What's Worth More on the Open Market - Your Records or Your Audio Gear

Selling much of my spare audio gear would be a cinch as I have Mac 30s, amps, Fisher 400 and 500 receivers and other classic tube gear that has greatly appreciated in value in the past decade.  I think they will continue to appreciate.  My unused EAR equipment is depreciating but has a level value at about 40% to 60% of new price and would sell fast.

On Ebay, my 25,000 LPs/7,000 78s/7,000 CDs have a probable sale value of $225,000 (but it would take yeas to sell).  Gold jazz/rock DCC CDs are quite valuable as are the obscure violinist LPs ($150 to $500 each) and original stereo Decca LPs (similar range).  Then there is the rare ethnic 78s and LPs worth $20 to $75 each.  Otherwise, most of my records would garner 25¢ to $2 each (especially my 5,000 Opera/Vocal LPs).  Despite mostly mint condition.  I have a collection for sale of 2,000+ unused 78s mostly orchestral and 15% vocal, mostly HMV and European Columbias from the 1930s and 1940s for $1,000 (I'm not about to put them on ebay or ship them).  I sold the Resphigi MSFL Maazel LP for $225 in 2019.  Ridiculous as I found it to sound terrible as do my mastering engineer friends.  However, there are about half a dozen listed for more than that and they generally are so sellers at $300+.  I also sold half a dozen Disney LPs for $50 to $90 on ebay in 2018, again rare stereo versions of Funicello, etc. LPs So there is a reasonable market price on ebay.   Most ebay sellers are unrealistic as to the value of their records (too high or condition is inferior in their listing).

So, I am being realistic in stating that my music collection is worth somewhat more than my equipment.  Without the music collection, my audio is worthless.  With even a cheap audio system, my music collection is my treasure. 

I had friends who had 1 million (Music Man Murray) and 1.5 million (Chandler's records).  Their warehouses contained most of their records.  Tom Null just died and he had about 200,000 LPs and tapes (of course he created recordings on Newport Classics and Varese Sarabande).  

As to your intelligent video for advertising LPs for sale-yes that's great.  Unfortunately, I have 2,000 78s which have mostly non-descript album covers and probably half are in sleeves only, just as shipped in cartons from Europe.  So, that would not work for me (and taking photos of 1,000s of 78s for 50¢ an average sale price is way too consuming for my life).  

My large CD collection contains a treasure trove of superbly remastered rare and expensive 78s of classical, opera vocalists and jazz.  I wouldn't want to collect the 100,000s of 78s that they were made from and certainly don't have a lifetime to spend equalizing and speed correcting the acoustic 78s individually.  Nearly all these 78s are not available for streaming or downloading (only the Naxos label has a tremendous source of these records) namely Marston and Romophone CDs.