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Post by julesd68 on Nov 6, 2015 11:55:48 GMT
Yesterday I visited a friend who played me the rarest issue of Leonid Kogan's Beethoven violin concerto on Columbia. One of the most sought after records amongst classical vinyl collectors, it will sell for many thousands of pounds!
But as I was listening to it, I can't ever imagine paying anything like that kind of money. Sure, the performance and sound quality are of course very good but I wasn't listening thinking I have to have one at all costs ... Even if I did have that kind of money to blow on vinyl, I'm pretty sure I wouldn't do it ... Equipment is another matter - the jump in sound quality from a £500 to a £5000 amp can be spectacular if chosen carefully and I could justify that in my mind. But paying that for vinyl would just feel too self-indulgent for me I guess. Nothing wrong with that, if that's what floats your boat, but I guess I was expecting to be a bit more blown away by such a sought after piece of vinyl ...
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Post by daytona600 on Nov 6, 2015 13:22:04 GMT
£20 180g reissue £300 ERC 180g reissue £ 5000 original
have the 1st two & they both sound excellent , 3rd is just taking the piss
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Post by Eduardo Wobblechops on Nov 6, 2015 13:55:37 GMT
It's like anythng else, only worth what people are prepared to pay.
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Post by ChrisB on Nov 6, 2015 14:50:58 GMT
I think 20 is a lot to pay for a record!
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Post by julesd68 on Nov 6, 2015 16:12:21 GMT
Yeah I'm of a similar mind Chris!
If I was so desperate to own the Kogan I would have bought the all analogue / tube reissue by the Electric Recording Company for around 400 quid - you'd get silent surfaces as well with that...
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Post by John on Nov 6, 2015 16:57:57 GMT
The highest I paid is £24
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Post by MikeMusic on Nov 6, 2015 17:33:39 GMT
Highest I ever paid for anything is that MO SACD of Birds of Fire £12
Some of my very best albums were bought for pennies.
It's what they deliver to me.
The rarest of rare, like say a mint early Beatles album will sound much the same as a CD for not a lot
I have many albums, collecting the music rather than the physical item
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Post by Eduardo Wobblechops on Nov 6, 2015 17:50:04 GMT
£250 for me, though that was for a set of laquers...
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Post by julesd68 on Nov 6, 2015 19:30:31 GMT
100 Euros is my highest, by a long long way!
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Post by ChrisB on Nov 6, 2015 20:06:39 GMT
About 22 quid here, I should think. Though I have sold albums for much more.
And I have no shame!
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Post by MartinT on Nov 7, 2015 8:57:49 GMT
About £25 tops for me. There's a big difference between collectors and listeners and I don't buy anything to collect.
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Post by mikeyb on Nov 7, 2015 9:50:26 GMT
I buy to listen to, I have a few more expensive titles but not more than say £35 ( just one lp ) and that was only to replace ones bought as a teen that were stolen in a house burglary.
Not fussy for collecting, but I can understand the collectors, luckily I can resist and just buy to listen to.
Mike.
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Post by ChrisB on Nov 7, 2015 10:37:46 GMT
Collecting to own, rather than to use is an odd mindset and one that buggers it up for us lot!
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Post by MikeMusic on Nov 7, 2015 16:56:27 GMT
Yes can make some stuff we want too expensive !
I'd be happy to make a deal with a collector.
You have the cover I'll have the disc
I regard it as a birthday present when I pick up CDs or even LPs cheap, without covers
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Post by ynwan on Nov 10, 2015 13:18:58 GMT
I paid £300 for an absolutely mint pressing of this:  Only 500 ever pressed (the picture isn't of my copy, mine is an earlier number), only available mail order, all numbered and signed by both Lisa Gerrard And Brendan Perry. It also helps that it is an excellently recorded live album from the height of their success. This is a rarely seen, or heard, record. I do listen to it  . |
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Post by MikeMusic on Nov 10, 2015 15:26:24 GMT
I'm still getting over paying £12 for my Birds of Fire remastered SACD !
There may be permanent damage
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Post by Deleted on Nov 11, 2015 14:30:24 GMT
The most I have paid is over £100 for an unplayed EMI 100 Band On The Run. Paid £50-£60 on a couple of other occasions. Have paid similar or more for new boxed sets and 45 rpm audiophile stuff. Generally stick to a max of £25 even for collectable stuff I want for the sound. Usually a decent copy will show up or auction for that amount or less. The sort of thing that baffles me is prices for plentifull pressings (in their thousands) such a turquoise LZ I or solid triangle DSOTM. I'm sure most of these buyers are not purchasing for sound and playing condition.
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Post by Barry on Nov 12, 2015 2:39:51 GMT
Whilst I have several LPs worth over £100, I think the most I have paid is £20 for a US import pressing of Janis Ian's debut LP: 'Society's Child'.
I buy LPs to listen to, not as an investement - I loath record fairs with the sellers clutching their copies of the Record Collectors Guide!
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Post by native on Nov 12, 2015 9:57:43 GMT
I've set myself a limit of £100 - which has been severely tested recently!
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