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What Hi-Fi?
What Hi-Fi?
Technology
Alastair Stevenson

Controversial opinion: there’s more to collecting vinyl records than audio quality

Forest Tavern pop up vinyl shop.

“Don’t you already have that?” This is a question my wife frequently asks when I’m crate digging and start examining a record.

It's a fair one. She’s usually right and I do indeed already own a copy. And, for anyone not in the world of vinyl, understanding why I may want two of the same album can be confusing.

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