How BIG is yours?

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.

Well, our collection probably tops out at a few hundred CD's, which is probably a bit lopsided considering the 2-channel portion of our system retails around 11 or 12k (not including cabling). well, i suppose 300 CD's retails for around 4 or 5k (wow! never thought about that), so I guess it's not THAT lopsided. we only have 2 or 3 LPs, inherited, which is why we haven't gotten into analog yet. We do almost all of our shopping online, so it's hard to get into vinyl, which is kinda sad...

Like Abstract7, I am a fellow sufferer of CRS disease, especially the "can't remember what you have or where you put them" part. I have CDs covering every square inch of horizontal storage space in my house and in my cars (before I got married, my collection covered every square inch of horizontal space period. This made walkin gin my house a real adventure). I also have a basement full of cables, etc. I love music and audoio equipment, but I have no interest in organizing music or audio equipment, so I really have no idea how many CDs I have. I also have in storage about a thousand LPs from college that I'm sure are unplayable by now.

I'm not sure, probably over 1200 LPs and a similar number of Cds, and between 40 and 50 SACDs (growing as good releases come out). These days I tend to buy mostly vinyl and SACDs, holding off on CDs unless I know it won't come out on SACD and I want the musical performance (such as the recent NY Philharmonic boxed sets that the orchestra has released on its own label). Used to have more LPs but sold a lot back in college, to my current chagrin. Sean, wait till you go over 50. The senior moments become more and more frequent. And Abstract7, I should hire you to catalog my collection for me, as I just plain can't find the time or the patience to do it.