Cd storage..what's an audiophile to do?

I've been looking at this very closely myself as of late and can second the recommendation for Treedesigns. I think that this is what I will be going with myself, but there are a couple of other vendors worth looking at. The CD storage racks that I REALLY wanted can be had at Can-Am (www.can-am.ca) ...but they are a bit expensive, though not unreasonably so, considering the solidity of the product. I also thought that Sorice (www.sorice.com) offered a nice product, and when you request a catalog they send along an introductory pricing offer. I had also looked at CDHoldings (www.cdholdings.com), who had some interesting choices as well. If you want to try something on the cheap, aside from DIY of course, you could do what I have been doing. Look for a store that sells Sauder brand products. These are typically found at Target, Meijer, Value City, etc. They make a CD rack that holds 161 discs and costs about $20. It's one of those cheap, pre-fab units that you assemble yourself, but is actually surprisingly solid in build and really does not look bad at all. They don't take up much space and the look of several of these units lined up next to each other is discreet and perfectly acceptable.

I had a cabinet maker make a cabinet for me. Pull out drawers. Each drawer holds approximately 250CDs and there are 5 drawers. It's made out of natural mahagony and uses very heavy rails.

Personally, I folded on trying to keep all of the jewel cases and got a number of those Case Logic folder style deals (the big ones, holding around 280 CD's each). Unfortunately, I just didn't have the room too keep all the boxes and had been anguishing over how to store all of the CDs. It finally pushed me over the edge when (in addition to the fact that the CD's were literally taking over my appartment) I was hanging out with a bunch of jazz musicians over the course of a 36-hour barbeque memorial day weekend and they all seemed to come equipped with their own folder of 200+ CDs to share. Call me crazy, but I was converted. However, I still do have 2-3 big old shopping bags filled with now-empty jewel boxes. I suppose my conversion isn't official until I decide what to do with them...

Mezmo, I support you in making the transition. To help you make it official, I'll take a bunch of them off your hands, paying all costs. I am hard on jewel cases.

Mezmo: I have been looking for a way to store CD's that will be burned from our old cassette collection (and isolate them from the rest of the CD's as well). I assume that these things look like books and can be placed on a bookshelf and will look into them. I don't plan on keeping the cassettes, so will have to make backup copies of the rare, popular (to us) and out of print ones and could use a smaller book to store these.