Where did the "A" come from?

My father and various contacts of his (some now sadly dead) have/had collections of classical music and opera etc. My understanding is that the records are of little value if they are LPs recorded as such. (Some very old LPs may have been re-recorded 78s and therefore have some rarity value - this was a business my father was in about 55 years ago).

But many of the recordings on LPs and certainly on CD have been available in other digital formats and now possess little value in an of themselves, unless the performer/artist/piece was especially under recorded for their 'fame' at the time.

I have listed approx 250 LP's and looking at whats left I reckon there is going to be about 400 LP's plus about 20-30 boxed collections. If you would like a copy of the list let me know where to send it and I will be glad to oblige. As far as the CD collection goes I have not looked at them yet.

I should be finished the list of LP's by end of next week.

In the case of classical music I presume any good recordings have been reissued on CD.

That is a reasonable presumption, but perhaps surprisingly not wholly true. A huge amount of stuff has been issued on CD, some of it for the first time, but some of my LPs contain music still unissued on CD.

Problem for the OP may be that CDs are now on the way out, much as LPs were in the late 80s. Many people now download stuff if they aren't bothered about the info in the accompanying booklet. Second-hand prices are falling noticeably.