What's your "Pile"?

[DuncanS]

Yeah! @DuncanS pile has saved the rest of us. Contrast my friends, contrast.

Yes, you can say to your respective other halves, "look compared to this madman I'm normal!"

 

[Blackwood]

Yes, you can say to your respective other halves, "look compared to this madman I'm normal!"

My wife has accepted I can be a bit excessive/obsessive with music and is in the, “Great... tell me how much it cost so I know how much I get to spend” phase of our marriage.

And that always leads me to this sign which I’m sure many of you have seen in some form:

 

[DuncanS]

My wife has accepted I can be a bit excessive/obsessive with music and is in the, “Great... tell me how much it cost so I know how much I get to spend” phase of our marriage.

And that always leads me to this sign which I’m sure many of you have seen in some form:

Not far away from .........

 

[mrcond]

View attachment 93499

The To Listen To Mountain has reached 1.74m/5' 8.5" so a bit taller than me! In my defence in 2019 when my mother was very ill for 9 months I was up there helping to look after her and fanatically buying yet not have time to listen - though against me that is probably only 30%-ish of the mountain!

I seem to have an addiction to music, mainly surround but also CDs/DVDs, oh happy days!

My late mother did say to me, you're a collector just like your father - who was also always buying music but he did listen a lot after he retired!

OK but if you really want to impress us, listen to (for example) Stage Fright without disturbing the rest of the pile.

 

[DuncanS]

OK but if you really want to impress us, listen to (for example) Stage Fright without disturbing the rest of the pile.

musical Jenga!

 

[ar surround]

Yes, you can say to your respective other halves, "look compared to this madman I'm normal!"

I showed her your pile. She said, “Your still crazy. He’s just crazier.”

 

[barfle]

On further inspection, it turns out that my “pile” includes about ten hours of downloaded music, too. I download to a folder, then figure out where to file it permanently, and, alas, there’s a bunch in there. Yeah, our first-world problems are going to kill us all!

 

[JohnN]

Now filed.

 

[JohnN]

Tull pile when waiting for 5.1.

Do I need this pile? Blue case is Aqualung.

 

[Paul Hammond]

Now filed.

I can't guess who you like.

 

[JohnN]

I can't guess who you like.

I'm undun.

To play again:

Repeating repeat.

 

[mandrix]

Wow. If all that is on you guys "yet to be listened to " list I'd say you're running years decades behind! lol.
Now where is that Steve Miller Band DTS-CD... I know I bought it a few decades ago!

 

[JohnN]

Wow. If all that is on you guys "yet to be listened to " list I'd say you're running years decades behind! lol.
Now where is that Steve Miller Band DTS-CD... I know I bought it a few decades ago!

Thread title = drunk on the word pile.
Help me open some - the discs might be missing !!!

 

[mandrix]

All I can say is I have, or had, probably at minimum 2000 surround discs, including Atmos and Auro. (Well probably a few hundred or so stereo SACD's in the mix)
BD/DVDA/SACD/DTS-CD/DVDV

My wife love's my music buying and trading. And disc rack building/buying. lol

 

[Mr. Afternoon]

I'm going to be honest, my pile is zero. I like to listen to music before I buy it to make sure I actually want it, and the listen again once it arrives at my doorstep.

 

[mandrix]

I'm going to be honest, my pile is zero. I like to listen to music before I buy it to make sure I actually want it, and the listen again once it arrives at my doorstep.

Well I'll tell you. I'm a little more discerning these days than I once was. I bought a lot of titles I listened to maybe once, then put in the racks.

 

[barfle]

I'm going to be honest, my pile is zero. I like to listen to music before I buy it to make sure I actually want it, and the listen again once it arrives at my doorstep.

Alas, I tend to go on buying binges. I’ll save up links, or go into a store to browse, and end up a Benjamin or two down when I leave. Which means I have somewhere between two and twenty recordings that can’t all be listened to in a day.

 

[Quad Linda]

I have a built in advantage: no wife. And a Husband who is sympathetic, and a collector of movies. Music to a lesser degree.

Collection takes up 2 full rooms and part of three others. A TREASURE HUNT!!
Where should I begin?

DVD-V and BluRay videos/concerts: lots still sealed

Most ridiculous example of sealed product in my collection: Movie Box - Genesis 1981 - 2007 5 DVD-V 5.1 Bought first week of release. I bought the other Genesis/CD/SACD/DVD-V boxes and listened to/watched each disc at least a couple times. I've revisited the other boxes in the last couple weeks. I believe this is the only box set by anyone still sealed. This one is long overdue.

Sealed product that won't be opened by me: several duplicates of CD & SACD.

I haven't listed VHS, Beta, LD or DVD-V and BluRay movies. There at least a couple that I've never viewed on each format. Mostly bequeathed not viewed.

DVD-V equivalents of BD in some super deluxe boxes. BD's in those were played.

CD's: a few dozen. although I estimate 20,000 RBCD's, I have listened to the majority of them at least once. A few thousand likely need a second spin. breaks my heart.

2 ch & mono LP's: perhaps 100, mostly LP's I was bequeathed

BDA, DVD-A, DTS CD, Dolby Surround CD, DVD-V 5.1 albums and SACD multi, 2ch & mono: NONE, though I've not played most of the 2ch mixes on 5.1, alternate mixes of album, or CD layers of hybrids.

Quad LP's: none

Q8's: perhaps 100 that I was bequeathed, many doubles I already own.

2ch prerecorded reels: perhaps a dozen

78's & 45's: none

Elcaset, Tefifon, Playtape and Edison cylinders: none I know of lol!!

MD: Boz Scaggs Hits! I play Japan version or US version on CD often

Assorted pre-recorded cassettes & 2ch 8 tracks: a few dozen I was bequeathed

BTW; bequeathed infers that I was given these by friends, often posthumously. I have never asked anyone to do that. Even a line in their wills! Everyone who knows me understands IT's MY JONES!

 

[Bill B]

WOW 20,000 CDs!!!!!
Thank you. Now my 4000 CD collection doesn’t seem excessive.

 

[Quad Linda]

I was an early adopter of CD. Also had lots of friends and clients in the record business. Got a few hundred promo LP'S in the five years I was with CBS.

Had several places where I could return any pressing still in print. 2 LP's for 1 CD. Got back every $$ toward CD'S. How many had I played more than a couple times each? Not many. Like new. Had another 3 -4 thousand LP'S that I turned into CD. Not anymore. Presto change-o.