In uk.misc,  (August West) wrote in ::

>Marc Wilson  writes:
>
>> I have around 3-400 albums.  There are others I'd like, but I don't
>> find enough new stuff I like to spend what I spent on the system.
>
>I have somehwere around that same number of LPs and CDs, each, and I
>have no trouble at all finding new stuff to buy.
>
>You must have one hell of a system if it cost you more than the music,
>Even just 3 quid per item, that's ~9,000-12,000 quid. And I have my
>collection insured at about 6 quid per item.

That's "three to four *hundred* albums", not "thousand".  Probably a couple of grand's worth.
-- 
Marc

"Lord, please make me the kind of person my dog thinks I am."

Marc Wilson wrote:

> And I have my collection insured at about 6 quid per item.

Poser!

August West wrote:
> "John of Aix"  writes:
>
>> Marc Wilson wrote:
>>
>>> And I have my collection insured at about 6 quid per item.
>>
>> Poser!
>
> That was me, not Marc.

Buggrit.

> And I only have it insured that way as the
> insurers insisted, as its value was above the limit for individual
> items or collections. Fortunately, the didn't insist on a list - I
> just sent them a photograph of the stack. The 6 quid per item was
> their rule of thumb to value it; it seems a reasonable average
> replacement valuation.

What? I never paid more than 6/8d (SIX SHILLINGS AND EIGHT PENCE) fpr 
45s and I tended to hang around the Golden Guinea and Music For Pleasure 
rack when I was a lad. The latter was tripe, the former good with old, 
classic and often moni recordings such as the ineffable Kathellen 
Ferrier singing Mahler's 'Das Lied von der Erde' with Bruno Walter et 
tout et tout. That one is worth about a million quid to me, the rest are 
probably still only worth 6/8d. But what with inflation etc...

In article <485843c3$0$896$ba4acef3@news.orange.fr>, 
j.murphy@libertysurf.fr says...
> 
> What? I never paid more than 6/8d (SIX SHILLINGS AND EIGHT PENCE) fpr 
> 45s 

That's what they were when I first bought one.


and I tended to hang around the Golden Guinea and Music For Pleasure 
> rack when I was a lad. The latter was tripe,

ISTR having a couple of MFP albums that were OK, but I have no 
recollection of what they were, so maybe I didn't.

-- 
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On Wed, 18 Jun 2008 09:28:36 +0100, Dave Budd wrote:

<snip>

> ISTR having a couple of MFP albums that were OK, but I have no 
> recollection of what they were, so maybe I didn't.

Wasn't The Archies "Sugar Sugar" originally on MFP - I've got a copy, but I
can't be arsed to find it.


-- 
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On Wed, 18 Jun 2008 09:26:46 +0100, Hot Badger Deluxe wrote:
<snip>
>  The Archies "Sugar Sugar"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGL4btEIoTo

You know you want to.


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In article , august@kororaa.com says...
> "John of Aix"  writes:
> 
> > Marc Wilson wrote:
> >
> >> And I have my collection insured at about 6 quid per item.
> >
> > Poser! 
> 
> That was me, not Marc. And I only have it insured that way as the
> insurers insisted, as its value was above the limit for individual items
> or collections. Fortunately, the didn't insist on a list - I just sent
> them a photograph of the stack. The 6 quid per item was their rule of
> thumb to value it; it seems a reasonable average replacement valuation.
> 

The vast majority of mine were bought at a fiver or less and could 
probably be replaced at a similar price. However I was rather shocked to 
see that I own a CD that is currently on sale secondhand for £72. So 6 
quid an item may well not be particularly generous.

-- 
eric
"live fast, die only if strictly necessary"

In uk.misc,  (August West) wrote in ::

>"John of Aix"  writes:
>
>> Marc Wilson wrote:
>>
>>> And I have my collection insured at about 6 quid per item.
>>
>> Poser! 
>
>That was me, not Marc. And I only have it insured that way as the
>insurers insisted, as its value was above the limit for individual items
>or collections. Fortunately, the didn't insist on a list - I just sent
>them a photograph of the stack. The 6 quid per item was their rule of
>thumb to value it; it seems a reasonable average replacement valuation.

Mine's insured on a similar basis.

There's a chap I do some work for as a sub-contractor who has around 12,000 albums, and about 8,000 CDs, and his hi-fi is insured for about 50 grand.  And, knowing him, I bet he *does* know exactly how many he has, and what he paid for them and when.

His turntable (a Zarathustra Soliloquy) has three tonearms, all with different cartridges (IIRC, a Koetsu and a Kiseki and something else) and he records every time he plays an LP- none of this guessing when it has 1,000 hours on it.

I don't want to be him, but I'd like his toys.
-- 
Marc

Fundamentalist (n.):  Portmanteau word formed from "fundament" and
"mentalist", i.e. one with his head up his arse.

August West  writes:

> I seem to have reached a point where I don't care that much
> anymore. I just don't have the same desire for wonership I had when
> I heard a friend's system, back in in '91 - Mitchel Gyrodeck, Krell
> amps (as big as microwaves), and Magneplanar electrostatic speakers
> (about six feet tall). It sounded *awesomely* life like, playing
> Beethoven quartets. I bought my first decent HiFi not long after.
>
> But then his "living room" was the size of (or bigger) my entire 5
> roomed apartment. Same chap had his entire cellar given over to rows
> of wine fridges. About 150 of them. And this was his 3rd house, in
> the Mougin hills, overlooking Cannes. His other houses were a
> chateau, and an apartment in Monaco - the last being his legal
> domicile.

I met a guy once at a hifi show and he had the whole piece, SME model
20, SME V, Koetsu, way expensive preamp, Bartolemeo power amps, Sonus
Faber Extremas.  He had five actual records in his entire collection,
one of which was an Elton John one.

Chris
-- 
Chris Eilbeck

August West  writes:

> Chris Eilbeck  writes:
>
>> I met a guy once at a hifi show and he had the whole piece, SME
>> model 20
>
> Not a 30?

He had the cheaper of the two they did at the time, 91-92 I think.

>> SME V, Koetsu
>
> That'll be the Koetsu laquered with the first menstrual blood of
> virgin albino Cossacks, with an iridium shank and a pink diamond
> stylus?

I just know it was way more expensive than the K18 I had at the time.

>> way expensive preamp, Bartolemeo power amps, Sonus Faber Extremas.
>> He had five actual records in his entire collection, one of which
>> was an Elton John one.
>
> I seriously considered buying an Elton John LP last month. 
> I went for a pint instead.

Good move!  If I'd considered owning some Elton John, I'd have to
leave regardless of whether a beer was the result or not.

> [Oh, how my sigs mock me]
> -- 
> can't stand up for falling down

I always thought you didn't know what it'd say til you hit send.

Chris
-- 
Chris Eilbeck

August West  writes:

> Chris Eilbeck  writes:
>
> Never heard a K18; I had a K9 (if came with my Akito) for about, oh,
> a day. It was *horrible*. I sold it pretty soon, and got a G1042.

I had a 1012 on an Ariston Q-Deck, then a K9 on the Linn for a while,
then the K18, then an AT ART-1.

>>> [Oh, how my sigs mock me]
>>> -- 
>>> can't stand up for falling down
>>
>> I always thought you didn't know what it'd say til you hit send.
>
> No, they appear in the composing buffer.
> It was easier to write it that way.
>
> -- 
> not the sharpest tool in the shed

Again!

Chris
-- 
Chris Eilbeck

August West  writes:

> Chris Eilbeck  writes:
>>
>> I had a 1012 on an Ariston Q-Deck, then a K9 on the Linn for a while,
>
> You didn't find the K9 horribly harsh?

Not especially.  I had not so good speakers back then, Heybrook 0.5s,
and a homemade preamp and Quad 303 power amp.

>> then the K18, then an AT ART-1.
>
> These days, I've got 3 I alternate: Reson Reca, and Linn Adikt (both
> rebodied & retipped G1042), and an Ortofon 2m Black. And some old
> ADC thing on the Technics 1510 Mk II.

I wish I had more time to tweak and fiddle with the hifi.  I'm gonna
build a turntable one day.

Chris
-- 
Chris Eilbeck

August West  writes:

> Chris Eilbeck  writes:
>>
>> I wish I had more time to tweak and fiddle with the hifi.  I'm
>> gonna build a turntable one day.
>
> That's why I have the Technics, as it allows me to play with things,
> safely. Currently, I'm very into perspex fabrication.

Once I've got a milling machine, there'll be no holding me back.  I've
yet to decide what to build but it may well have features of the Rock.

Chris
-- 
Chris Eilbeck

August West wrote:
> Chris Eilbeck  writes:
>>
>> I had a 1012 on an Ariston Q-Deck, then a K9 on the Linn for a while,
>
> You didn't find the K9 horribly harsh?
>
>> then the K18, then an AT ART-1.
>
> These days, I've got 3 I alternate: Reson Reca, and Linn Adikt (both
> rebodied & retipped G1042), and an Ortofon 2m Black. And some old ADC
> thing on the Technics 1510 Mk II.

Nothing a good psychoanalysis couldn't sort out.

On 2008-06-18, Chris Eilbeck  wrote:

> I met a guy once at a hifi show and he had the whole piece, SME model
> 20, SME V, Koetsu, way expensive preamp, Bartolemeo power amps, Sonus
> Faber Extremas.  He had five actual records in his entire collection,
> one of which was an Elton John one.

Goodbye Yellow Brick Road?


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                 and presumptuous desire for a second one."
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Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> writes:

> On 2008-06-18, Chris Eilbeck  wrote:
>
>> I met a guy once at a hifi show and he had the whole piece, SME model
>> 20, SME V, Koetsu, way expensive preamp, Bartolemeo power amps, Sonus
>> Faber Extremas.  He had five actual records in his entire collection,
>> one of which was an Elton John one.
>
> Goodbye Yellow Brick Road?

I don't remember but all of his records were the sort that hifi mags
would recommend for their audio quality, not their musical quality.

He drove a Jaguar too but one of the ugly 80/90s ones with square
headlights.

Chris
-- 
Chris Eilbeck