I've bet the band wagon with vinyl and got some good bargains before the hype.
Best scorce used to be car boots but now half of these are now picking best out, putting them in a plastic sleeve and wanting daft money!!
Cannot beat the sound of vinyl, think people are fed up with the clinical sound!!
Some of the art work on the sleeves is amazing, a pal of mine buys some records just for this and frames them (they look great)
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ta for that....not in a rush (i have the french barclay version with a different psychedelic sleeve and different/ and or better mastering) but there is something iconic about the original track version. as an aside, check out all the hendrix original barclay french pressings, they do sound very different, much more balanced.
http://forums.stevehoffman.tv/thread...amples.170765/
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Pink Fish forum is for hifi addicts. http://www.pinkfishmedia.net/forum/ They will help you with recommendations and also have some vinyl for sale by members.
HMV is pretty good. They often have sales with some decent reductions. They had an amazing Kraftwerk remaster collection box set reduced before Xmas.
I sold a good chunk of my collection including rare white labels about 15 years ago for peanuts before it got fashionable again.
As regards different decks. I have 2x Technics 1200s. Which are amazing for dance and some pop music. But I had (but sold) a Rega Planar 3 which was much better for normal music. I have a strange collection. Loads of dance music from late 80s to up to date calling at all speeds and genres in between. Then loads of classic pop/rock as well.
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I've a thousand rock and blues what are you after?
Certain Hendrix, Savoy Brown, Groundhogs, Mayall, Funkadelic, Parliament, Fairport, QOTSA, plus prog, krautrock, electronic wanted here....
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So I list all my vinyl on Discogs; about 120 albums. Discogs reckon the value to be £250 (low) to £1150 (high). First offer from local record shop: £150. They were a bit surprised when I declined.
You ever have a strathearn audio turntable?
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And what about a Michell Transcriptor, anyone had or, better still, have one of those?
Spot on. They were some sort of magnetic drive IIRC. My brother still has my old one in his loft.
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I think most of the main sources of my vinyl buying nowadays have been mentioned, but a couple that haven't that are always worth a look are..
https://www.juno.co.uk/ - along with Norman Records usually get hold of most new pressings
https://bandcamp.com/ - direct from the artist or label if you're into more diverse stuff
Allyourmusic on Ebay - from the US but consistently cheaper than anywhere else.
https://boomkat.com/ - more left field stuff but has some really good repressings of hard to find electronica
I buy a lot of techno / electronic but that's either direct from the label or from German websites, too many to list unless you have something specific you want..