How To Listen To 9,000 CDs & Other Useless Knowledge

That’s great how you’re able to fit all that music listening into your daily life. I’m always trying to figure out ways to listen to my music each and every day. I also happen to be a big movie buff and an avid reader, so it’s often a balancing act trying to give equal weight to my different passions and interests. There’s only so many hours in a day, right.

It is so important to be more about the music than fall to deep down the audiophile rabbit hole. Brendon. You have the right attitude. If you ever want useful and helpful knowledge for great and affordable audio gear without busting the bank I got your back my friend.

It's nice to see how much music means to you - I 'm always listening to music , I seem to wake up thinking about what I will play that day - and get excited about it - I m sure people might think that very strange! - The Denon system looks great - in fact I need to upgrade so will check out. These videos are really interesting insights .

Question : How do you listen to 9000 CDs???? Answer : One at A Time......

Hello, Brendon! Thanks for sharing these tips! In my personal opinion, I thought really useful! Me, as a Brazilian fan, wish the best for you and your channel!

I have the Bose cans in your video & then tried the Sony XM3 & was blown away by the superior sound & noise cancelling. I still have both but rarely use the Bose set, don't get me wrong they sound fine but the Sony pair are superior on both fronts. I have a seperates system, tower speaker's, a cambridge dac & ifi zen 2 to use bluetooth with my system & it sounds great. I have a slight addiction to headphones with many open, semi open, closed, wireless & in ears. When it comes to music you can never have enough options. Thanks for giving us an insight to your aural world 👍

Cool video. Thanks for sharing. Music is also a lifelong passion for me. Having two older brothers really fed that passion. I would go into their room when they were away to check out their collections. I’d start with the most interesting covers. When I see my brothers today we almost always talk about music after the normal family formalities:).

I Have a 21 year Old Denon CD Player. I have Replaced Speakers, Receiver / Amps, & Cassette Decks but that Denon CD Player still Plays Flawless.

Very interesting. In a way we are the same. Music all the time, its a way of life, totaly right. I also like your storage video, good idea to put them in boxes to win space.

Very nice, thank for the link.

Very interesting video, I've been enjoying some of your videos. Man we similar tastes, I have most of the box sets you showed in that video. My collection is small compared to yours, around 3000 CDs, but even that amount gets hard to store. I do rip my CDs to FLAC files, I have a Sony Hi-Res DAP and a 1 TB SD card so I have a decent amount of music with me at all times. I'm a wired headphone guy, I have a pair of balanced Sennheiser HD 660S phones and a balanced pair of Sennheiser HD 700, which I only use with my Pono music player. I know that player became kind of a joke but it sounds amazing. Sorry for the rambling, very cool collection you have and I dig the setup. Love your channel!

Awesome. I have similar gear. A couple of years I bought a streamer which connects to my hi fi. Streams radio, Apple Music, Qobuz etc. BUT you can bolt in a couple of hard drives. This means I have archived all my cd collection. Don’t try it! You’ll be 103 before you archive all yours. 🤣 But also downloading hi res albums for streamer to play is fun! Although I not sure Poison’s ‘Look what the cat dragged In’ justified a hi res release!

Ah well noted my friend. This is a terrific video and of course really does shed some light on how you put a decent dent in your collection each year. :) I love to critically listen with my specialized audiophile grade headphone rig. That is my favourite way to enjoy music. I have a smile of my face once I fire up my amps, DACS, power supply units, AC regenerator and viola! I’m in Heaven. :) For travel I use an ASTELL&KERN AK JR DAP with Campfire Audio Atlas IEMS. It is excellent. Could ask for more. :)

Rybenjor your channel. After watching this and your storage video. I’d love to hear your thoughts on physical media versus streaming. Packaging, sound quality, all that. Cheers from Canada!

You are the first channel I found that isn't just an absurd audiophile telling me its easy I just have to spend 5000 dollars on my system. I've been looking at a set up similar to yours, in a small apartment as well. I'm starting with a portable though. I'd like some good phones for it though. But by good I still don't mean "taking out a loan".

Love it. I also have the Denon CD shelf system. It’s great. Question: beyond playing physical CD’s and streaming from Apple, wondering if you have any thoughts/advice on storing/daily playing of digital music (mp3, etc) that I’ve ripped from CD’s or downloaded? I can only fit so much on my phone for Bluetooth playing when out walking etc. I have most of my MP3’s sitting on an external hard drive at home but obviously you can’t carry around a hard drive and plug headphones into it haha so I’m constantly adding/removing albums from my phone from hard drive based on what I might want to play while I’m out in the world. Wondering how/if you deal with something like that?

Very interesting and impressive! My collection is much smaller, at about 560 CDs, 140 LPs, 5 or 6 CD box sets, and a few 45s and 7 or 8 cassettes. All of it has been listened to and will be again at some point in time. A small number of them are terrible and I have them as curiosities, but even those will be listened to eventually just for laughs, at least some of it if not the entire disc. I can't even imagine trying to rotate through a collection of 9000! If someone gave me the storage space and said "Select 8300 more and they are yours for free" I would have a hard time selecting that many! I would need a reference book of albums to do it, without duplicating anything. Right now I have a few duplicates but not many, like certain titles I have in both mono and stereo.

Out cats are fascinated with the sound of the DVD drawer opening and closing.

For the longest time, I had used an Aiwa AV-D30 with a pair of Pioneer 3 way tower speakers. About 5 years ago, I found a pair of Fisher 3 ways that are pretty close to what I bought when I was in high school. My Aiwa, after roughly 25 years of use died on me earlier in the year. I have since replaced it with a Fisher RS-914A. I only have about a third of the albums that you have. Music was and is still my first love. I also have a passion for collecting horror films. My blu-rays I have on a shelf. Music, I had put my entire collection on my computer in flac (lossless) format. My cds are currently stored in 32qt Sterelite stackable gasket totes. Each tote can hold roughly 140 cds. What I used to do is run my computer's audio out into my stereo system. That would still be my preference, but my pc is in another room now. I use it primarily for whenever I get in the mood to either playing or recording my own music. I'm not great but I do have a few compositions I'm proud of. In any case, currently, I use a usb stick to put some music on and play through my blu-ray player. I also have a micro-SD card in my phone and keep some selections stored on it as well.

John Miles says:" Music was my first love, and it will be my last ".I think he is right. Music is wellness and health. In the world there are millions of good tunes ,that's awesome. -----Denon and Bose are really excellent brands. For your money you get high end quality. A long time ago i bought also a Denon Cd player and i was happy. Best wishes.