Yearly Purge

Any particular reason for doing this? Space constraints? Have you got plenty of music in other forms (vinyl/virtual/tape/wax cylinder) to keep you amused?

Not sure purging to have only 100 CDs would work for me. I've got about 700 within easy reach of my system and still find myself sometimes not able to find quite the disc to match my mood.

I am quite ruthless about getting rid of discs that I've bought speculatively which haven't done anything for me (often charity shop buys), and I donate these back to charity. Probably less than 5 per year though.

Mark

That seems like very few CDs.

I think the purge is a great idea. I don't do it, though. I'm a bit of a collector.

I would think that a purge to keep it at around 500-1000 CDs would work well for me. But it won't happen. I'll never get rid of any.

I got rid of about 50% of my CD (approx. 400 ) 10 years ago.

My CD buying was greatly reduced since I got into vinyl but now it's slowly building up due to classical music listening. ( a lot of it are still produced in CDs )

It's nice to get rid of "clutter" and keep things neat, esp with kids about the house, but 30 CDs for the cost of a stop at Starbucks hardly seems worth it - if just for the gas and effort involved. Other options are donations to libraries, schools, charity orgs. Many will come by your house and collect them with other donations from your front porch.

What about friends and visitors to your house? You can offer a CD or two to anyone that enjoys listening to your Naim system. They don't have to known it's undesirable music

I've given a few classical CDs that I wasn't too thrilled to a friend.

With my on going Beethoven Piano Concerto No.1 research, I have now dozens of CDs out of which most of them I will probably not keep around.

My friend will appreciate this 5CD set far more than I have.

Or I have given some duplicate LPs. Just the other day, Friend's kid asked me if I had a Horowitz's Rachmaninov's Piano Concerto No.2. Unfortunately I didn't but I put on Richter/Wisloki set instead. He loved Richter so I gave him one of my dupes. Recycling is a beautiful thing.

Do it every 6 months as I try to keep a collection of no more than about 5000 cd's not incl. what I have on HDD but need to have a major purge shortly. Lose about 2000 to 3000 discs.

I always thought that the forum needs a marketplace where we can sell using PayPal cd's and other bits of NAIM equipment and moderated by some of the senior members.

It works on other forums so don't know why it wouldn't work on here.

In between purging CDs and fiddling with his equipment, I doubt if MM has any time to listen to actual music...

MM,

I can't believe you spend so much on HiFi for so few CD's. You also seem to purge your Naim equipment more over the year than the CD's. 

I do try and filter out dupes and errors in buying judgement as I go along. These tend to be given to friends who come to listen to my system. I know they're going to people who'll enjoy them. My musical taste is very wide and there is no way I could cope with only 100 titles. 

I'm relatively new round here, so I might be missing something, but I'd like to +1 ewemon's suggestion. It would be nice to pass on unwanted things to fellow forumites, and to be able to get kit/music which we could be sure had been looked after to the sort of standards one could reasonably expect from this sort of company. Amazon/eBay are fine - I've done very well out of both in the hi-fi stakes over the last few years - but it's rather impersonal. If we really trusted each other, we could also loan each other (say) out of print discs to have a listen to and then return.

Any reason why not, Richard?

Mark

This is an old chestnut Ebor. If you read the Forum rules you'll understand Naim's position.

https://forums.naimaudio.com/to...read-andamp-follow-1

Guys, don't forget the legal compliance issue

If you get rid of the CD's you also need to delete Any ripped or stored copies, as you are no longer have a legal right to it.

Put them in big boxes and store in garage / loft space

While my collection also has grown and is not realy manageable anymore, I would never think of purging anything, but that's just me.

Personally I can see NAIM's point about not selling equipment on here but however I still think we could do a marketplace for cd's moderated by some of the senior members. 

Every so often I get these urges to whittle the collection but I know I'm just kidding myself.  I have never sold anything and so I have these days a rather large burden to manage.  I do enjoy having a record / CD collection.  Yes, I have a few discs that I thought I didn't connect with upon first listen but I have learnt that returning to them 1 year or 10 or 20 years down the road that my views often change.

I even have a growing list of discs that I bought a second time because it slipped my mind that I had it already.  These are the discs mostly with more than one composer on them.  I find these dreadful to keep cataloged / filed correctly.  These ones I may give away someday if I ever come across individuals who would appreciate them.

In keeping everything I have those special memories of different points in my life.  I am very nostalgic as you can probably tell.  Maybe I'm even a prime candidate for the show "Buried Alive?"

Purging 10% wouldn't change anything for me so I keep everything.  I view my collection as an investment although it is worth nothing to almost anyone else except me.  The good memories I have though exceed any monetary value or the ongoing costs.

I like your comments, Florestan. The records and CDs can create a very embedded connection to the music. Interesting what you remember when you have to go to a place and interact with people and exchange cash/card to purchase a physical medium. Then go home and with anticipation unwrap it, smell it, and play it for the first time while holding and reading the credits. Then remove it, store in your home until the next time you want to hear it.

I'm probably a lot like you. I don't buy music frivolously and I hold onto to what I have because there has been effort beyond a mouse click that has gone into the purchase. 

Generally if I buy something that turns out to be a dog I sell it fairly quickly. Beyond that I don't get rid of any. I have the storage and I can think of a number of occasions that i've found something at random (often on the iPod) and been pleasantly surprised enough to get it back up on the main HiFi and enjoy it again

Bruce

30

LeeTom: Why is 30 significant?

And what if your collection includes a large number of singles (vinyl, Cd or digital)?

Every so often I delve back into my music collection and always come up with a gem that has inexplicably slipped from my consciousness or an album that I didn't fully appreciate at the time.

It would have to be a real dog of an album for me to bin it. The only stuff I have ever sold on/donated to charity shops is second hand vinyl that doesn't meet the grade soundwise (too many pops or clicks).

Can't imagine only having 100 CD's. I must have nearly that many on the iPod in the car.

Regards,

Steve.

"i-pod in the car then are ya? Just hope you don't run over any bloody cyclists while you're fiddlin' with it" (said in my best Eric Idle voice)

My answer is 4.

Then I guess you should stop listening to music and upgrade kit. Probably very much so, with a score of only 4. Run!

Got into ripping cds to hard drive because I ran out of storage space, that they sound better now is a bonus. For me the enjoyment of music (and being so bad at playing piano and guitar) got me into Naim (and Linn) and the system led to me appreciating more and more music. Ripping means I can buy loads more cds! Vinyl is a bigger problem in both senses but that doesn't stop me buying more!

There are albums that I haven't played for decades yet, often as not, when I return to an old favourite I enjoy it as much as ever.