Moving LPs, those fragile and heavy beasts, is always a source of pain and amusement. The featured photo is from Retro Vintage Modern Hi-Fi.

Over the years, it seems we end up trying several methods of clunking these heavy things around.

These guys at Van Bonn dispensed with the crates, boxes or string approach and just piled in the albums. Of course, if they accelerate at all while they are driving,  they are going are going to have a surprise when they open the back of the truck when they get to their destination.

This is the way I have usually moved albums when I was younger. Now we use moving boxes which seal up nice and allow efficient filling and stacking of our albums.

Never tried this ribbon-tying technique. Seems to work. These last two photos are from Soul Clap Records

I think moving this warehouse of LPs might be a lot of work.

Sometimes I think our house looks like this to people who visit. But, you know, I think we still have a ways to go. Besides, CDs, being SLIGHTLY more robust, are more often tossed around like this here  🙂

But let this be a warning to all of us to keep our collections organized on a day-to-day basis – or things WILL get out of hand.

Photo from Messy Nessy Chic

Added 8 more Hong Kong and Taiwan high-fidelity magazines, along with a Swedish and French-Canadian magazine, to the Audiophile’s Guide to the Galaxy’s page on foreign-language high-end audio magazines and blogs.

That ups the total to 42 international magazines / blogs so far.

Google is really poor at helping me find these sites in Asia. I expect them to trickle in for awhile.

It is really fun to see a page I have no idea what it says but to easily recognize most of the gear on the page – and the photos, like the one of Ed Meitner that is circulating through Asia this month.

As always, the Google Chrome browser will offer to translate each page for you, or you can find another method, if you want to actually try and read some of these websites. Sometimes translations work well, sometimes not as well 🙂

Added Artesania and SolidTech high-end audio racks to the Audiophile’s Guide to the Galaxy page on high fidelity high-end audio equipment racks

When I first started this with the idea of including a photo or two from all readily available racks, I thought there wouldn’t be that many. Especially after I saw that several had gone out of business, like Zoethecus, et. al.

But nooooooo.

We’re up to 56 photos. I *think* we are getting close to having just about all of them.

These two newest additions, SolidTech and  Artesania, are both imported and available in the U.S.

The SolidTech ‘Hybrid’ photo is above and the Artesania ‘Exoteryc’ rack is pictured here below.