How large is your music collection?

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.

from Timrhu

from Mike Lavigne....

"10,000 Lps, of which 3000 are played regularly"

that statement blows me away. Please define regularly.

i will try to explain the best i can. sorry for the delay, i missed your question in December and just saw it this morning.

in my music barn i do have 10,000 Lps. of which 3000 are actually in my listening room with me which are all played from time to time. i listen to music 7 days a week, with weekends included likely averaging 3-4 hours per day. maybe 50%+ of the time it's Lps.

i have 1000+ 45rpm Lps, all in room, that are my most frequent played Lps. i'm a guy who 75% of the time will listen to one cut or one side of an Lp. if i am really into it i may listen to 15 to 20 or more different Lps in a day. other days 3 to 5.

there are box sets in room where not all Lps have been played.

i would guess that every one of the 3000 Lps in room have been listened to at least once in the last 2 and 1/2 years. most 3 or 4 times and some once a week. is that '3000 are played regularly'? i think so.

sometimes i'll just grab a hndfull of Lps from a spot on my shelf and play those....which gets me into more seldomely played Lps.

obviously, the roster of in-room Lps changes over time as some new ones enter and others leave for my 'B' shelf.