Please share photos of your Vinyl cabinet/shelving

By 2015 quite a few musicians I had been involved with had died (still more have died since, including Evan Johns. John Wicks, and Emitt Rhodes), and I started seriously contemplating my own mortality (I'm no spring chicken). I looked at my racks of LP's and CD's (around 5,000 of each), and wondered to myself how many of them would I have time to listen to even once more in my remaining time on Earth. I went through them all, deciding which I could live without, and got rid of about 1,500 of each.

Then Covid hit, and with all upcoming gigs cancelled I started watching YouTube videos, where I discovered "The Vinyl Community". Record collectors of all stripes, making and posting videos about their favorite LP's, artists/bands, etc. I was introduced to both artists/bands I had either somehow missed in times past, or current ones I was unaware of. Thanks Vinyl Community (and the What's On Your Turntable Tonight posters here on Agon), now you have me again addicted. ;-) 

I've sold 18,000 records in the past 30 years.  I have a rule, if I don't potentially want to hear a record 3 times a year, out it goes.   I only have so much storage space (or desire to accumulate/hear more 78s and LPs.  I still buy many CDs, big box sets (classical) cheap per CD and lots of great jazz (especially where the original LP is very expensive).  

@fleschler I'm humbled. That's both impressive and disconcerting at the same time!

@noromance With 28,500 LPs and 7,000 78s, I need bookshelf type storage (in category and alphabetical order).  As to 7,000 CD storage, I use stacked drawers from Can-Am.  They are located in the middle of the storage room.   Very convenient.

@donlduck1 Good point. I've a modest 1300+ of NM in record store style (and around 600 VG+/VG stored in crates) and it does take up space.

I believe floor space leads to one style over the other.

I'm surprised so many folks use bookshelf-style over record store style shelving. It would drive me nuts looking at spines instead of covers!

I would build it store style. 

See my details. Custom built. If I were to do it again, I would build it store style. 

My large collection of LPs and 78s are shelved in custom made wall units.  My records moved about 1/8" during the 1994 Northridge earthquake, a few miles from my then home.   The cost is higher then EKET and KALLAX but superior.  3/4" thick melamine surfaced MDF (or is it high density fiberboard-I forgot)  with 20" wide shelves, stacked 7 rows high, screwed into 2X6 studs in the walls.  I use a step stool for the top shelf (I'm 5'11").  To house 17,000 LPs and 4,000 78s (half my collection) the cost in June, 2019 was $5,000 on 3 walls.   I used my 1993 identical shelving from my former house in a shed and garage to store an additional 7,500 LPs.  

Thanks 1111art.  I was in the film and video business for 50 years and we did both 3D and 2D animation along the way.  I became a Disney fan as a very young child mostly through the Comic Book stories of Carl Barks.  We had an ex Disney animator on staff for a while who worked there in the 40's and 50's.  He shared some animation drawings with me and at least one of them shows up on the wall.  I also collected many other items on my on, but as time marches on the time to let some of it find a new home looms large.  Same holds true of my audio obsession.  Things like a Quad preamp from the mid 70's.  

@1111art Interesting career! Your profile pic has Aubrey Beardsley vibes.

donlduck, I like how clean it all looks. BTW, I'm a Disney artist by trade...I see you have a few pics of the mouse around your house.

We have a ladder that works with the room.  We keep it in the media room closet (not pictured).  It helps that the albums are alphabetical by artist with only the classical section sorted independent and the rest of genres together.

@donlduck1 I was able to see them just by cutting and pasting the links. Are you tall enough to reach those shelves to remove LPs and CDs or is that primarily acting as storage but not constant access? There was probably a ladder or a stool in the room not pictured.

Obviously I don't understand how to attach pics to post

Room's a bit messing from serving as bedroom for guest.  Shelves go all around ceiling except over front wall were system is located.  Hope pictures load.

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I use a 9 cube shelf unit I bought from that giant online retailer.

Bluetooth LEDs are installed in front and in the back of each cube making it easy to see everything! Currently is holding over 600 LPs....

@nikonnola very nice looking shelves. I have ordered two of the four rack ones for my music area. Unfortunately they are on extreme back order because the company can’t get steel. It’s been a month now hopefully they can come up with some supplies soon. I have 1200 LPs and had hoped to fit them all into 2× 4 shelf units. I got the LP backing stops plus the casters. 

@tony1954, you did not read my post carefully.  Audiogon does not allow you to upload images in posts.  Instead, it allows you to embed links to outside hosted images.  It is two very different things...

@sbrownnw 

As you can see from other posts that it is indeed possible to add photos to your post.

Personally I use Imgur. Just upload the photo to Imgur, copy the link, then use the picture upload feature by pasting the URL.

Like this.

Please see my profile for a nice customized vinyl rack as Audiogon still does not allow image upload to posts:

my system

@boxcarman: Nope, it’s the QUAD ESL (with it’s front metal grill removed), introduced in 1957. If you manage to hear one, you WILL be impressed as hell. Like all other loudspeakers not without it’s faults and limitations, but it remains unmatched at reproducing the human voice and the timbre of acoustic instruments.

@noromance, is that a Dahlquist panel speaker in the background with a monoblock underneath?  If so, I am impressed as H.  

All Boltz. Strong and sturdy but pricey when you add the wheels, backing and dividers for the shelves. 

Noromance, much appreciated!

@bdp24 +1 LWlll Reading his autobiography. 

@deadhead1000 Not a bachelor. Basement dweller where concrete sounds better than wood floors and flimsy walls.

@1111art I use a photo host https://postimg.cc

How are you guys posting photos so they show up in your posts?

I like the idea of showing off CD shelving as well.

@noromance: Loudon! A favorite of mine.

I can’t post pics, but can safely recommend the EKET rack from (what else? ;-) Ikea. I have fifteen of the 4-cubicle EKET, stacked three high and five wide, each EKET secured to the one above and/or below it (Ikea offers a kit of parts for doing so). The total assembly (with optional but recommended feet) measures 7’2" tall by 11’6" wide, with sixty (15 x 4) 12-3/4" cubicles. Each cubicle is also 12-3/4" tall, just barely enough for jacketed-LP’s (which is fine with me. Less ability of dust to accumulate on them ;-) . The cubicles are 13" deep, which I prefer to the excessive (imo) depth of the Kallax---which also suffers (again, imo) from an open backside (come on in dust!). Each 4-cubicle EKET sells for $65 in white, $75 in blonde, light grey, and charcoal. The charcoal sold for $50 when I bought mine a few years ago, imo a great value.

I compared the EKET to Ikea’s slightly cheaper Kallax, and went with the former. More structurally sound; there are numerous accounts of Kallaxes collapsing under the significant weight of LP’s, but I have not seen a single report of an EKET collapsing. Some have added bracing to the back of the Kallax, which I would strongly suggest (as well as a back panel to keep out dust). Or running them from side wall to side wall, so that collapse is impossible. My EKET stacks are absolutely unmovable, feeling like they are a part of the room’s structure. I just hope my floor doesn’t collapse!

Vinyl? Vinyl? Got rid of that stuff years ago...

How about some interesting CD display cases?

I bought two of these racks from Boltz. Each shelf holds 180LP’s so 700 or so per unit. The casters allow it to be moved around. It met the wife acceptance factor as well.  

@noromance @bkeske 

Damn, making me jealous guys! Bachelors??

DIY record store style. 

Thanks to @bkeske for illustrating my ineptitude in understanding the question. Back in a minute.😌

I wouldn’t call mine unique, but a popular choice. IKEA Kallax shelving units.

Many LP’s added since I took that pic, so some things have had to shift or be moved.

I posted the above with some tongue in cheek as it’s not what meets the standard idea of a rack. However, it sounds the best for little money. I’m not even sure I’d use anything else. I tried wood, steel, granite etc. in various configurations and this sounds the best. Note that Nobsound springs are used under all components.