Why Do You Still Have Vinyl if You Don't Play it?

To me if you don't play them and prefer the convenience of cd's then do what you will with them. But to me it is all about the sonics and cd's / sacd's just aren't at the same level as vinyl. I went all cd back when cd's first came out but kept all my old vinyl. Now I am back to vinyl and hardly ever listen to cd's unless it is passive listening.

Playing analog just seems too time consuming. When I factor in the time spent on analog I wonder what better things I could be doing with my time. Spending more time with loved ones or doing things with a greater payoff.

At a point in life it became about what payoff am I getting for various things that I spend resources (time, money...) on. Many things became low value propositions. The average person will never listen to 5,000 records, it's a low value proposition for the man hours spent, storage space and finances invested etc... I agree with the rest keep a select few records and pass the rest on. I'm in the process on moving my modest vinyl setup to a common space in the house to get more use from it, I could care less about better sonics, what does that matter if you have limited chances to listen. IMO, whole house audio, music servers and portable music are the only hope for many of us to actually hear and enjoy our massive audio collections. Isolated sweet spot two channel audio is a dead end low value proposition IMO. Spend that same time with family and friends and it becomes real clear.

Casually enjoying a jazz record while sharing a glass of wine and chatting with my wife is a hell of a whole lot more enjoyable than unearthing extra air, tone etc... from the record while sitting alone in my man cave. When that record is over the two different situations will likely yet entirely different outcomes. I know which one I'm choosing ten times out of ten. Playing music is not the event, music just happens to be playing during the event.

I listen to mostly LP's (3000+). I do have a good collection of CD's (800+) that I listen to when reading or just to lazy to go thru the process (cleaning cartidge, wiping dust off) or if I do not have the LP. I enjoy both LP's and CD's, but prefer LP's.
Looking at getting a HI-REZ player with a DAC then ripping my CD's, but that is in the future.
I still have a few LP's that are still sealed that I need to listen to. Never sold any of my LP's.
Joe Nies

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Launche....well said.
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