A lesson in keeping old LPs and/or the means to play them?

[jbuck919]

You tell me.

The LP of the great Stockholm Chamber Choir compendium on LP available from E-Bay. (I did not keep it, and no, I'm not going to jump off a bridge over it.)

http://www.ebay.com/itm/EUROPAISCHE-CHO ... 3cd402b6a7

The cheapest I can find the OOP CD re-issue with a different title:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/ ... dition=all

[erato]

The reissued 6 CD box is 17 Euros (deduct VAT) on amazon france:

http://www.amazon.fr/dp/B00KQZQJQS/ref= ... W3T6HRYXLQ

[slofstra]

You tell me.

The LP of the great Stockholm Chamber Choir compendium on LP available from E-Bay. (I did not keep it, and no, I'm not going to jump off a bridge over it.)

http://www.ebay.com/itm/EUROPAISCHE-CHO ... 3cd402b6a7

The cheapest I can find the OOP CD re-issue with a different title:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/ ... dition=all

The price is fiction. No one has ever actually paid that for that CD, and no one ever will, unless they've lost their marbles, and soon, all their money, on ill advised purchases.

Try the following interesting brief experiment. On amazon, select the music category in the search box. Now, enter a very generic search term, like "Beethoven". Next, sort on price, high to low.

Here is what I found, today, when I performed the experiment.

http://www.amazon.ca/gp/offer-listing/B ... ition=used

Kubelik's SACD recording of Beethoven's Pastoral for $6,293.10 or higher.

Check the listing tomorrow and likely the price will be even higher.

If you're interested in why this happens, and it has nothing to do with demand for that particular recording, here is one explanation:

http://www.michaeleisen.org/blog/?p=358

[absinthe]

Absolutely right about keeping the equipment. I was recently lucky enough to acquire an LP (of Robert Still's Concerto for Strings and his Elegie). Not so expensive, just a pain and a half to find. Decca SXL 6281. I transcribed it to digital for convenience but thankfully the vinyl is flawless. It needed no treatment other than some rumble filtering.

It's unlikely to be commercially mastered - Nimbus had hoped to reissue it but Decca won't agree apparently. So....without the LP I'd never hear the works.