My LP's are stored in two-tiered cabinets much like you find records in at any of the record stores only they're furniture grade wood with a nice cherry finish. This way the albums face front and you can flip through them easily. Each one holds 500 LP's. They're in my living room where my stereo system is. The room is mostly used for music listening as we have a large family room downstairs where the home theater is. I keep a printout created on Excel of all my records with the cabinets, they're in genre order and listed alphabetically under each genre, which is how the LP's are stored, so I can also just look at the list to see what I might want to pull out for a listening session. You can see the storage cabinets on my audiogon page under "Ever Evolving" system.
Listening habits and LP storage
Does your LP storage scheme affect your listening habits?
The majority of my albums are in the basement while my system is on the ground floor. I keep about 30-40 albums near the system (so that they don't overtake the room).
I find that when I listen, I'm picking from the nearby albums instead of my entire collection. I also have lots of new albums that need to be cleaned before I'll listen to them and I'm not getting to those very quickly at all (although I keep buying them :-)).
I'm not at all frustrated by this - if I was I'd be motivated to get up off my rear and rotate the selection near my system. Rather, I find myself content as I put something on and get swept up in the music.
How about you?
The majority of my albums are in the basement while my system is on the ground floor. I keep about 30-40 albums near the system (so that they don't overtake the room).
I find that when I listen, I'm picking from the nearby albums instead of my entire collection. I also have lots of new albums that need to be cleaned before I'll listen to them and I'm not getting to those very quickly at all (although I keep buying them :-)).
I'm not at all frustrated by this - if I was I'd be motivated to get up off my rear and rotate the selection near my system. Rather, I find myself content as I put something on and get swept up in the music.
How about you?