Do you agree with John Atkinson (and me)?

@mahler123 ...pinhead angels have become how much per T drive x number of T's

on the 'drive' which drives nothing as done before....
Nothing moves anymore, if one wishes.....control 'knobs' became 'quaint', "How....Retro...", they coo....

@willywonka ...110 mil?  Mmmm...there's 2,525 million seconds in an 80 year lifespan, no breaks for sleep, eat, excrete, repeat to listen to all that, a lot of which you'd rather not or have done.....  OK, break time is over...

@bruce19 Well put, actually.  V goods...Vgods?  We're already surrounded and didn't bother to surrender 'till just recently....

Vintage v. SOTA, what we had when v. what's at hand at present.
The price one pays for that which improves what's experienced used to seem to have more of an effect on what was heard....  Of late, only 'those who can' and the truly committed ( and may have been *L* ) can lay or nay 'getting closer' or fell....

@bolong ....*ironic L*  I've got mine....you?  Good.... ;) 

People are strange: Yup. We have met the enemy, and 'they' is us....

@noromance So?  Keep the media if it has it's charms that you like....simple.  I've got LP, cassettes, cd mine and CD's, hard and SSDrives, the odd dongle....

The idea is to smile and enjoy....how is up to you, and what scratches That Itch. 
As for self, that's a conundrum unto itself....
 Yes, I enjoy more than I introspect. but the analytical is there, Listening... the sounds, the mix, any notable nuance.....

'Plays into my Walsh fixations"...*L*  That's mostly my intent of late...

Streaming just enlarges what I can abuse them with.... ;)

Clarity, as always, my goal....

My posts? *meh* L*

When I was younger, it wasn’t even close.  During college, I’m pretty sure I never had more than 75-100 lps max.  Who could afford a large collection?  I’d sell stuff to help purchase new, and of course Chicago had a great FM station - WXRT.  In grad school, in Boston, same thing, no money, great station - was it WBCN?  Anyway, I have way more lps now than I ever did in my youth, both because I can afford it and because I have a nice house I’ve been settled in for 25(!) years.  Even so, it’s “only” about 750 lps, so my systems cost way more.  But as others have pointed out, I have a pretty small number of go-to lps that I listen to frequently, so I’d be surprised if I listen to more than 250 during a typical year (not including streaming, of course).  

I think I was driven into the Audiophile passion by my passion for Music (classical).

I spent the 70s and 80s listening to LPs an a reasonable 'HiFi' system - Ohm Walsh speakers and I forget the rest.

I changed jobs in 1990 and one of my colleagues was a TAS & Stereophile reader and, knowing that my wife and I were avid music listeners he suggested I bring some of my discs (black or shiny) to his apartment.

It changed my life, I rediscovered what the Quad ESLs had given me in about 1970.

So, I guess for me being an audiophile is a means to an end, not an end in itself.  Though there is nothing wrong with its being an end in itself.

@bdp24 - A friend of mine who used to work for the Banana Records chain and later Capitol Records used to be the manager of Cornell Hurd and the Mondo Hotpants Orchestra.... 

For me, it’s always been about music and enjoying music and finding a system that makes my music sound better. When my parents owned a record store in Denver in the 80s, the gear used in the shop was a couple of run-of-mill turntables, a few receivers, headphones for people to listen to albums to, and basic 2-way speakers for ambient music in the shop. None of that was fancy. Our home hi-fi was a Marantz receiver, bookshelf speakers, a TT, a reel-to-reel tape deck, and eventually, a CD player.

Listening to music was the primary purpose. I have fond memories of putting on the Stones’ Hot Rocks on the TT, sitting in my dad’s recliner and listening with headphones to that record over and over.

Now, I have music playing almost all the time at home with the family. I do dance parties with my kids, stream music for wall-paper purposes, and then when everyone else is in bed, I put my headphones on and do some purposeful listening.

To each their own I say. If you’re an audiophile forever searching for the next magic box that sounds better than the last and you only listen to the same 50 albums from 50 years ago, great. For me, considering my financial constraints of raising 3 young kids and 20yrs away from retirement, a good mid-hi-fi system to enjoy my growing music collection is where it’s at for me.