How Big Is Yours?

I recently went in search of some storage for my collection of some 900+ CDs. I thought I'd try to get something that would allow me to store up to about 1300-1400 to allow for expansion.

I found that getting hold of storage for a collection of that size - which I don't consider to be huge - is well nigh impossible! At least not without spending a s**t load of money that I'd rather spend on discs!

I believe that there are plenty of people out there who have fairly good sized collections, and who would appreciate good quality moderately priced storage solutions.

I'm curious to see if my perception about people's collection sizes is correct. How many CD's do you currently own?

Norm Cash wrote: I recently went in search of some storage for my collection of some 900+ CDs. I thought I'd try to get something that would allow me to store up to about 1300-1400 to allow for expansion. I found that getting hold of storage for a collection of that size - which I don't consider to be huge - is well nigh impossible! At least not without spending a s**t load of money that I'd rather spend on discs!

I just over 500 CDs and 20 DVDs, and they all fit nicely into one shelf/cupboard by IKEA. I'll try to find some pictures of it, it's really nice and has sufficient room for about 1.000 CDs. It's not expensive, and it should be no problem to simply use two of them standing next to each other...

Dragon Phoenix wrote: Let's see, all reasonable estimates: Classical music 1700 Jazz 200 Pop/rock 1200 New Age/Crossover 200 Mandarin pop 500

OH MY GOD!!!

BTW, What is "mandarin pop"??

MikeEnRegalia wrote: I just over 500 CDs and 20 DVDs, and they all fit nicely into one shelf/cupboard by IKEA. I'll try to find some pictures of it, it's really nice and has sufficient room for about 1.000 CDs. It's not expensive, and it should be no problem to simply use two of them standing next to each other...

I think I know exactly the CD unit you're talking about. I considered buying it last year, but unfortunately, the space that I use for CD storage (a little alcove between our chimney and wall) is less than 2cm too small to fit it in.

I'm really surprised that IKEA don't do more in the way of high volume storage.

I think I have about 490-500 cd's mostly prog, metal and classic rock. In adition to that I have about 300 Lp's, mostly prog. That does not mean I have 800 titles, as I have many of the records I have on LP also on cd.

Uuuhmmmm!! My girfiend once told me it was a very normal size and that it was not the size but how you used it!

Oh! you meant record collection........

Just Cds and vinyls not including cassettes and CDR , around 1000 but at one time in my life , I had around 2000 vinyls (and bought around 5000 - mostly second hand - but sold back a lot of them to finance new acquisitions).

I have made a lot of compilations of artist whose records had only one or two good tracks! Ex: Santana's late 70's albums. Got a CDr with my best of six albums of his.