Great Collection of Vinyl Records!

[philipbarrett]

Any old-schoolers want dibs at my duplicates and excess records? $250 obo takes the lot and a portion goes back to this lovely forum as usual. No cherry picking.

Rock
Jimi Hendrix, Supertramp, Seger, Skynyrd, Billy Joel, Dire Straits, Hall & Oates, Steely Dan, Santana, Toto and some others (30 in all, condition VG to Excellent)
Country
Hank Williams Jnr, Waylon, Jerry Jeff, Roseanne Cash, Strait, Ray Wylie, Alabama, Pure Prairie League, Marshall Tucker + (32 in all, condition Good to Excellent)
Others
Aretha, Beach Boys, Tommy James + (26 in all, condition mixed)

[tshelfer]

Sold mine (over 400 LPs); ain't going back. There's definitely a market out there. Good luck.

[Texas T]

Those were the golden years of cover art.

[ekms377]

Does Austin still have their vinyl convention? Could sell them there.

[philipbarrett]

I have thousands - running out of room & time to cull.

[Hotboot]

Nice collection of diversity, if these are your spares I'de like to see the keepers. Nothing digital sounds as good as a quality LP. Ok maybe SACD but it's different. GLWS.

[philipbarrett]

C'mon by neighbor - you'll hear them on a pair of Klipschorns powered by a 1962 Pilot dual-rectifier, 60 watt per channel amp!

[TwoLane]

Gee whilikers, wish I could act on this. Good luck.

[aggie81]

Originally Posted by philipbarrett

C'mon by neighbor - you'll hear them on a pair of Klipschorns powered by a 1962 Pilot dual-rectifier, 60 watt per channel amp!

The first good stereo I ever heard was at Home Entertainment in Houston back in the '70s. It was a pair of Klipschorns powered by a McIntosh tube stage. It was breathtaking, and I became a high-end audio nut on the spot. I saved my grocery store earnings until I could afford a pair of their Heresy speakers. I kept those for about 20 years.

I've still got a soft spot for tubes - wonderful linearity, understandable physics, and warmth in the wintertime. Current speakers are Ruarks, powered by Musical Fidelity and fed by a J.A. Michell Gyrodec turntable.

Long live vinyl.

p.s. 60 watts per channel with K-horns? Isn't that just a bit of overkill?
PWK was one heck of an audio engineer, wasn't he?

[bluedogok]

Originally Posted by ekms377

Does Austin still have their vinyl convention? Could sell them there.

Today is the last day of the Austin Record Convention, the only have the fall show now. The spring show was terminated a few years ago when they had some venue problems when the venue was under going some changes. I used to go to ones in OKC and Tulsa (much, much smaller) but never made it to the one in Austin as it always seemed to happen "the week before" I remembered it...of course the one here in Denver was last weekend.

If you wish to break up the collection and maybe make some more off it, The Record Collectors Guild forum is a good place to sell. Someone may even buy the entire collection as there are many shop owners on there.

[philipbarrett]

Originally Posted by aggie81

PWK was one heck of an audio engineer, wasn't he?

Yes, by all accounts a pretty blunt scientist too. I'd love to hear him have it out with the modern directional cable crowd!

But to have designed a pair of speakers in the late 1940s that still stand today as one of the best is an incredible feat. K-Horns are for people who buy equipment so they can listen to music, so many people I talk to today buy music so they can listen to their equipment!

[bluedogok]

By all accounts the Klipsch speakers are very good but something about the horns on them my ears just don't like, always seemed a bit shrill to me. I have heard some good Klipsch systems in larger rooms. I think it a typical living room space the Klipsch horns are just too harsh for my ears. I have Polk speakers now because they are a good value for the money and pretty good for both stereo and home theater. My favorite in recent years have been B&W speakers but they out of my budget. After we get the house bought I hope to start building a new, higher end system.

[philipbarrett]

You can tame the horns by simply listening slightly off their axis. There's a transient response on horn loaded systems that no front loaded or soft-dome tweeter can even hope to emulate. Which is the main reason that almost all large-scale professional speaker systems are horn loaded particularly in the high end. Turbosound/Funktion One are the only designers I've ever heard stay "in paper" up to 15K and manage to preserve those transients.

Of course, nothing's for free & horns do exhibit higher levels of distortion.

If you play a good trumpet recording (or snare drum) at realistic levels you can feel it on the bridge of your nose, which is exactly what happens when you stand in front of the real thing!