yer they were a bit of a gimmick
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Viv, I remember stacking the LP’s.......The problem I had was they took so long to play I would always be changing them if not the order they were in but what I wanted to listen too. We never played 78’s because my sister or I had broken them!
Many were made into Christmas decorations.
Maurice, not sure where you are but in the US old records, in good shape or condition are quite valuable. New and old turn tables are showing up in many places, particularly where I am in the Nashville area!We still have ten boxes of LPs & 78s that we brought over when we moved nearly 16 years ago and have never been opened since, together with several boxes of VHS tapes, and 14 Betamax tapes of stuff recorded from the TV, & the huge Betamax player. I tried one out a few years ago and it was mainly newsreels! I really don't want to waste a week of my life going through that lot.
Maurice
JVC was VERY good equipment!
and i have our Maurice. i have a box of lps and mono records in the loft.that wa my dads. i cant find the heart to get rid of them. (nelson eddy)We still have ten boxes of LPs & 78s that we brought over when we moved nearly 16 years ago and have never been opened since, together with several boxes of VHS tapes, and 14 Betamax tapes of stuff recorded from the TV, & the huge Betamax player. I tried one out a few years ago and it was mainly newsreels! I really don't want to waste a week of my life going through that lot.
Maurice
and here in wales. i give the wax 78s away they wrecked the stylus.
Our Maurice,i took the ceramic stylus out and slung it,fitted a pre amp and a sure dynamic, into a graphic equalizer. that i also have my radio tx connected to as well.Pete,
Yes, and if you shopped around a bit, you could get them for nine quid odd! And moving slightly off topic, the Collaro tape deck was about £14 if I remember right, but with cheap asynchrous motors, they soon developed lots of wow & flutter.
But not a good idea to stack records, Viv, a bit of accidental dust and grit soon put scratches on them.
Maurice
phew. £15. i would walk on by.... a song comes to mind
since record players come back in fashion people are cashing in on old vinyl record sales.
we have a great shop here you can buy or exchange any record cd or tape
Maurice, I know what you mean about time consuming! I started to put our home movies on to CD's and gave up! There are companies that do that but they will not edit.Richard,
I'm in Crete and we don't have antique shops here. In fact, very little second hand at all - people tend to run things into the ground! The boxes of 78s weight a fair old bit and there are fives boxes of them. My car was 15 years old when I sold it, and that was a relative youngster here. Our original idea was to convert all this old stuff into digital and I have the equipment to do it, but it is so time consuming. But now CDs are on their way out and CDs that are burned on a computer only have on average a life of 5 years. Commercially pressed stuff lasts a lot longer, but soon you won't be able to get anything to play them on anyway. Member sticks last somewhat longer, but that is the ever present problem of people involved in archiving - the ever-evolving different formats.
Some years ago I was contacted by a museum because I was one of the few people who had a working copy of a DOS database called GIM (Genealogical Information Manager). They'd been left a family tree as a GIM file and had no means of reading it, so they put an ad in Family Tree Magazine and I was the only person that responded.
Maurice
Dave I think that's the smart way to go!
Yes exactly! It's such a pleasure to be able to play almost anything you want to hear with the hassles, thanks to Utube...
