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post #61 of 64
8/17/09 at 6:39pm
I personally think it is better to have a large eclectic music collection, as long as you have your core collection of favorites in the mix. It gives you something else to listen to from day to day if you ever burn out on the core stuff.
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post #62 of 64
8/18/09 at 7:33pm
I have about 1300 albums in flac format. I keep them on DVD-RW disks because hard drives can die. When I was younger, the music was hard/expensive to acquire. Now, owing to Internet, the music is almost free to get, but I still cannot change my mentality and keep collecting albums even though I know that life is short and I cannot possible enjoy all my collection.
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post #63 of 64
8/18/09 at 7:55pm
I don't have a good computer audio setup, and frankly it's not high on my list of priorities, so at this point I'm happy with CDs and LPs. I have about 400 CDs, and with a wife and two kids to support on one income, I'm very picky about what I buy. If I want to experiment with music I'm not sure about, I'd rather do so in a live setting because it's more likely that I'll enjoy it that way. When I see a band whose performance I really like, I usually don't buy their CD, because I'll probably never listen to it - I guess I've been through enough musical epiphanies for one lifetime (though I'm sure I'll get surprised again one day), and now I just know what I like.

With LPs, I follow two strategies: firstly, I try to buy my favourite albums new on vinyl rather than CD if I can. Secondly, I buy anything second-hand that catches my interest, as long as it's really cheap. My goal is to be able to DJ house parties with old vinyl, even if I never listen to the LPs at home, and that requires quantity. My collection is still in its infancy though, with ~250 records.
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post #64 of 64
8/19/09 at 3:49pm
For me Im lucky I think since everyone in my family loves music. I have a grandfather with over 3000 CDs and an uncle with that many Vinyl records. So I pick and choose and rip them to flac and also buy my own.

I do spend more time lately looking for the best recording of albums I love or even havent heard in awhile and want to re-listen. Whether its the Japanes release, MFSL, random UK printing, or whatever. I listen to everything and I mean everything except for Country (cept some old stuff like Cash).

I think its good to get random things to keep it exciting but put most of your collection on quality and not quantity. I have so much music now that more than half I havve never heard. So I am trying to downsize a little but have to mow through about 1 and a half Terabytes of FLAC. Its a daunting task but every day I just find something new and cool and listen to whole albums at day and at night in bed.

For like 2 years I just got everything I could that "might" be good and just now am trying to listen to some of it.

I would really like a collection of maybe 250 AMAZING cds than 5000 mediocre ones.
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