How BIG is yours?

I'm not 40 and already have CRS disease. I also have audiophilia (which most people on this site have). CDC has deemed this to be one of the most highly contageous diseases--for which there is no cure, only treatment of the symptoms by buying more music than you can listen to and better cables and power cords until you fill a closet of cords--and would sell them, but can't remember what you have to sell or where you put them.

972 CDs and 898 LPs. 130 CDs are audiophile labels, 238 LPs are audiophile. How do I know this? They are all categorized and databased--I'm sick, really sick--I need help.

Without actually counting them, I'd guess 3,000 lps, l,500 CDs, l50 R-R tapes (prerecorded), l00 cassettes, and several hundred 78s. Play 'em all, too, which is why I don't get out of the house much.

I have been collecting most every artist new and old in jazz, rock and heavy metal. Some for audiophile interests but mostly for musical talents. I have 2000+ Cd's and about 600 LP's. I sold alot of vinyl lately because of the time and convienence factor. This is also my problem with newer formats in that I don't want to be limited to what I can listen to based on format. Invest in software and happy listening!!!

At last inventory, my LP collection was about 5,000. The CD and SACD's amount to only a few hundred. What is more important than quantity is the quality of the collection. If I were ask to be totally honest and remove any LP's from my collection that I would not mind losing, I would have trouble finding a hundred.

Its nice to have a large collection, but to have one where you can reach for any spline protruding from the shelf and get a record that makes you happy is pure bliss.

so far i have a modest collection of 600 vinyls and 150 CDs.
Buying records for me is like buying sigarettes for smoker. Every week I do go to Manhattan and shop(or exchange with collectors) records. I've almost stopped buying CDs -- only for rare(non-radio) jazz and some "underground" newly issued CDs.
My music interests belong to the meaningful music -- music that is aimed to describe our life in different ways: realistic, surrealistic and even abstract.
For example: I do admire musicians and composers that can play the picture in museum.
Sometimes I go for the exhibition and I realize that some of these pictures I've already heard without even seing them.
I always give preference to listening to my new aquired records that I've never heard or heard a long time ago rather than listening the same records with new power cord.