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I may have some 3000 albums. Let's say 50 minutes per album, that's 2500 hours, or 104 days if I listen 24h/day. That's not even anywhere near half a year! Gimme the next 3000!  (Also I'm with Logan, I need fresh things to come in regularly.)
By the way I have listened to everything. I'm curious. I can't buy music and not give it at least one spin. Maybe some 200-500 or so haven't survived the first play, but to most stuff I listen more. 
Oh, I should say I'm for some time only expanding the digital collection with the odd LP or CD coming in from time to time, so space is not the thing, I think I'm counting maybe 1000-1500 material discs, and that's not going to grow much anymore. 

PS: "How many is too many?" Well, if you spend more time buying looking for stuff than listening, that's very wrong. If you have difficulties leaving your room or put your books anywhere, that's too much. On pure musical criteria, more is always better and be it only for more variety in the random play. Big smile


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^Yeah, I just said that. I like how his sister mentioned David Axlerod. :)

For the record I'm ok with having stuff that I only play 2 or 3 times and never play again. I may want to get rid of them or not. Lot's of people have open your eyes or union in their collection or calling all stations or from genesis to revelation. How often do you play those?  Tongue


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Also to note, most of these "newer" collectors did not do this 3-4-5 records at a time.......They bought existing collections at estate sales or private sales. At a Steven Wilson concert about 6-7yrs ago I was talking to this older man about his jazz collection which numbers in the 1,000s, he was willing to let me come over and browse and possibly give me some and sell some. We could never make the time work but he got 80% of the collection from a jazz radio station in NYC that shutdown.
These type of sales are very hard to come by now as most are sold thru private sellers and auction houses, plus all the big chain record stores like Amoeba in CA buy a ton of these collections.
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Questlove, the drummer for The Roots, is reknowned for having a large and eclectic record collection.
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Originally posted by Psychedelic Paul Psychedelic Paul wrote:

It's rumoured that Elton John has the largest private record collection in England with well over 25,000 albums, although I very much doubt if he's listened to them all. Smile
I've heard same...He is featured in the Tower Records documentary as having special access to the store on Sunset Blvd, they would open the store for him to look and buy records and yea I think he would buy box loads of LPS.
Probably never heard them all, I agree.......All that touring and drugin and foolin around left no time to sit and spin records. Smile 
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Questlove of the roots has a huge record collection too with over 100,000(over 80,000 at the time of this video). 



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It's rumoured that Elton John has the largest private record collection in England with well over 25,000 albums, although I very much doubt if he's listened to them all. Smile
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It's not about being a completist, although I do own a lot of artist catalogs and with CDs and LPs I have multiple copies. I have gotten rid (sold/traded) a major chunk of my CDs to my local record store, he gives me in store credit which is perfect. I might have 300 CDs today, and I rarely play them since I have them all ripped to digital files that I keep on endless loop on my main system, which I listen to all day long as I work from home.
Its a good question that really has no answer, at least a correct answer. On another music forum the same question has been posed a gazillion times and one recent one took math/age into consideration and about 1,200 was what everybody agreed was a "good" number. I used to be in that range, with LPs....

Henry Rollins is a very well known audiophile and record junkie, his audio system is pretty dang sweet, of course he can afford $30K speakers....Shocked He also has a boat load of records, I have read it ranges in the 5,000 range which is massive, CDs probably dbl that. Whether you think 100 is enough or 10,000, is really insignificant, at the end of the day its about sitting down on a sofa putting on a record and sitting back and enjoying that to the fullest extent, many evenings that's me...don't call me on Friday or Saturday nights!!

What I found was we still only listen to about 30-40% of what we own, because that's what we like to listen to over and over.......some of these guys played an album once and never again.

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Henry's explanation is pretty much where I am at, if anything space is the answer.

  


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Too much is never enough.
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Since I'm picky, I usually listen to everything before I buy (with some exceptions), and I don't feel a need to be a completionist, I can't imagine I'll ever reach a number like 5000. I'm between 1700 and 1800 at the moment. Honestly, I don't know what number I'll max out at. Maybe 3000?
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In my case, I don't think I can ever have too many CD's. Whenever I buy another bundle of CD's, it's always a question of where I'm going to store them, instead of whether I'll have time to listen to them all. Five thousand albums sounds like a good figure to aim for, and I'm currently three-fifths of the way there. Smile
 
By the way, I've never downloaded any music from the Internet because I prefer to buy music the old-fashioned way on CD. Smile


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I can't quantify this. Frankly, with streaming I don't feel the need to own as many as I once did, and I would rather buy mp3s than CDs now, although I still like to collect vinyl (used). My tastes shift, so I want to hear new-to-me things, and I will get very into a style that I wasn't before (often one thing leads to another and other). What I most listen to now I wasn't listening to a couple of years ago (not just the acts, but the styles). I don't want or feel the need to buy physical copies of everything that I like.

I have a big music collection, but as big as it is, it would not suffice as I explore and get into related music and other styles.
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A side conversation in one of the threads recently got me to thinking about this. How many albums or cds is too many? Does anyone really have enough time to listen to their collection if they have a lot of albums? The way I see it is unless you are really old you have the rest of your life to listen to whatever you have and you have less chance of getting burned out on stuff. For me personally though I have decided that a collection of between 4-5,000 is good enough for the big music fan. I'm not there yet but plan on stopping at around 5,000(I might even stop at 3 or 4,000 but haven't decided yet). A good chunk will be prog(and already is)since I like other stuff. 

I do admit there are factors in how much you listen to such as work or social acitivites you might have including marriage and or family life, etc. I don't think it's that difficult to fit music in there though but how much would obviously would depend on those factors.

Any opinions on any of this?



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