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How BIG is yours?

That is, music collection. Seems like everyone is proud of their big (physically, cost-wise etc) stereo systems. I want to know how big your music collection is. I always ask when I conduct a transaction, half out of curiosity, half wondering whether to trust the sonic biases of someone who owns maybe fifty-sixty albums/CDs tops. I'll start: I have around 500 LPs and 1500 CDs, more and more of which are the excellent DCC Gold and XRCD variety. Would you rather spend $100 on trying music you haven't heard or trying a new power cord (no wrong answer here, I do both)?
classicjazz
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swampwalker
5,138 posts
 
Sean- two things go at 40, one is the knees and I forget the other one.

On thread, about 300-400 of each.
kjg
171 posts
 
"Can't wait till i'm 40 to see what begins to go then... "

You don't want to know...
sean
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Thanks for those kind words of encouragement guys... : ) Sean
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detlof
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I've been collecting since the late fiftees and I've stopped counting the LPs long ago. Mostly classical and Jazz though. Goes into many thousands and takes up lots of space. Everytime I had to move house, the movers thought me nuts, which I probably am. One of my dear friends remarked, that if I were to play one after the other without a break, I wouldn't go through a tenth of them before I was to kick the bucket. He's probably right. Cheers,
gregm
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About 2.500 LPs and +1000 cds. One way of counting LPs is to measure the length of space when tighly stacked. ABout 225 LPs to the metre. So what I'm really saying is, I have a bit over 11 metres in LP, 3 metres of which is jazz & blues (the rest is classical).

AND yes, I would still buy s/ware over the power cord... which is silly IMO, as I would enjoy the cord immediately and all of the time -- whereas, how many times would I listen to my latest version of, say, Mahler's 2nd!!!

BTW, Detlof, I feel for you -- what a nightmare! I happily consent to helping you get rid of some, a few metres, say, of that paper packaged plastic that takes up so much (expensive) space... any time.
Cheers!
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