How many LP's

Good gosh!!!

These are numbers I was not expecting!
14,000,     416 linear feet.........

How do you guys remember what you have?  Catalog?  How is that done?

No Alzheimer's in this group!

I wondered how many were " in rotation ".........that you actually listened to, vs collected 

100 sounds like a real number. To me

So, What Turntable & cartridge is best...

Lol

Is there a concensus, big LP's guys favorite albums?

Many thanks

soon to be vinyl junkie

jeff

Over the years, I organized the records in my own way; different people have different ways of doing this. There was, and remains, a sort of "dumping ground" section for copies I rejected at one point, or duplicates of records that aren’t terribly valuable. Though I got rid of a lot of that when I moved, I didn’t completely eliminate my own "bargain bin"--it’s where I plunder sometimes. I did create a fairly detailed schedule of the more valuable records, by box number, as I packed them. It didn’t necessarily list everything within a category, but enough so I knew what was there, and highlighted the stuff I was most concerned with losing.
When I arrived in Austin, I originally started shelving stuff, and sticking post-its on the shelf sections that corresponded to the "inventory." But, since then, I’ve done much more arranging- main stream rock by alphabet, obscure prog now has several shelves, ditto Beatles, Zep, etc.
The classical stuff I haven’t combed through yet. Some "audiophile" stuff in the "audiophile" records section- e.g. old D2D, and most of the EMI ASDs are now on a couple shelves, but still lot’s to do.
As to memory, that's one reason why I re-buy the same exact pressing. I forgot I had it, or looked for it and couldn’t find it, so bought another. (Usually not expensive stuff).

It doesn't matter whether you listen to 14000 records or 100 if you really enjoy it. If you listen to classical music, it is easy to quickly accumulate many records, if you don't and are quite selective then probably couple of thousands would be more than enough.
I would start with 100 used records and inexpensive but decent turntable and then decide what to do next.

This would be my list of first ten records:
1. Miles Davis - Bitches Brew, original 360 sound US or Canada pressing or original Japanese pressing.
2. Mahavishnu Orchestra - Inner Mounting Flame, original or reissue Japanese. If you can't find them - original British, German or Dutch pressing.
3. John McLaughlin/Paco de Lucia/Al di Meola - Friday Night in San-Francisco, original Japanese.
4. Al di Meola - Cielo e Terra, original Japanese, original non-DMM US, Dutch sound good too. 
5. Dead Can Dance - Into the Labyrinth. I am only familiar with original UK.
6, 7, 8. Pink Floyd - Dark Side, Wish You Were Here, The Wall, Toshiba Pro pressings if you can get them, other Japanese and some European pressings.
9. Deep Purple - Machine Head. Only heard original Japanese non-pro - pretty good.
10. Paco de Lucia - Siroco. Any you can find, Japanese is best. Analogue recording, digital mastering. Sounds half analogue/half digital. Paco's best album in his and my opinions.