Old CDs and records

1st just because there  is streaming CDs and vinyl are not extinct if they were the equipment available today and that continues to be rolled out wouldn't be available. Also browse threads on here or WhatsBestForum, as well as member systems on both and you'll find plenty with high quality associated gear.

You characterize your 1000 or so collection as  "the mass collection is just so much junk" . Do you characterize it this way because you think that CDs and vinyl are extinct; or because it is in poor condition; or is it because you don't think the titles are of interest to anyone? 

@rvpiano  - I have no experience using these website but maybe check them out and see if you find it useful . The 2nd link has a list of companies that sell classical, possibly they buy them as well ; nothing to lose by checking them out

Start a thread and then disappear

Re the "extinction" of vinyl - maybe tell Michael Fremer , moving from Stereophile to the Absolute Sound, and starting up the following as well

Michael Fremer Launches TrackingAngle.com

New site and exciting YouTube channel to bring outstanding reviews, articles, and interviews to global online audiences

Wyckoff, NJ—June 16th, 2022—Veteran audio journalist and music writer/critic Michael Fremer will launch the website TrackingAngle.com, the new online home of the pioneering 90s- era print magazine The Tracking Angle that will cover vinyl records and all things analog. The site is expected to go live in late Summer 2022. As this new venture begins, Fremer will move on from AnalogPlanet.com, the vinyl record-centric website he conceived and edited since its creation more than a decade ago.

“I am excited to create the most comprehensive online platform driven by my passion for analog playback,” said TrackingAngle founder Michael Fremer.“ Our content will focus on affordable gear, with an emphasis on turntables, phono cartridges, and phono preamps, reviews of recorded music, interviews with musicians and audio industry experts, and so much more.”

The TrackingAngle YouTube channel will resume immediately broadcasting Fremer’s unique brand of analog-centric knowledge, insight, and humor that attracted over 50,000 subscribers to his previous channel, featuring videos that have received more than a half-million views.
Joining Fremer on the website will be over a dozen writers who helped make his previous site a “must visit” for vinyl record devotees and music lovers. Also teaming with Fremer are former TTA partners Nick Despotopoulos and David L’Heureux (Groovy Collectibles LLC) who will run all aspects of website operation and handle advertising sales.

Additionally, “Tracking Angle” was Fremer’s first audiophile music review column, published in the late ‘80s in The Absolute Sound magazine, to which Fremer is returning as Senior Editor. The new website will feature “vintage content” from his TAS column and The Tracking
Angle magazine. Following The Beatles’ late-career admonition, Fremer says he is “getting back to where he once belonged.”

For more information and to register for the mailing list to receive launch notifications, please visit www.trackingangle.com.
Media contact:
Michael Fremer
michael@trackingangle.com