hearing is believing

About me



Born in 1972, I am living and working from my home, a little village near Besançon, in France. My passion for vinyl records goes back to my teens. My father being a musician and a music lover, I grew up in a rich and varied musical environment, soaking in the jazz, classical music, French songs, rock
'n' roll... all of this with tape recordings and vinyl records of course, laser disc was not yet invented! But as many others, I gave up little by little the black record to give in to the temptation of the CD, at the end of the 80s. I let go my collection of LPs, one after the other, over the years. Then I began to regret it some years ago, when music begun to dematerialize itself with the appearance of the mp3 format, and when I realized that most of my CDs had badly resisted to many years of playing... Thus it is quite naturally that I returned to my first love: the vinyl.

Where did I get this idea of creating a vinyl records shop ?

Simply when I began to realize, in early 2007, how much it is difficult to buy records confidently on the Internet. There is too often an enormous gap between the described condition and the actual condition of the vinyls you can buy. Most of the available records are found from community websites, where individuals sell or buy to other individuals. The breach of trust is thus present because this kind of deal makes difficult the possibility of being paid off for an unsuitable record. Specially when it is about a unsealed second-hand item which is by definition already marked by the wear of time.

Also, the absence or the poverty of pictures of the vinyls for sale is frequent. Thus it's almost impossible to have an idea of the record's real condition before receiving it home. When there are photos presenting the records, they are almost always too small and not good enough to appreciate the slightest detail. Most of the time, unpersonal photos are used by sellers, downloaded from another person's web page. So it doesn't show the right record. Being a former photographer, I wanted to combine my passion for vinyls with my love for photography and my skills in Webdesign.



 

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