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I'll give up sleep but not listening to music....
Setting aside radio and streaming sources, when it comes to your collection—LPs, CDs, computer, tapes—do you have more music than you'll ever be able to listen to?
At well over 4500 titles, counting LPs, CDs, cassettes, DATs, and even 8-tracks, if I listened to one album a night it would take me over twelve years without duplicating an album—and that doesn't count on me buying anything new between now and then!
When people ditched their vinyl for CDs, I collected an enormous amount of free LPs, many of which I still haven't listened to: collectors mania! I also tried to be a classical CD retailer, but much of what I bought ended up in my personal collection—the proverbial alcoholic working in a brewery! At least I have enough music to last my lifetime. I guess downloads could be a cure for collector's mania!
I listen to everything once as background (5000 albums and counting). If it breaks through, I will spin it again, but sitting still with no distraction is for live performances. I attend over 50 acoustic concerts a year in the best halls.
Funny how being an audiophile brings out the "hoarding instinct." I am always trying to remember to listen to albums and CDs that I know I love but have not gotten to in a while just because there is so much in my collection.
With 16000+ CDs (covering music from 1900s to current) and a few thousand LPs, my wife estimated that it would take me more than 20 years of continuous listening to be able to finish the whole collection. With the availability of great remastering software, a few TB hard-drives, great audio equipments, and new found rare LPs, such as Enoch Light and soundtracks, like Fall of The Roman Empire, I managed to transfer and remaster all that music into 32-bit/96kHz files, and play them in my audio system, plus my 9-speaker home theater. Most of the music is also downconverted to CDs, thus my CD collection is still growing. My wish for the future is for music in Blu-ray disc, using lossless DTS HD Master Audio so that we can play it in the home theater. Of course, HD video is also desirable.