RE: Vinyl records - an item interesting just for collectors?

That's a lovely collection ! I've still got mine in the loft somewhere, mostly 1970's rock and heavy metal with a couple of the coloured vinyl limited editions that were popular back then. I've even got the first album I ever bought, a slightly uncommon copy of Hawkwind's "Warrior at the Edge of Time" were the cover folds out to make a shield. Does anyone remember 78's ? My grandparents and parents had them, although by the time I started buying LP's they were being phased out.

I think vinyl has a great future. The sound quality is massively better than any music you can get online or in digital formats where the files are compressed and lose the finer details. I can also see it coming back for long-term archival use. It lasts far longer than data recorded electromagnetically on most digital media. Floppy disks and cassettes are already fading into nothingness.