Having to sell my classical LP collection around 1995 wasn’t exactly a happy time for me. Twenty years and maybe 800 titles all gone because I had to move for new job, and quickly, and it was a choice between my history books or my music.
I’m happy to report that my classical CD collection is better than anything I could have hoped for in vinyl. Not only is the selection much greater today but you don’t have to worry about surface noise or warping a CD with simply a warm look.
The only upside of LP is that the analog sound of a really fine pressing is warmer than that of a CD.
But to get to that point in the LP era, you had to spend a ton of money, which as a young man I didn’t have.
I remember going to the record store on weekends and looking at Deutsche Grammophon or Philips LPs that cost $9 or so — a fortune to me on a student’s income. So, I settled for budget labels like Nonesuch, Turnabout Vox, Seraphim, Crossroads, etc.
Today, all those top-end labels can be purchased used very affordably, and there’s little need to worry about damage.
So, after 40-plus years of collecting, I’m pretty happy.
Time to put on some Brahms.
I've loved music (just about everything but jazz,country and classical) since I was a kid.For years I've been lucky enough to live in a town that's part of a library "consortium" that,collectively,owns many,many thousands of music CDs.Thanks to that consortium's website being searchable by title and my acquiring the ability to use a CD burner I've acquired a music collection of about 6,000 songs...all for the price of some blank CD-Rs and some free time.