![]() ![]() "I was drawn to it because I'm a DJ and I collect a lot of vinyl," he says. There was a time when you couldn't give a tape player away."įor Will Walsh of The Vintage Hub, a specialist outlet for vintage furniture, moving into hi-fi was a natural progression. "There's also a lot of interest in cassette decks," adds Harte, who also runs the nearby Brocante Market. "But we don't get those people in every day. "The enthusiasts like to be able to replace the turntable or the speakers or the amp without having to buy a whole new system," Harte explains. ![]() Most people will spend between €100 and €150 on a standard functioning record player, but serious audiophiles can spend up to €800 on a system, although they usually prefer to buy it in parts. "It's mainly record players from the 1970s and early 1980s," he says. Harte reports a steady trade in vintage hi-fi. I listen to my all records - they're there to be used." "Or they buy the record but only listen to the free download that you get with it. "I know collectors who buy two copies of a record - one to play and one to keep," says Richard Harte of Anonymous, a vintage furniture shop on Dublin's Francis Street. Only 52pc of British vinyl buyers had a turntable that they actually used. A further 48pc owned a turntable but didn't use it. A 2016 ICM poll found that 7pc of the people who collected vinyl didn't even own a turntable. But not all vinyl buyers play their records. Last year, 3.2 million records were sold in the UK - 53pc more than the previous year. That's according to the BPI, the organisation that represents the British music industry. And the people who dumped perfectly viable hi-fi equipment are kicking themselves. Very few people predicted the huge resurgence of interest in vintage hi-fi.Īll over the country, record players, speakers, amps and radiograms are being brought back into active service. Not so many people listened to records and when the turntables broke, they were tossed in a skip. ![]()
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