02-Apr-2016, 08:43
I guess mine is average but it's growing as I age...who would have thought.
My original +/- 600CD's all ripped in AIFF.
Every song that's ever been in the Dutch Top 40 from 1965 to 2006 in MP3 format. A gift from a mate of mine in Holland when I visited. Some are ripped / copied from vinyl and sound actually quite ok.
300Gb of MP3s that another mate of mine scored on an oil rig. The 'original' source was a DJ who made a copy from the radio station's hard drives before he left them.
A few hundred CD's ripped from a very good friend of mine who left her collection to another mate of mine in her will. I ripped all of them for him and kept a copy.
I also have all my mate's ripped CD's and he has mine so if his or my house burns down we don't loose our music.
As you can see, I have a hell of a lot of illegally obtained music. That is bad
but there's a plus side. First, most of that illegal music isn't to my taste and I wouldn't have bought it anyway so the artist isn't loosing out. Second, and this is why I don't feel bad at all about it, I have found the odd gem and then went on to buy more music from the same artist. So there the artist wins. That is good 
My original +/- 600CD's all ripped in AIFF.
Every song that's ever been in the Dutch Top 40 from 1965 to 2006 in MP3 format. A gift from a mate of mine in Holland when I visited. Some are ripped / copied from vinyl and sound actually quite ok.
300Gb of MP3s that another mate of mine scored on an oil rig. The 'original' source was a DJ who made a copy from the radio station's hard drives before he left them.
A few hundred CD's ripped from a very good friend of mine who left her collection to another mate of mine in her will. I ripped all of them for him and kept a copy.
I also have all my mate's ripped CD's and he has mine so if his or my house burns down we don't loose our music.
As you can see, I have a hell of a lot of illegally obtained music. That is bad
but there's a plus side. First, most of that illegal music isn't to my taste and I wouldn't have bought it anyway so the artist isn't loosing out. Second, and this is why I don't feel bad at all about it, I have found the odd gem and then went on to buy more music from the same artist. So there the artist wins. That is good
Lifetime Roon, Mac mini, int. SSD, ext. HDD, tv as monitor, key board and track pad on bean bag as remote,Devialet 200, Od'A #097, Blue jeans speaker cable,
Dynaudio C1 MkII.
Jim Smith's GBS.
Northern NSW Australia.
Dynaudio C1 MkII.
Jim Smith's GBS.
Northern NSW Australia.
