CD and/or LP collections. Is it about the music?

Currently, about 5000 LPs, 400 45s, 50 reel to reel (mixed 10.5" & 7"), about 330 CDs, 60 csss. & 40-60 78 rpm disks. I generally listen to a whole disk/LP, and like others above, tend to go in streaks where I follow a specific group, sound, or artist for a period of time. I would say that my spending is about 50/50 between equipment/tweeks and music medium with most funds going to LP.

Hrm. I think I'm as prone to "streaks" as the rest of you-- a streak being when you find, for example, a dead blues harmonica player you'd previously never heard of, buy all of his albums, then read the liner notes and buy the albums of his major influences, etc.

Maybe my problem is I tend to listen to discs before I buy, which usually means through crappy PC speakers or music store headphones, and in that brief exposure I don't get a true sense of the music and I'm passing good stuff by.

Ha, I just defined "problem" as having only 600 CDs instead of 4000. Only on Audiogon...

About 400 cd's and 50 lp's. CDR's have changed me too as I've digitized all of my cassette tape bootlegs, greatly increasing my cd total.

Buscis2, if you're listening to Katy Lied, you likely realize that this is the worst recorded of all the Dan/Fagen LP's. If any LP every CRIED OUT for remixing, it is Katy Lied. But then, the details surrounding this recording are legendary. Pity, too, because nearly every track is just dynamite, IMHO. If you MUST listen to these songs on CD, the KL songs on the CITIZEN compilation are much better than the orignal discs, strange as that may seem.

Me, 2800+ LP's, about 300 CD's. It is ALL about the music for me. I keep adding to my LP's at the rate of about a dozen per week, sometimes more. I got into jazz about two years ago and there went a few quick large. Right now, I am buying some newer music, but also carefully purchasing upgrades to many of my favorite from the 60's and 70's. Original pressings are mostly what I have, but some were kept away from the swill of the party crowds of yore better than others..................

Unfortunately, you absolutely right 4yanx. It seems when they were on the ABC label (Can't Buy A Thrill, Pretzel Logic, Countdown To Ecstasy, Katy Lied and Royal Scam), the sound was not as great as the later recordings with MCA.

Fortunately, once their "musical magic" starts, the sonics tend to take a back seat.