How eclectic is your taste in music?

Pretty much (I think)

I regularly play jazz, rock, classical, Bossa Nova, calypso and electronic and fusions of these.

Occasionally pop and blues.

Rarely country swing

Never country or hip hop.

There is a fine line between eclectic and indiscriminate.

I tired of the usual audiophile warhorses a while ago. I have "best" pressings of many- I devoted time, attention and money to acquiring those before prices got completely nutty and clean playing copies were harder to find.

Thanks to a tip from someone who is very into "prog" rock, I got turned onto spiritual jazz and bought as much of it as I could find based on research- some of it is obscure-private label, some on Strata-East and a few other collectives from the period, fetches big money. Only a few have been reissued: Bobby Hamilton’s Dream Queen is definitely worth buying. Cut by BG from the tape, allegedly. The OG is crazy money.

I also listen to early heavy rock that is now labelled as "proto-metal." Some of it is obscure. I listen to a lot of different stuff. I’d say my weakest area is opera, since it is staged and I don’t attend the live performances. I have thousands of good quality classical records that I only occasionally pull out: I dumped over 12k records before I moved in 2017 and since then, have been acquiring things I want. Most of it is older. Some reissues. I’m not big on "audiophile" for the sake of it, especially when I’ve had multiple copies of the same record. I’ve done shoot outs. Sometimes the older copy is better, sometimes, the standard reissue kills. Part of this depends on how much the record has been reissued--many times, the copy I’m buying was a one and done- may 1,000? I dunno.

I’m always open to hearing something new. Part of it is a question of time- and access is key.