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I recently did a bit of shelf organizing and snapped a few photos. This shows most but not all of my collection. There's another 5,000 or so LP's not shown. Best guess for numbers: 17-18K LP's, 12K 78's, 6K 45's, 250 R2R Tapes and 2K CD's.
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Oh Wow !!!
Nice my friend...
Frank
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Kind of Blue
Yes, every record in my collection new and used has been cleaned. LP's on a homemade RCM. 45's and 78's are washed in a sink with lukewarm soapy water.
is the Lincoln done?
...regards...tr
Finished with full mechanical restoration of the Lincoln. Complete interior restoration was done earlier this year. The exterior of the car with its Warwick Gray finish from 1959, remains original.
nice.
...regards...tr
museum! or super-home!!!!
wish you could have been a woman and my girlfriend. no fights!!!! you would not have objected to my adding to your collection.
meanwhile, I got rid of my ex (better than getting rid of lps)
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I'll post some of my pics in a few days - working on organizing!
But a question - I alphabetize etc but somehow some really good stuff ends up on the bottom shelf and in corners.
How do you pull out the good stuff that's hard to see?
In my recent reorganizing Dvorak is on the bottom and I love Dvorak. I forget to listen.
BTW - after about two years, I finally found my Starker Bach sonatas and partitas.
Yeah111
Everything in my collection if organized alphabetically. With floor to ceiling shelving, it's inevitable that some records are more difficult to access. Good lighting helps and really my only complaint is the bottom shelf, close to the floor.
Lovely collection. Would make anyone proud.
Big J
"... only a very few individuals understand as yet that personal salvation is a contradiction in terms."
Awesome. Do you need a best friend?
:-)
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"One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane."
I am ashamed to tell or show you my collection now!
Just curious, what system you listen to with this vast collection? Show us some photos.
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I. Dandaroy
-Technics SP-15 with 10 1/4" Jelco tonearm
-Technics SL-1200MK5 with KAB mods: Cardas tonearm rewire, 78 RPM, tonearm dampening trough, and PS-1200 regulated power supply.
-KAB Souvenir EQS MK12 variable EQ phono premamp
-A dozen different MM, MI, and MC cartridges.
-Pioneer VSX-6045 Receiver
-Various Reel To Reel, Cassette and CD players.
-Klipsch bookshelf speakers
-Magnepan MG IIB speakers
-12" powered subwoofer
I also have these two pieces at a local shop for servicing/rebuilding:
-Marantz 4100 Quad amp
-Phase Linear 400 amp
Does make me wonder though how much of that "collection" (there is no other apt descriptor imo). gets played ??
Only asking as I've a mere ~200 lps and frankly 2/3rds haven't been played in Years.
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I play on average six LP's every day. Or maybe a few dozen 45's or 78's. I would very quickly get 'burned out' on a small collection of 500 or fewer records. I haven't listened to every record in my collection, but have given most a spin.
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independently wealthy.
I love how neat and tidy everything is.
The aesthetics and labeling of his LP and CD storage cabinets
are superb..
but more importantly.. my wife absolutely adores his dogs..
cheers..
david
Fabulous pairing!
Yes, I have a weird streak in me...
Have not seen you on FB in a while and good to see you're well. Keep them coming, as always. Where are the studio pics? I know you had done a lot of vinyl rips/needle drops and would love to see that setup.
I went to see an elderly lady the other day who had two tickets for a local theater event that was sold out. She had already reserved two tickets but she had other obligations. I bought the two tickets from her, everybody happy.
She lived in a new apartment building in my home town. Most of the inhabitants are elderly people who don't want the hassle of a big house and a garden anymore. It was neat but not big. Not much space.
So by the time you and I get really old and we have to move to the old folk's home, we will have to make painful choices. We'll have to cull 90% of our record collection. Yikes.
I'm currently ripping my CD collection. An all winter project. After completion i have my 4K CD collection in WAV files on a tiny USB hard disc. I have my CD's in numbered CD wallets. I have a database on my tablet that tells me in which wallet the CD is. So i can take my CD's with me to the old folks' home. Not my records...
"The torture never stops"Greetings Freek.
...for the therapy sessions for all the inmates who now feel inadequate? :)Very nice indeed, and very well organized, which is an accomplishment in itself.
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You missed your calling. Pirate radio DJ!
8^)
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"Life without music is a mistake" (Nietzsche)
Your a hoarder, but your a very organized hoarder.
simply awesome!
So, what is your single most favorite record?
With music spanning the past 115 years and so many different genres, that's an impossible question. Even a list of ten 'desert island discs' would be a tough call.
Oh come on, man! Humor us. Take a stab at it, be courageous. ;-)
I don't have near the collection you do but still have my favorites and "go to" records. I'll accept a top 10 list, to partially let you off the hook.
Of my records, I tend to focus not only on really liking the music but also the performance and the recording/mastering/pressing quality. So it's a combination of subjective preference and technical achievement.
The 438th on the fourth shelf in the third picture.
From the left.
That's one MIGHTY fine collection of music you have.
"Once this was all Black Plasma and Imagination" -Michael McClure
> Even a list of ten 'desert island discs' would be a tough call.
How about a ten foot desert island discs list?
:~)
Thanks for sharing. Love photos of peoples audio gear/music collections.
Seriously.
The problem is not that there is evil in the world, the problem is that there is good. Because, otherwise, who would care?
Yes indeed. Of course record stores need to be constantly turning inventory. So, you wouldn't expect to find 30 Neil Young records, 50+ Zappa records, or the entire LP discography of Gentle Giant (some in both UK and US pressings) in a typical record store, but they're in my collection.
Actually, I'm kidding, of course, but considering this collection I would expect more(unless, of course, you're just an average fan). I think I have about that in my collection, and I'm probably looking at about 3-5K records, so quite a bit less.
But I don't have any GG records, so you have me there.
Beautful shots, btw.
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"Happy The Man who can tread thy paths and climb thy ways"
Even got a couple Happy The Man LP's:
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"Happy The Man who can tread thy paths and climb thy ways"
Impressive. thanks for sharing
They usually hang out for a few hours in the evening.
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Nice dogs, and collection too for that matter. You are WAAAAY ahead of me on the collection. I just have a "mere" 200-300 LPs and I've been at this since the 70's myself...I have a really good friend that has one of these Australian Shepherds and he's so taken with me and we've bonded quite well. he's the same colors as yours, the tri-color and is named Hudson.
The feeling, by the way, is mutual between us two. :-)
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An awfully cute lot.
What are their names?
"Writing about music is like dancing about architecture."
― Thelonious Monk
Cpwill
Miniature Australian Shepherds left to right: Amiga (Mama), Chico (Daddy), and Trixie (Daughter). Chico came from a litter of Minis, but he is actually standard size at 19 1/2" and 50 lbs. Trixie was a tiny runt that had to be hand-fed formula and given special care. She is very close to me, my special girl.
Nice! Very impressive they are in order too. I only have about 1000 Jazz LPs and 500 rock LPs and I have not even tried to really organize them in any systemic way (each shelf section goes from records I dont like to records I like from left to right). So I tend to stay on the right side of each section. I really should alphabetize them.
Organization and alphabetizing in order is essential. I'd never find anything otherwise.
Can't imagine how you decide what records to play each day? I have trouble just picking out a pair of pants to wear each morning. And my wardrobe is conspicuously smaller!
You seem VERY systematic. Do you have any Johnny Pineapple records?
nt
Johnny Pineapple, Johnny Ukulele, about 100 other Hawaiian LP's and about 150 Hawaiian 78's
I knew it. You ARE a collector. Thanks for sharing.
nt
Probably 3-4 hours. Figure a half dozen LP's or dozens of 45's/78's every day on average. More in the cold winter months, less in summer.
nt
What, no 8 track?
A few. Also have about 500 Cassette tapes, many of them bootleg Jazz and Bob Dylan recordings.
...taking up record collecting on a serious basis ? :-)
Magnificent.
Yep... gave it some thought about fifty years ago. :)
Super nice!
According to my calculation, you have:
874,000 minutes of music
14,567 hours
607 days
1.7 years
If you listened for 8 hours per day, every day, it would take you
1,821 days to get thru it all - or about 5 years.
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No classical?
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Curious... in your estimation, what percent of the 78s are rare/collectible (i.e. blues/jazz "race" records), as opposed to ordinary pop (i.e Bing Crosby)?
> If you listened for 8 hours per day, every day, it would take you 1,821 days to get thru it all - or about 5 years.
I think you forgot to take into consideration the time it takes to remove a record from the turntable, turn it over, brush the dust off both the record and the stylus and finally replace the record in its sleeve and album cover and get out another record to play. I think we're talking about another year to include those activities. ;-)
I have about 3,500 Classical/Opera LPs. 300-400 Avant Garde/Modern Composers. About 1,200 Various Artist Comps. 500+ Childrens LP/45/78, and lots of Comedy, World, Christian, etc.... None shown in the photos posted.
Nice collection.
Yes. When I was a baby and toddler, my parents were constantly playing LP's. Mostly Baroque Era Bach & Vivaldi, Show Tunes and Soundtracks. I guess it got burned into my brain. A good thing I suppose.
The power of music is amazing. As an example, I found this beautiful used copy of "Camelot" several years ago. When I brought it home and played it, it instantly brought forth a flood of ancient memories. I could see in my mind's eye my Mother doing housework and humming/singing along to this recording. I could visualize every detail of the house, the hardwood floors, the large windows flanking the front door and the furniture. I would've been three or four years old at the time this record was released.
What kind of custom alignment did you do to get the Concorde to work in that Jelco arm (guessing that's the 10")? - I love my Concorde but am itching to use it in a different arm than on my technics ...
That's a 10 1/4" effective length Jelco mounted on my SP-15. I kind of used a backwards approach in getting proper alignment with the Concorde fixed cartridge/headshell. Since the position of the stylus is fixed relative to the tonearm, the critical factor was getting the right distance (center of spindle to center of tonearm pivot) to ensure proper alignment. So, it was just a matter of careful calculation and drilling the mounting hole for the tonearm in precisely the right location.
They even wrote a song about this :-)
Edits: 10/11/18
Nicely done. I like the tall cabinets with the rolling ladder. I too like (need) to be organized.
When my niece's daughter was younger, she loved to hang out and listen to music. She especially enjoyed being the "record fetcher" and scrambling up the ladder. A good study in alphabet and spelling skills as well. For example, if I said: "Fetch me Pat Benatar's Crimes Of Passion", she'd have to figure out that it was located a good ways into the B section and between Toby Ben and Brook Benton.
Wish I had thought of that with my sons.
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