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In the Forum: Analog Playback
In the Thread: My today’s views on LP culture and my audio habits.

Post Subject: My lp playing epiphanyPosted by steverino on: 5/22/2009

Responding to the statements in the Cat's second paragraph concerning lp downsizing:

FWIW I had a similar dissatisfaction several years ago although I had nowhere near the number of lps that Cat has. My library was about 2000 lps. I had already gotten rid of most of my CDs around 10 years ago just from growing distaste for digital recordings (at least as expressed on disk). Anyway prior to my epiphany I just played LPs at whim or to obtain variety of styles. As time went on I felt more and more annoyance from deciding which LPs to play and was getting less enjoyment in playing them. Then it occurred to me: why play 2 different LPs that you only half like when you can play an LP you really like twice. From that I made the decision to only have LPs that I really really liked. This required me to make an attempt to rank order them at least in groups of 100 (ie top 100, top 200 etc). The only split was between classical and everything else. (The ranking didn't take that long maybe 6 hours and it has changed only a little in the past 2 years.) Then I started playing the lower ranked LPs to verify that I didn't mind getting rid of them (sale/donation). Within a year I was down to about 800 LPs - 600 classical and 200 everything else. I have a further system where I play my top 300 LPs twice as often as the rest. Interestingly a sizable percentage ~ 25% of the lower half classical LPs are different performances of LPs in the top group which mitigates against getting tired of hearing the same performance over and over. Now I just rotate through them and I really am enjoying it far more. Steverino

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