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How large is your music collection?

At one time I had about 5000 CDs and I sold them due to the fact that I had no room for them and most of them I didn't listen to at all. In the last few years I add a title to my collection only if it is really good and worthy of multiple listens and the enjoyment value is high. My current collection is less than 1000 for both CD and vinyl.

I've got a friend that has so many CDs, SACDs, LPS, etc. that even if he listened for 8 hours a day he would never repeat the same selection in more than 10 years. To me that just doesn't make sense but it makes him happy so I guess that is what counts.

How about everyone here? Do you add just to add or do you keep your collection, like me, to just the best of the best.
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martykl
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Just over 1,000 LPs
Just under 4,500 CDs
App. 1,900 downloaded tracks
Under 100 SACD/DVD-A

I think I'm the bizarro universe Mike Lavigne:

Regular play last month was one CD - Danny Gatton "Live". So far this month, it is also one CD - Lindsey Buckingham's "Out of The Cradle".

I do have that evolving 6 disc rotation in my car, but that's a little different...

Marty
scousepasty
106 posts
 
Added another 3,500 - 5,000+ classical & jazz albums to my collection, since my posting in September, from a record store closing down. Deal was too good to count them all, but the boxes have filled an 18ft garage floor. It includes some 10" Columbia classical EP's, 10" Jazz EP's & 78's, new & s/hand.
Plus a couple of records a month from my subscriptions to the Jazz re-issues and about 30 SACD's & c.d.
Also got around to getting a carpenter to build some floor to ceiling shelving in the listening room, which I'm using to store the new heavyweight vinyl and classic box sets.
mikelavigne
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from Timrhu

from Mike Lavigne....

"10,000 Lps, of which 3000 are played regularly"

that statement blows me away. Please define regularly.

i will try to explain the best i can. sorry for the delay, i missed your question in December and just saw it this morning.

in my music barn i do have 10,000 Lps. of which 3000 are actually in my listening room with me which are all played from time to time. i listen to music 7 days a week, with weekends included likely averaging 3-4 hours per day. maybe 50%+ of the time it's Lps.

i have 1000+ 45rpm Lps, all in room, that are my most frequent played Lps. i'm a guy who 75% of the time will listen to one cut or one side of an Lp. if i am really into it i may listen to 15 to 20 or more different Lps in a day. other days 3 to 5.

there are box sets in room where not all Lps have been played.

i would guess that every one of the 3000 Lps in room have been listened to at least once in the last 2 and 1/2 years. most 3 or 4 times and some once a week. is that '3000 are played regularly'? i think so.

sometimes i'll just grab a hndfull of Lps from a spot on my shelf and play those....which gets me into more seldomely played Lps.

obviously, the roster of in-room Lps changes over time as some new ones enter and others leave for my 'B' shelf.
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