Beyond a certain point, there becomes a problem with collecting: where to put your new acquisitions. That question came to mind, recently, after the prudent prudent purchase of yet another headphone: The Audio Technica ATH-ADG1, and I found myself looking at other items, and found that I had nowhere to put them.
Display cases and or store shelving becomes mandatory to the serious connoisseur of small items. Often, it become a question of value.
As a student, I was amazed by my friends at Borderline Technologies, Chris and Bini Ball. They were a young couple, and yet had begun amassing a small library of technical books. Cost did not seem to be a prohibitive issue, and so long as the subject matter was covered with sufficient technical acumen, they were happy to have it in their collection.
Later, as they had produced, Angus and Erin, two lovely children, I was amazed at their DVD collection. On one wall of their home, they had constructed a large industrial shelving storage system to hold what must far too many DVD's for any fiscally conservative individual to consider. The system was impressive, but that it held DVD's of Hollywood film transfers (DVD's are not films, after all), was insane.
They had always been avid media collectors. I could remember fondly their playing Stan Roger's "Barrett's Privateers" off Fogarty's Cove.
Barrett's Privateers:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIwzRkjn86w
I could remember their large Criterion Collection of Laserdiscs, during that era, and was amazed that anyone would wish to invest in that format. Other than Dragon's Lair, and Space Ace, what was the point, I figured.
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