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Latest post 05-06-2009 4:05 AM by Santiago. 36 replies.
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  • 05-05-2009 1:51 PM In reply to

    Re: Poll: How big is your CD collection ?

    I have over 300 cd's (last count was some time last year and I only bought 5 cd's since)

    About 50 vinyl records and no downloaded mp3's 

    Though I did rip a couple of our favorite cd's to lossless for my wife's ipod.

     

  • 05-05-2009 2:01 PM In reply to

    • MacBo
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    Re: Poll: How big is your CD collection ?

    500!

  • 05-05-2009 3:40 PM In reply to

    Re: Poll: How big is your CD collection ?

    No idea! iTunes reckons I have 30617 items on it, though I am still recording my LPs slowly!

  • 05-05-2009 4:09 PM In reply to

    Re: Poll: How big is your CD collection ?

    I have about 1200 CDs, and 1 record! (and the record hasn't arrived yet)

    This reminds me of series of letters in the 'Gramophone' magazine many years ago when someone was questioning the wisdom of having large record collections.

    They pointed out that, for someone like me with 1200 CDs, and assuming that I play 5 CDs a day 5 days a week, it would take me a year to listen to my entire collection just once!.  Some people wrote letters (remember them?) saying they had record collections in excess of 5,000 LPs.  Do the math!

    Cleve

  • 05-05-2009 4:18 PM In reply to

    Re: Poll: How big is your CD collection ?

    According to iTunes, mine would take 84 days, 6 hours, 29 minutes and 4 seconds. And that would be continuous listening. The big advantage of having it on HDD is that I can listen to anything almost instantaneously rather than digging through my records or CDs.

  • 05-05-2009 5:22 PM In reply to

    • TWG
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    Re: Poll: How big is your CD collection ?

    Ca. 250 CDs in my shelfs.

  • 05-05-2009 6:18 PM In reply to

    Re: Poll: How big is your CD collection ?

    I would guess about 2-300 Cd's another 50 or so LP's about 8000 songs on iTunes and maybe around 5 or 6 cassettes.

    I drift back and forth between iTunes and playing Cd's and records. Lately I have been restoring a bunch of old vinyl. Mostly stuff from the 50's and early 60's.

    I am amazed at how well some of the early sterophonic recordings from the early 50's actually sound. Somehow I expected a lessor sound quality but in fact some of the hi-fi vinyl I have from back in the early 50's is on par with anything being currently recorded.

  • 05-05-2009 7:10 PM In reply to

    Re: Poll: How big is your CD collection ?

    Peter :

    According to iTunes, mine would take 84 days, 6 hours, 29 minutes and 4 seconds. And that would be continuous listening. The big advantage of having it on HDD is that I can listen to anything almost instantaneously rather than digging through my records or CDs.

    Ah, Peter, but you would miss out on the ritual!  My only real regret in my life was getting rid of my record collection in the late 80s.  To redress that, I have just bought my first vinyl record in 20 years.  All I need now is the Beogram -  I have found a very nice,  fairly local BG 1700 I am trying to buy!

    Cleve

  • 05-05-2009 10:32 PM In reply to

    Re: Poll: How big is your CD collection ?

    About 500 or so CDs, about 50 LPs and about 20 songs downloaded...

    Can't quite get used to not having a tangiable album, I like the cover art and booklets that you don't get (properly) on downloaded music.

    My B&O: 2009 Catalogue and Pricelist

  • 05-05-2009 10:37 PM In reply to

    Re: Poll: How big is your CD collection ?

    11,000 tracks on

    860 Discs on

    760 CD Albums on

    250Gb of WMA Lossless

     

  • 05-05-2009 10:41 PM In reply to

    Re: Poll: How big is your CD collection ?

    kokomo:

    I love their song 'The Day Before You Came'. Think it has a quality matched only by 'The Winner Takes it All'.

    The video for ' The Day....' is particularly significant as it portrays a picture of a profound change in their mood and their relationship with each other-

    And by the way, I always fancied Frida!

    Me too for Frida :)

    Thanks for the tip on the "The Day Before ..." video clips:

    I liked this one http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GAPAvev-os because the dolby (?) sound quality allows me to more clearly hear her accent - but http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYqYYnxhtgo is far more emotionally evocative - for me it portrays what this song means for me.

    Songs (especially with decent lyrics) are always evocative - for me "The Day Before ..." and "Children of Coincidence" (http://www.jr.com/product/music/pm/_988114/) and "Breathless" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgiBZ037Nsg) have a special meaning.

    "The Winner Takes It All" is the flip side of that coin .........

    First B&O (1976) was a Beogram 1500 ... latest (2011) change has been to couple the BL11 with the BL6Ks *sounds superb*

  • 05-06-2009 4:05 AM In reply to

    Re: Poll: How big is your CD collection ?

    Around 1.500 CDs for the BS9000 + 3.167 albums (42.256 songs) in HDD for the Beoport.

    Santiago

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