Record Collector Confessions

I think I'm slowing down with buying vinyl, but ramping up with buying CDs. And now I'm starting to look at vintage iPods and vintage MacIntosh computers, ugh. Listener confession form: https://dgmono.com/confession Email: [email protected]

I have a conversation with Fredrik a.k.a. FW Rare Jazz Vinyl Collector. Hailing from Stockholm, Sweden, Fredrik is a true OG of creating internet content on jazz collecting. We discuss growing up as a metal drummer, commenting on the Jazz Collector website in the late 2000s, buying rare first pressings from Music Matters owner Ron Rambach, and compulsively checking to make sure his equipment is set up correctly, amongst other things. Fredrik's Website: https://fwrarejazzvinylcollector.com Fredrik's Instagram: https://instagram.com/fwrarejazzvinylcollector Listener confession form: https://dgmono.com/confession Email: [email protected]

In this special bonus monologue, I talk about how I'm approaching online record shopping burnout, and how my OCD with online shopping is threatening to start causing me anxiety and mess with my sleep pattern. I also read a great in-depth listener confession. Listener confession form: https://dgmono.com/confession Email: [email protected]

In this week's monologue, I give a budgeting update, which includes getting back to (trying to) stick to my $200 max per record, and I talk about how that decision has brought back a feeling of authenticity to collecting. I also give an update on my AM radio adventures, and I return to discussing my obsession with Blue Note Records, a topic I originally approaches in a confession video on YouTube several months back. YouTube Blue Note confession video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wtPtmSOx6k Listener confession form: https://dgmono.com/confession Email: [email protected]

I have a conversation with Instagram's @homefromtheforest a.k.a. Mark. Having begun collecting jazz in the late '90s, Mark is the first "real O.G." jazz collector to be a guest on the podcast. We discuss being a loner, stepping back from collecting and getting a girlfriend-now-wife, and building a collection over two decades on the salary of a delivery driver, amongst other things. Mark's IG: https://www.instagram.com/homefromtheforest Listener confession form: https://dgmono.com/confession Email: [email protected]

In this week's monologue, I talk about my experience at the WFMU Record Fair last week, buying records over $200 and the disappointment that (always) follows, linear playback as a goal in audio and collecting, enjoying the challenging of approaching linear playback in collecting, and an update on my AM radio adventure, amongst other things. Listener confession form: https://dgmono.com/confession Email: [email protected]

I have a conversation with Instagram's @midwest_record_collector a.k.a. James, our second guest hailing from Iowa! We discuss being intimidated by jazz, taking a college jazz course, the phrase "The music is the most important thing!", professional vinyl grading services, getting a higher paying job to buy more records, growing up introverted, the VC, alcoholism in our families, influence of parents, emotional intelligence, and audiophiledom, amongst other things. James' IG: https://www.instagram.com/midwest_record_collector Listener confession form: https://dgmono.com/confession Email: [email protected]

In this week's monologue I have FOUR listener confessions to read! I also give an update on my search for a preamplifier (which includes talking about a vintage DJ mixer I got recently), and I discuss an old idea to broadcast my own AM radio station, a difficult conversation with friends via a group text, and phone addiction, amongst other things. AM transmitter: https://www.ebay.com/itm/134906011913 Apt Holman preamplifier: https://www.kenrockwell.com/audio/apt/holman-preamplifier.htm Listener confession form: https://dgmono.com/confession Email: [email protected]

I have a conversation with Instagram's @thejazzbasement a.k.a. Jason, a 45 year-old gentleman from Washington D.C. who falls into the category of what I call a "heavyweight collector". We discuss buying records that cost $1,000+, making sacrifices, budgeting, sparking joy, anxiety around minimalist collecting, YouTube show and tell videos, jealousy, depression, IVF and becoming a father, losing 40 pounds, and getting kicked out of The Record Collector in L.A., amongst other things. Jason's IG: https://www.instagram.com/thejazzbasement Listener confession form: https://dgmono.com/confession Email: [email protected]

This week I discuss a fiasco related to buying a phono stage on US Audio Mart, triggering content on YouTube and the Stereophile website, subjectivity and objectivity in art criticism, and philosophy of originality and creativity, amongst other things. Saxophone Colossus video: https://youtu.be/UbOIxc42ZG8?si=UnWz8NorEcY_bpCf Stereophile Fairchild article: https://www.stereophile.com/content/brilliant-corners-19-music-among-fairchildren Stereophile Miyajima article: https://www.stereophile.com/content/brilliant-corners-17-monomania-miyajima-zero-mono-phono-cartridge Listener confession form: https://dgmono.com/confession Email: [email protected]