Cleaning up my office, unearthed my collection of bound Audio Amateur issues. Fully complete from the inaugural issue 1, 1970 to the last issue 4, 2011 under the lead of Ed Dell. Not a single one missing.
I put this together when AA's founder Ed Dell retired and first Elektor and then AudioXpress took over.
I'm thinking of putting it up for sale, but what would this be worth?
What do you guys think? Should I keep it?
Jan
I put this together when AA's founder Ed Dell retired and first Elektor and then AudioXpress took over.
I'm thinking of putting it up for sale, but what would this be worth?
What do you guys think? Should I keep it?
Jan
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Unfortunately Jan - probably not much - ans shipping will be expensive. Try here or the bay.
WISH that the new owners of the brand (or someone) could put the back issues in a file for "us" to see. SO MUCH GREAT stuff hidden in/between the pages.... especially for newbies
Charles
WISH that the new owners of the brand (or someone) could put the back issues in a file for "us" to see. SO MUCH GREAT stuff hidden in/between the pages.... especially for newbies
Charles
Hi
I have many numbers ( 90%) but not so fine.
Please let me know a reasonable number of dollar, euro, dracma, rubli, pound!!!!
I am in Italy
PS= some news about sound card interface??
Walter
@stellavox Charles, I understand they are busy scanning back issues and creating a 'vault' on a USB stick.
Fully agree that many gems are hidden in those pages!
Jan
Fully agree that many gems are hidden in those pages!
Jan
Jan,
$8.11 per volume is the average price I see for such at used/estate sale offerings. I suggest you are approaching things correctly to avoid the second sale type!
ES
(No I haven’t seen those magazines offered yet, but other similar ones. I also have in the past acquired some quite interesting materials for free from a curb on garbage collection day!). ((A price you would enjoy paying but not receiving!))
$8.11 per volume is the average price I see for such at used/estate sale offerings. I suggest you are approaching things correctly to avoid the second sale type!
ES
(No I haven’t seen those magazines offered yet, but other similar ones. I also have in the past acquired some quite interesting materials for free from a curb on garbage collection day!). ((A price you would enjoy paying but not receiving!))
It's never too late to start smoking... 🙂
Sadly, $8.11/volume is probably reality. Buyer will grumble about the cost of shipping. My mom and I cleared out many very nice, read once, books after my dad. We ended up having to haul them to the dump. We couldn't even give them away at a second hand store.
Tom
Sadly, $8.11/volume is probably reality. Buyer will grumble about the cost of shipping. My mom and I cleared out many very nice, read once, books after my dad. We ended up having to haul them to the dump. We couldn't even give them away at a second hand store.
Tom
If you want to donate it, the library would probably need a gift with that to shelve the volumes.
I gave away my 40 years of AA some time ago, I regret it at some level, but space is at a premium and I was unlikely to re-read anything. I barely ready anything printed on paper these days.
I have mine to a friend and had issues dating back to the 70’s for Speaker Builder and AA plus Glass Audio. I bought back issues on AA website.
Wish that I still had them. Better to read than the Internet. Even the stuff that was not necessarily rigorous.
Your idea is well taken, Mr. Didden, surely there is a bonafide real accredited public library near you.
Wish that I still had them. Better to read than the Internet. Even the stuff that was not necessarily rigorous.
Your idea is well taken, Mr. Didden, surely there is a bonafide real accredited public library near you.
A friend of mine gave me his collection of various audio magazines. Decades' worth. They took up two suitcases. When I moved to my current house I spent quite a few evenings flipping though them all. I kept the ones that were of particular interest to me and distilled the two suitcases' worth down to a stack about 15-20 cm tall. "One of these days" I'll cut the articles out and scan them. I'll then toss the paper.
I also prefer to read on paper, but reading on a screen is acceptable. Mostly I'm not willing to buy a larger house so I can store more stuff that I'll never look at.
That said, given that Jan's collection is nicely bound and such, perhaps a college library would be interested.
Tom
I also prefer to read on paper, but reading on a screen is acceptable. Mostly I'm not willing to buy a larger house so I can store more stuff that I'll never look at.
That said, given that Jan's collection is nicely bound and such, perhaps a college library would be interested.
Tom
I have the RCA Radiotron Engineers Handbook on CD ROM.
Would be great to have that kind of access but when it was done back in the day it was not cheap (order CD ROMs)
And to Tom’s point, I am old school and I like paper (unless I have to do a search 🤣)!
So fortunate to have had access to those publications. That was a forum back in the 80’s.
I visit the reference Library in Toronto often to read and scan bizarre and rare audio documents. I am not the only one. The archive they hold is a treasure trove.
Your amazing volumes need the right home. A younger collector can be good?
But then again, where is the world going to be in 20, 30 ,40 years?
What is the selling price anyway?
The world may be in a place where the CD-ROMs and other electronic storage media are no longer readable and the paper will once again be valuable.
I have many AA and full set of Glass Audio, not in great shape unfortunately. I read selected articles and refer to many over time as they are still relevant today ( looking at Ed Simon’s articles on line conditioning right now).
Mr Didden, I hope you find a home for your collection of bound volumes. Some suggestions: technical colleges, technical high schools, maker spaces.
I have many AA and full set of Glass Audio, not in great shape unfortunately. I read selected articles and refer to many over time as they are still relevant today ( looking at Ed Simon’s articles on line conditioning right now).
Mr Didden, I hope you find a home for your collection of bound volumes. Some suggestions: technical colleges, technical high schools, maker spaces.