Has anyone finally decided to sell their Turntable and Vinyl collection?

I went digital early on and was never in the camp that digital didn’t sound good or better than vinyl. Since the 90’s I thought my digital source sounded superb (various sources) and has given me tons of pleasure.

Once I ripped all my CDs (torture!) to a server and added Tidal, the convenience was incredible. But the instant access gave me music ADD. With a new track only a touch away at any moment, I’d think "wow this track sounds great, I wonder what the next one is like" and I found myself sampling, sampling, sampling rather than listening at length.

Getting back in to vinyl a few years ago has cured me of music ADD.I put on a record and almost always listen to at least the whole side, very often the whole album. And because this is so, and because you can sample almost any album on the web no matter how obscure, I tend to buy only those albums I can tell I’d like to play through. If I only like a single song or something I don’t buy it. So this means I tend to select for albums I’ll listen to.  In contrast when I was doing digital downloads, or even creating playlists on Tidal,  I'd end up with tons of music I never ended up listening to.

I still have my digital sever of course and still use it sometimes. But almost every time I go back to the digital server, using my ipad as remote, I find myself falling in to the same music ADD pattern, and it’s back to vinyl.
And I enjoy having the physical collection of albums.

On a practical note, my head reels with the thought of having to sell my LP collection! It’s pretty idiosyncratic, with tons of Library Music albums that are worth good money (and that I paid good money for) only to the niche of folks who are in to it. So it seems I’d be stuck between just dumping the library to some local store or whoever would pay for it - taking a massive beating on re-sale value. Or I would have to sell it selectively on something like discogs, essentially turning record selling in to a second job, which I am very much not in to.

I'll start off with my selling of 18,000 records, mostly 78s over the past several decades.  I have a rule that if I don't potentially want to listen to a record 3 times annually, out it goes.  I still have 25,000 LPs, 7,000 78s and 7,000 CDs.  I want to sell 2,000 mint, mostly unplayed classical 78s from the 1930s and 1940s for $1,000.  I can't ship and am not going to list all the records.  They were purchased from someone who purchased but never listened to them (hence-mint).  I will never sell my ethnic and obscure LPs (many of which will never or cannot/lost tapes be duplicated into another format.  I love the well remastered CDs, particularly of 78 rpm vocal recordings where the acquisition, storage and playback requirements are burdensome (acoustics especially due to non-standard speeds and equalization).  

I didn't start collecting music until the early 90's, so I don't have a lot of vinyl as it wasn't readily available at that time. By 2010, when I bought my first serious analog gear, I had about 200 records and more than 20,000 CDs. For me, vinyl was an experiment, not a serious hobby. Nevertheless, with a $50K turntable, I felt compelled to buy more vinyl. I did find some great sounding albums that I really enjoyed. However, newer vinyl releases and reissues were a mixed bag, and finding good quality used vinyl was difficult. It also seemed like I spent more time cleaning the LPs than I did listening to them; admittedly because I was purchasing so many records, and they all needed to be cleaned before I could listen to them.

Then I heard a serious CD Transport/DAC for the first time, and it completely opened my eyes to how good those little aluminum discs could sound. The problem is, to buy this massive CD Transport/DAC was going to cost me $80K; I couldn't afford it without selling my analogue gear and my growing record collection. In the end, the decision came down to being practical; I just had too much invested in CDs that I would never be able to come close to replacing with vinyl. Here was an opportunity to improve the sound quality of my entire CD collection, so I took it.

Eight years later, and I have no regrets. I've heard a handful of vinyl records that I can honestly say will never sound as good in any digital format. But I'm not the type of person that can sit and listen to the same five or ten records over and over again. And, for the most part, I can pop in any of the CDs I own and the music is going to blow me a way — like I've never heard it before. The value of that is priceless! 

i did it 3 years ago as i didnt use the thing for many years, than a year later just bouth new TT and new records... go figure :) 

I don't know about others, but at Corvettes at Carlisle this week there was a guy selling vinyl.  He told me young people were coming up to him all the time talking about how vinyl is so "cool."

Maybe there is hope after all!