this album isn't listed, but all of the songs are).  I hope he didn't have a rock section that I missed.
 
Nice story.  Definitely remember EJ Korvette.  There was one on Roosevelt Blvd in North Philly I used to go to.  Which was nearby to the Whitman Chocolate company and also the Philly office of the IRS.
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A popular, and false, story behind the name's origin – that E.J. Korvette stands for “Eight Jewish Korean War Veterans.” In reality, according to Ferkauf, the “E.J.” stands for Eugene and his friend Joe who started with the company from its inception. The Korvette was named after the Canadian WWII Warship a Corvette.

That Parker album is worth $20 to $30

You probably hit prime time for classical vinyl back then as it has really fallen off, but the Jazz, that is a much different story, especially if you have anything original Blue Note or Verve.  Those can be worth $$$'s in only good condition.  I wouldn't open them either, given what it is and how accessible it is.  But you can make some people really happy popping the cherry on one of those.

What I'm doing now is trying to prevent the scenario of your great uncle and leave a nightmare behind and potentially end up in "the rubbish bin" as it is referred to so often over at discogs.  I was finally selling more than I was buying for awhile.  Now it is about even.  The sales do pay for the new for the most part though ... {#Whistle}

It's hard work, especially if it's used vinyl and you are also your playing the vinyl and in my case recording it.  It can get really tedious and boring.  The rewards are still worth it though.  I get the sound and someone gets the vinyl to actually play and enjoy and keep it safe for the future as I like to think.

I haven't plugged myself in years but FWIW here's my store.  Same link as in my profile here.  Those would not be the $ I would charge RPeeps.  I'll also toss in the cleaned up rips and in some cases the remasters of these rips.  If it has been opened, it's been ripped. You can hear it wart's and all and decide what noise if any, is tolerable this being vinyl.  I'll also donate as least a dollar per to RP.

Anyone interested, pm me.  Look at my collection, too.  I can look to see if I still have stuff in there.
rgio

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Location: West Jersey
Gender: Male


Posted: Oct 13, 2021 - 7:39am


 kurtster wrote:

The end game.  Looking to get some for myself.
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Amazing stuff.

Almost 20 years ago, a great uncle of mine passed away in Philadelphia.  An IRS agent.  A quiet and gentle man.  Never married, my suspicions are that he was a homosexual in an Italian family that likely would have frowned upon it...so he kept to himself.

The uncle who was selling his home invited me over to see his "collections", of which there were 3:  trains, VHS tapes, and vinyl.  The vinyl was everywhere.  He built shelves in entire rooms that included the closets.  They were in the halls.  They were in multiple bedrooms.  There were thousands and thousands of them.  The floors and ceilings below bowed from the weight.  It was honestly a bit scary.

My uncle said to me...take what you want, the Princeton Record Exchange is coming tomorrow to get them and giving me 10 cents each. 

My wife and I filled a station wagon with unopened, shrink-wrapped LP's.  The car bottomed out a few times.  I sold most of them on ebay, and in the span of a few months made $7k-$8k.  I shipped them everywhere.  There was a guy in Hong Kong who sent me thousands of dollars.  I sold mostly Opera and classical.  Many for around/over $100.  No rock that I saw....plenty of Jazz.  I still have some of his albums...unopened...with Korvettes and Sam Goody price tags on the shrink-wrap.

I just turned around and pulled one from the rack behind me....https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/fc/The_Bird_is_Free_Album_Cover.jpg

1961 - still wrapped - a "special" sticker on it for 97¢, and a price tag from SKlein?  I had to look them up...they closed in 1978 (regional Philly department store).

Some day, I'll open them and listen....but Spotify makes that sorta unnecessary (this album isn't listed, but all of the songs are).  I hope he didn't have a rock section that I missed.
kurtster

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Location: where fear is not a virtue
Gender: Male


Posted: Oct 13, 2021 - 6:51am

The end game.  Looking to get some for myself.
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