"Insane" Record Collections

[Ron Resnick]

http://www.slate.com/blogs/behold/2...tors_in_his_book_dust_grooves_adventures.html

 

[jeff1225]

I'm working on it!

 

[DaveyF]

Sheer quantity of Lp’s, no longer impresses me. Last year I visited a local guy who owned slightly over 200,000 records!!
If he owned twenty that I would have been interested in, that would have been a lot......
So, these days, when someone has a collection, I am far more interested in quality than quantity.

 

[rockitman]

Quality trumps quantity...

 

[Mike Lavigne]

Quality trumps quantity...

I gave away 2500+ 'junk' records to Goodwill a few years ago, and sold another 1000+ decent dups cheaply to a couple friends; now my 6500-7500 collection with a little room to grow is right sized for me.......and I have more space for my exercise gear upstairs. I like and know the records I have. I would enjoy owning another couple thousand good classical titles for sure, but not just more for more's sake.

 

[XV-1]

Alessandro Benedetti of Monsummano Terme, Italy, holds the Guinness World Record for largest collection of colored vinyl records,


Personally could not think of anything worse. For show, not for play.

 

[gian60]

Monsummano Terme is a small city with 21.000 resident near Florence
In Monsummano Terme there is since 1960 one of the 3 biggest distributor,Audio Natali,with ARC,Krell;dan D Agostino,Costellation,Magico,Wilson,ML,DCS

 

[SCAudiophile]

http://www.slate.com/blogs/behold/2...tors_in_his_book_dust_grooves_adventures.html

Very cool article,...thanks for posting!

 

[Down Under]

Insane-no.
Obsessive-compulsive with poor impulse control......

 

[jeff1225]

Most of the posts on this thread make me sad. You need to own 3,000 records if you wanted to collect Blue Note, and that's just one label.

Get off of What's Best and back into the record stores gentlemen.

 

[thedudeabides]

Most of the posts on this thread make me sad. You need to own 3,000 records if you wanted to collect Blue Note, and that's just one label.

Get off of What's Best and back into the record stores gentlemen.

Not trying to be argumentative but with all due respect to the "collectors" and those who own thousands of LP's, how many times, in your lifetime, will you listen to each of those records?

Best.

 

[asiufy]

Not trying to be argumentative but with all due respect to the "collectors" and those who own thousands of LP's, how many times, in your lifetime, will you listen to each of those records?

Best.

Hey, where have I heard that question before???
Ah yes, from my wife! Or my entire family!

Now seriously, from the outside, it really is inexplicable why people collect. Even I, from time to time, question some of the stuff I've purchased and kept around...


cheers,
alex

 

[DaveyF]

Hey, where have I heard that question before???
Ah yes, from my wife! Or my entire family!

Now seriously, from the outside, it really is inexplicable why people collect. Even I, from time to time, question some of the stuff I've purchased and kept around...


cheers,
alex

Lol, that’s so true, Alex.

I’m certain that all of us have collections that have some very questionable inhabitants. Just yesterday, I was listening with a fellow a’phile friend and we had his mono copy of the six eye Dave Brubeck Time out on the platter. So, after a little searching, I pulled out one of my copies to see if we could hear a difference, problem is this particular copy was a two eye mono in VG- condition....we both questioned why I owned this particular copy, I had no idea!
Too weird.

 

[jeff1225]

Not trying to be argumentative but with all due respect to the "collectors" and those who own thousands of LP's, how many times, in your lifetime, will you listen to each of those records?

Best.

Thousands.

 

[thedudeabides]

Thousands.

Hi Jeffrey,

So I'm clear, are you saying you have thousands of records and you will listen to each record a thousand times or more in your lifetime

Best

 

[jeff1225]

Hi Jeffrey,

So I'm clear, are you saying you have thousands of records and you will listen to each record a thousand times or more in your lifetime

Best

I'm giving you my stock answer that I give my wife when she asks me how many times I'm going to wear all of the watches I have or use all the cartridges I have or all the cables I have. "Thousands."

 

[thedudeabides]

Regarding your "stock" answer and with all due respect, absent what you tell your wife, I assume it's hyperbole and not factually accurate.

 

[jeff1225]

Regarding your "stock" answer and with all due respect, absent what you tell your wife, I assume it's hyperbole and not factually accurate.

Yeah, well, that's just, like, your opinion, man.

 

[NorthStar]

We collect because it's human nature...I think. We have been collecting dust since the creation of the first man and woman. Then came the long play along the way, so we started collecting those big music engraved plates too.
Now we have 5D...

 

[ddk]

Yeah, well, that's just, like, your opinion, man.

Jeff,

Are you married to dude?

david