Compulsive Disassociative CD Collecting Disease (CDCDCD)

[Que]

I have recently taken to thinning my collection. I've sold about 25 boxes (from 7 to 64 disks), and have many more listed on the Japanese Mercari site. I have the stuff I really want digitally, on hard drives. Some things I have mixed feelings about partng with, so I've listed their price really high. Other things I REALLY want to get rid of, so keep reducing the price...

That is quite an effort. I know from experience that it can be hard to let go! 

What did you use? Ebay?

[DavidW]

Thanks to streaming making my purchase decisions MUCH MORE informed... when I looked at my collection to see if it was time to cull there was not a single thing I wanted to part with.  The one blind buy I had (Koopman Bach organ, which I think you can stream now) I've warmed to.

Looks like I will be buying more shelving.  While I'm buying downloads more frequently now, I still buy and enjoy cds.

[Mookalafalas]

That is quite an effort. I know from experience that it can be hard to let go! 

What did you use? Ebay?

  No, the site is called "Mercari." Japan won't let me use my Paypal account, so I'm blocked from Ebay here, it seems.

   It's strange, but I'm really enjoying selling stuff off.  It feels cathartic...  I have also burned lots of disks, so even if I sell 80% (which I'd like to do), I'll still have a huge collection

[Atriod]

Strong showing in 2024. So much so that I have needed more storage for the overflow, but it was mostly junk on Amazon. Boltz were on my list but I didn't want to pay the Boltz tax as I want to do custom shelving in our next house. Ala Ikea Gnedby except in real wood.

As the CD gods would have it someone was practically giving away these Boltz racks, four of them! https://www.boltz.com/cd-dvd-vhs-multimedia-floor-rack-shelving-mm-756.html

Far more than I needed for the overflow that was piling up between two houses in CD storage boxes, which were starting to take up a lot of floor space.



(each flat steel sheet is a stack of four for a single rack in the link above)

What I had to tear down and pack up 😭

Calling 1 rack from metal end plate to end plate. The far left rack is all jazz except for the very bottom shelf where rock starts. As a 90s yoot that meant it was stuff like NIN, Mr. Bungle, Faith No More, Outkast, yada yada. That continues to about the second or third shelf of rack 2 (much of the rock and hip hop was not on that shelf as we'd share CD-Rs). From there on it's all classical, arranged by composer except for some exceptions- pianist section for my favorite pianists (Block, Babayan, Ugorskaja, Richter, etc). Then multi composer chamber music, orchestral music, choral music, and so on. Japan SACDs/CD (vast majority original recordings, a few reissues of analog era music), SACD (my main interest in them is MCH after fully digesting Toole's books), then the composers. Some of the smaller box sets are pictured on rack 2, all the bigger ones are out of frame. Even ones like R. Serkin Sony, Richter or Gilels Melodiya 100th Anniversary which could fit would have taken up too much space.

Outside that room I had my listening room (even larger than the music room) and crossing the stairs we had a dedicated home theater with a really nice even at the time of sale JVC RS600 projector, though pixel shifting it still looked phenomenal.

I think for my future setup I will either have to combine the stereo and home theater in one, or more than likely not bother with a home theater. I think I will be doing multichannel music only as really good speakers like Kef Blade Meta or Kii 3 BXT can be pretty thin.