http://vimeo.com/1546186?pg=embed&sec=1546186

Crazy! The guy is selling the collection. First asking price was 50mil, now it's just 3mil and still not sold. Somebody give me 3 million dollars please...

Wow, thats alot. If i had the money, i wouldnt mind helping him.

It's the iPood generation, the ones who call earplugs headphones, the ones who prefer(!) mp3 over uncompressed wave.

Luckily I was raised around vinyl, was taught what a good headphone or a good set of speakers sounds like and how to listen to music. Of course, nowadays nobody listens to music anymore, me included. Very rarely do I ever just sit back and listen.

I do still listen to music actually (beside in the car). I have a turntable in my living room and if i'm not making music myself, or am watching a movie, etc... i play/listen to my records. Nothing comes even close to the sound of vinyl IMO.

I'd buy that collection without thinking twice... if i had the money and a place to store it.

@ morpha

interesting article. I'm wondering, I grew up listening to tapes and self recorded radio stuff, does that mean I have to like its quality?

Deep Purple, Sweet Child In Time, wet played vinyl, 2 big speakers :lovies3d:

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@ morpha

interesting article. I'm wondering, I grew up listening to tapes and self recorded radio stuff, does that mean I have to like its quality?

I'm not sure, personally I get bored with repetition quite quickly, even the most brilliant pieces of music bore the pants off me after a while. A change in quality can shift your attention to previously inaudible elements, so it's potentially less boring than the version you're used to.

I've recently started listening to the whole HVSC #52 (everything, include subtracks, 1m20s per track) in surround sound... it's vastly different from the original, mono SID experience on the (unmodified) C64. SIDs are definitely a lot easier to preserve, duplicate, distribute and play though, than vinyl that is

Wouldn't it sell much better if he divide it up?

then it wouldnt be the worlds biggest record collection...

I think his target is to keep it all together.
He has more or less a database of some sort, instead of breaking that apart, it's possible to maybe even fill it up.
I think you could make a LOT of money by digitalising all this.