[Audio Empire]

On Tue, 26 Jun 2012 07:08:42 -0700, ScottW wrote
(in article ):

On Jun 26, 4:36=A0am, "Paul D. Spiegel" wrote:

LP - A clean quiet disc of a good recording is next best. =A0I have built=
a
collection of 2000+ over the years and am still adding to it via swap mee=
t
and yard sale. =A0Many are delightful historical objects to own. =A0I can=
't
bring myself to buy new discs at $25 though.


Out of a hundred or so used records I've found maybe one or two that
are clean and quiet. People who dump their collections at the yard
sales, swap meets, and thrift stores don't appear to generally be
people who ever knew or cared to bother with proper care of
vinyl....and still more played their old vinyl on BSR groove grinders
that no amount of cleaning can overcome.

That is unfortunately true. I've been to estate sales where some elderly gent
has passed away, and found well cared-for LP collections, but at flea
markets, garage sales, and yard sales, you'd be damn lucky to find anything
worth buying (although I did find a perfect unopened copy of
Rimsky-Korsakov's "Tale of the Tsar Sultan" and "Russian Easter Overture" on
London once for $1!).

IME there is far more clean and quiet bang for the buck in a Classic
records or Analogue Productions reissue than all the swap meets in
SoCal.

Can't argue with that!