How large is your music collection?

I have about 1000 CD's right now, including DVD-A and SACD.

I'm in the process of downloading as FLAC files, and am purchasing hi-rez music online. Eventually I plan on having the whole collection on hard drive, and only have certain CD's, like the upcoming King Crimson 'In the Court of the Crimson King' boxset as physical media.

Real estate for the collection is getting to be a hassle. Especially since my wife is a Marine, and we move a lot...

-P

AlMarg: 600 LP's; 100 CD's; 80 Cassettes

Thought I'd add a bit of additional info to my previous post:

About 90% classical; 10% rock and miscellaneous.

About 1/3 of the collection consists of either releases from audiophile-oriented smaller labels, or audiophile-oriented remasters of older releases from big labels, or releases from smaller labels which are otherwise known for their high quality. That 1/3 gets listened to the most :)

Regards,
-- Al

this was a good opportunity to take an inventory - and the total surprises me . . .

~1000 CD's
~800 LP's

Glad to see I'm not the only one with the sickness. Been awhile since I did a total count but if my numbers are correct I'm pushing 10,000 cds. I still remember my first CD (in '84 I think) "Shot Gun Angel" by Daniel Amos. Currently I have just over 72,000 songs loaded on my music server and lots more to load. It would be great just to peak into all the great collections out there.

3500 CD's, 800 SACD's, 40 DVD-A's, 10,000 Lps, 125 RTR tapes....and a music server.

music server with about 20 Hi-rez files, another 1500+ Cd's (from my CD collection) on the server. i do plan on expanding my hirez file collection.

10,000 Lps; of which about 3000 are played regularly, another 3000 'B' list are cleaned and cataloged, and when i'm in the mood i'll go thru the remaining 4000 and pull a few out to inspect and play from time to time.

i have about 100 50's and 60's RTR tapes in 1/4" 7 1/2 ips format. and i have about 25 15 ips 1/4" master dubs.....which are the stars of my software collection.

i don't own an MP3 or any other low-rez recording (my wife does use an i-pod in the house with some of my CD's in MP3 format.

i do have many hundreds of DVD's and about 150 Blue Ray movies (and approx 50 HD-DVD's). a good amount of those are music videos. those are all in the house in my HT.

overall; i find that since that my music focus and even my format focus seems to change over time; that some music that i did not connect with to begin with i'll come back to later and understand; or i'll get back into some of my music that i had forgotten about. i like to think i've evolved musically over the last 15-20 years of serious music collecting. i cannot imagine getting rid of music; it's too personal. i'm a gear-head for sure, but it's the music that matters.

in the last few years i've not been able to afford to add as much new music to my collection; and i've noticed how that makes it less fun. new music is the lifeblood of this hobby.