Lending vinyl to friends

[Hifiver]

Do you do this?

What if your turnrable and stylus cost many times more than the person's you were lending to?

 

[daytona600]

Nooooooooooooooooooooo !

 

[Integralista]

Noooo! But just among my two-three very experienced friends with good systems. They have large LP collections, it has a sense to try some other music which they have and is not in my LP collection.

 

[Cricketbat70]

My dad used to. He often used to tell the tale of lending an album to someone and when he asked for it back the denied having it (not lying just forgotten my dad had lent it to them). Any way months later my dad was at another friends and found the album he had lent to the first person, my dad used to mark his album sleeves so he knew it was his, anyway he explained the situation to the other friend and even bought it back off them. I don't think he ever lent albums out again.

 

[matthewpianist]

I never lend vinyl, CDs or books to anyone. I take great care of my collections, and some of the things I have are irreplaceable other than finding copies in equally good condition on the used market, often at several times the price I paid. These days it's also less necessary as a way of sharing anyway, because it's easy to recommend music by sharing streaming links (which may then lead to friends buying their own physical copies). There's also that quaint old-fashioned approach of having someone over and playing some records 🙂

 

[Al ears]

Do you do this?

What if your turnrable and stylus cost many times more than the person's you were lending to?

It's a no from me....
If a friend was particularly keen on hearing an album I owned I would invite them over to listen to it on my equipment

 

[Hifiver]

I have a Well Tempered Simplex 2 turntable, £1,995 with a £1,800 cartridge. My friend has a Rega Planar 3 with a £50 ish cartridge.

Is there a risk that lending him my vinyl will negatively affect the records or likewise, him lending me his will affect my cartridge?

 

[Al ears]

I have a Well Tempered Simplex 2 turntable, £1,995 with a £1,800 cartridge. My friend has a Rega Planar 3 with a £50 ish cartridge.

Is there a risk that lending him my vinyl will negatively affect the records or likewise, him lending me his will affect my cartridge?

Not really, assuming his cartridge is set up correctly and he knows how to look after an LP.
Potential damage has little to do with the cost of equipment it is played on.

 

[Entrigo]

Absolutely not! Used to lend CDs/DVDs in the 90s, when I was young and carefree (read: stupid) but after having about half never finding the way back, I stopped.

I might still lend a CD to a very trusted person (my brother or brother in law - people who can't hide 🤣) , but I would never lend them records, though both are "vinylistas"

(sorry horrible word but hey!)

 

[GroeneLeeuw]

To some friends, yes.

 

[Cricketbat70]

I lent a CD to a work colleague at a job i had for 18months. Asked and asked before he left and asked his brother before I left but never got it back. I never found that CD in any shops again Madchester 40 Wicked Hits. I found similar but not the exact track listing. I found a Madchester Spotify play list a couple of years ago its 12 hours long.
I didnt learn, when I left that job and started where I have now been for 23 years I lent a CD to another work colleague, he left about two weeks after I lent him the CD. Fortunately I was able to buy another copy of that (Fine Young Cannibals Greatest Hits)
After those two I've never lent another CD.
I've never lent any of my Vinyl to anyone.

 

[Hifiver]

@Cricketbat70 I only lent one LP and that was to a boss I had. He returned it, no problem.

Here is where I was taught a lesson.....Another boss had no money and needed petrol to get home. He asked me for £20. This was about 15 years ago. I never saw that money again and he said he could not remember me lending him it.

 

[Hifiver]

A guy at work once encouraged me to listen to a load of his CD's and handed me the case they were in to take home....When I returned to work a couple of days later I found that he had quit his job. I never saw him again.