What 20+ year old LPs you have that are mint?

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Re: What 20+ year old LPs you have that are mint?
« Reply #20 on: 16 Jan 2011, 03:05 pm »
I'm in the same category as most of the posters, my 20-30 yo vinyl is in pretty good shape overall.  However, I was collecting records long before I was an audiophile, so the 30+ yo collection, all the 70's college years and before, has seen some rough trade.  After 15 beers, 10 shots of tequila, a couple of hits of high power blotter, a salt shaker full of cocaine, and various uppers, downers, laughers, and screamers, how clean the Jefferson Starship album is sort of takes a backseat if ya know what I mean.   8)

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Re: What 20+ year old LPs you have that are mint?
« Reply #21 on: 16 Jan 2011, 03:14 pm »
As long as it wasn't an Airplane album I think you're okay.

jtsnead

Re: What 20+ year old LPs you have that are mint?
« Reply #22 on: 16 Jan 2011, 03:22 pm »
I would have to say my oldest stuff is the all the jazz albums shown here:




and then the all the rock albums shown here, I just played my copy of ZZ Top
Tres Hombres, a little scratchy but still sounds great:




my audiofile stuff is here, all pristine, Mo Fi, Reference Recordings, Analogue Productions, Linn and Audioquest all in this one bookshelf




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Re: What 20+ year old LPs you have that are mint?
« Reply #23 on: 17 Jan 2011, 12:08 am »
I stand corrected on CD durability:

http://cdrot.com/info/why-are-cd-rotting-how-it-happens

This is not perfect sound forever.  They fibbed?

Minn Mark

Re: What 20+ year old LPs you have that are mint?
« Reply #24 on: 18 Jan 2011, 06:27 pm »
I'm proud of two LPs:
One is a Deutsch Grammophon  Horowitz plays Carnegie Hall (unopened) and the other is a way too used, abused, but still barely listenable copy of Kraftwerk's Autobahn. I think the other question for comment is, "Which LPs have you loved nearly to, or even to, death?" 8)

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