I'll Show You Mine If You Show Me Yours

[Doug Hess Jr.]

This is not a contest for bragging rights...it's just to see what kind of music lovers (collectors, pack rats, etc.) we are... just how many CD's and Albums do you have? (NEVER ENOUGH!!)

45s-100
Albums--75
CD's--800 (started collecting in Dec. 1984)
Of those cds, 75 gold (dcc, mfsl, MCA, SONY, etc.) and/or Steve Hoffman mastered aluminum.

[ November 20, 2001: Message edited by: Dough ]

[Todd Fredericks]

Dough,

I gave up counting a few years ago but I'll guess...

45s (100-150)
Albums (800-900, 20% "audiophile")
CD's (2000-2500, 100 or so "gold")
DVD's (400 or so)

Todd

[Joel Cairo]

Like Milton Berle and Forrest Tucker, I believe in only showing enough to win. :D

-Kevin

[ November 20, 2001: Message edited by: Joel Cairo ]

[Angel]

Ha!

Kevin, don't forget Gary Cooper. He was supposed to be, uh, in the Milton/Forrest zone as well.

;)

[Unknown]

Number of CDs -- lost count at around 2500.
All but 2 MFSL Gold CDs
All but 1 (I think) DCC Gold CDs.
All Atlantic Gold CDs.
All but one Sony Mastersound CDs.
All but one RCA Gold CDs.
All MCA Masterdisk Gold CDs.

Now I know where all my money's gone.

[Doug Hess Jr.]

Wow!! David...that must be awesome. What could you possibly be missing?

[Unknown]

I'm a little behind everyone

45's (20 not really something i collect)
LP's (150 - 10% audiophile)
CD's ( 400 - only arround 20 gold CD's)

an improvement in the quality of my hi-fi lead to me searching out more audiophile recordings so i'm behind most of you on this site.

speaking of treasured posessions I managed to scratch DCC Doors "strange days", which i just got about a week ago, last night. this is the first time in 20 yrs of listening that i have done such a thing you should have heard the swear words, and all because i wanted to wipe of a spot of dirt with the carbon brush - pushed a little hard right across one track now it has an anoying tick #$%^&*@! why couldn't i learn that lesson on a less important LP

[PsychFan]

This is all approximation, but:

45s: 300-400
LPs: 200-300 (growing weekly)
CDs: 1800

I've almost completely stopped buying CDs, but just the other day I landed a DCC Sonny Rollins "Saxophone Colossus" gold CD ... awesome! I only had a German OJC LP before, which was pretty good, but wow ... this is a whole other league. Kudos once again, Steve.

[Gary]

Well this is an approximation.....

LPs: 800
CDs: 600
45s: 10 (but all from the '60's!)
78s: 50 (but all borrowed from a friends Dad. '30's and '40's stuff)

The CDs are growing the most - as I discover / find / search out more DCC & MFSL releases.

Did you know that DCC vinyl is very rare around these parts? I've been asking around various record dealers and they have never even SEEN a DCC vinyl release!

Looks like I'll have to find a good importer. Towers used to be OK - they used to order stuff from Japan for me. But now all we have is HMV and Virgin who will be opening up shop sometime this month.

*sigh*

[Jeffrey]

Hey David,

Of the 6 Gold cataloges that you basically own all of, how would you rank them in order of sonic quality?

Thanks,
Jeff

[Unknown]

<<Wow!! David...that must be awesome. What could you possibly be missing?>>

I'm missing the Dave Grisman Hot Dawg MFSL Gold CD and one of the two variations of the Jazz Sampler CD. Although than that, I have all of the regular Gold CD's. I have a few of the promos, but I really don't have much interest in those.

I think I'm missing one of the later DCC titles, perhaps a Metallica CD. Either Master the Puppets or Ride the Lightning. Can't remember which.

I'm missing the Jose Feliciano RCA Gold CD. And either the Luther Vandross or George Benson Mastersound CDs (can't remember which).

I'm not really dying to hear any of these albums, although for the sake of completeness, it would be nice to have them. I'm just not willing to break the bank for them, at least not right now.

[Unknown]

Originally posted by David Olstein:
I think I'm missing one of the later DCC titles, perhaps a Metallica CD. Either Master the Puppets or Ride the Lightning. Can't remember which.

Obviously a big Metallica fan.

What's the point of having *every* title if you don't even like the artist(s)?

[Doug Hess Jr.]

David,
Did you have the foresight to collect them when they were new or did you discover after the MCA and others started getting scarce so you had to pay premium prices?
Doug

[Unknown]

Most of them I got new. Except for a handful of rare MoFi, DCC and Mastersound CD's, it didn't pay any more than standard retail price.

I did panic a little when MoFi announced it was going out of business. I ended up buying a lot of the later titles from Music Direct for full price. If I had been a little more patient, I could have saved myself as much as $10 per disc. Ouch.

[Jeff H.]

This is my current inventory of various sound recordings to date.

45's-1545
LP's-730
12" singles-1843
CD's-1124

[BradOlson]

My music collection is posted at http://www.paulbunyan.net/users/cbsolson/BOlson1/

I do have many titles by artists I am not a fan of in my collection because I got them for cheap.

[Ronald]

The Grisman "Hot Dawg" is rare and was not a great seller as far as I know. Unlike its brethren, UDCD 506 has a white spine instead of black, except for "A very Special Christmas" (red spine). I got mine at Peaches Records only because they were clearing it out in 1992 at $21.99. At that time, I had a whopping eight gold disks and bought them whenever I thought I could afford them, instead of, oh say, electricity.

"Hot Dawg" was packaged in the black framed box. I pitched the plastic frame when I opened the disk. How was I suppposed to know it was worth a lot of dinero nine years later?


It turned out to be a fantastic disk.

I don't have the UDCD's of the Carpenter's "Song for You", "Quadrophenia", "The Wall" and "A very Special Christmas". I shoulda got'em when I had the chance.....

BTW whatever happened to Peaches?

[Ronald]

Also, regarding Milton Berle and Forrest Tucker, it is alleged Michael Jordan is on that list.

Why does He have to have everything (money, skills, endorsements, etc.)?

[Larry Naramore]

Originally posted by Jeff H.:

12" singles-1843

Jeff. By chance do you have Gloria Gaynor's English/Spanish version of I Will Survive?

[Mart]

About :
1000 regular CDs
50 DTS CDs
50 gold CDs
300 LDs (about 50 music)

[ November 27, 2001: Message edited by: Mart ]

[Dave]

No vinyl (and now crying because I sold
1800 of them)
40 DCC gold
4 DCC al.
86 MFSL gold
3 MFSL al.
19 Mastersound gold
8 MCA gold
4 Zounds gold
2 Atlantic gold
2 Sony gold (Best of the best series,
sucks badly)
14 verious different gold cd producers
344 regular release al. cds

......and still growing.
I only have been seriously collecting DCC and MFSL for about 2 years after putting together a decent system.(as his wife looks up the audiophile withdrawl/treatment center in the yellow pages) ;)

[Pat]

Dave,

How did you sell 1800 vinyl records? I have about 1500 lps that I would like to (maybe?)sell. What is the best way to sell this stuff anyway...piece by piece or by the bunch?

"No really dear, I'm gonna sell them, ummm soon...er... honest, I am!" :rolleyes:

[Dave]

Pat,
Up here we have weekly rag called the buy&sell. I just ran an ad and between about ten people they were gone in about 1 month. Some people took 20, some people took 50 and one guy took over 800 at once.

Suggestion: Offer them for sale here on the forum or other audiophile forums where the vinylphiles hang out or there is always ebay to get the most $ for what you have.

Final suggestion Pat: DON'T DO IT!!!!! http://ubb.fanasylum.com/smiles/spinface.gif

[Gary]

Don't do it Pat. You'll be sorry!

It's sometimes hard to find decent sounding CDs these days. They are trying to kill everything with no noise, EQ punch and treb. "bombs" and compression for the masses. Steve and DCC can't do everything, you know! :D

[Pat]

Dave & Gary,

Thanks for the suggestions and warnings (not to sell). I really should sell them though...at least a good majority of them as they don't get much attention anymore. I know I won't sell the original Beatles, Stones, Beach Boys, Who lps. Sentimental attachment I guess. There is a lot of vinyl that has been "bettered" over the years, mostly by DCC (others too).

It's a slow and painful process to even look at lps with the thought of selling them. I sympathize with the "withdrawal" statement!
;)