What is approx. percentage of your total


record collection do you actually listen to? I am particularly interested in those with collections numbering in the thousands.
hiendmuse
I have about 2,000 cleaned and ready to play and maybe a few hundred to clean. Any collection mostly sits on a shelf. Even if I haven't played a particular one in years, it's nice to know there's a nice copy ready when I want it. I also have a hard time not buying different pressings of the same title if it's one I like. A backup pressing or two of favorites is also nice. More and more I'm trying to thin the collection out to no more than two or three good pressings of any given title and most titles only one.
I own about 6,000 LPs.
2,000 Rock, 2,000 Jazz, 2,000 Classical.
I listen mostly to CDs.
Then Jazz LPs, then some Rock LPs.
My Classical mostly just sit there. My first love was Classical, but i am into Jazz much more now.
Then i will listen to a few Rock LPs.
And plenty of Jazz LPs.
I buy used LPs, way more than i can listen to.
Though I have started to try ti listen to what I buy.. lately.
I have actually listened to about half of my LPs. the rest i have never listened to, ever.
Some few get played more.
No big deal. It is a collection. So when I want something I have it. Period.
The only issue is space. Thus my limiting myself to only owning what fits into the current shelving. And how i have such a nice even number of each Rock Jazz and Classical
I am always buying more LPs.. so I have to toss some out every few months. Upgrading.. And YES i have tossed LPs I never listened to. LOL!!!
Audiofeil, that's humorous. It's like saying "I've got a drawer full of silverware, but I use always use the same fork."
I kind of get into rotations of groups of LP's and those are on a separate shelf. I would say that my "rotations" are usually 50 or so at a time.
Maybe over the course of the year, I actually listen to about 1,000 or so different records.