[kgcdc]

I own three of these "industrial modern" LP Bins from Thomas Filiaggi in Virginia. Highly recommended.

http://loft3f.com/item.php?item_id=450

Cheers,
Kendall

[cheap-Jack]

Hi.

I own three of these "industrial modern" LP Bins from Thomas Filiaggi in Virginia. Highly recommended

WOW, $650x3+taxes was over one grand. You're rich & willing, my friend.
If I had yr money, I'd burn mine. My question is: how many LPs one such buggy can hold?

I am a cheap jack, so I store all my many hundred LPs on 1-ft tall strong built open carton-boxes, DIY modified to hold LPs. I locate them along one side of the wall, seated side by side on particle boards on the carpetted concrete floor of my basement audio den.

I purposely use LOW profile carton boxes ALL seated on the floor because:-

(1) paper cartons to ensure certain absorption, instead of reflection, of soundwaves from the loudspeakers;
(2) LOW LOW profile (only 1ft high from the floor) will minimize uncontrolled reflection/diffusion of soundwaves.
(3) low lying LPs will NOT distract my attention of music listening.
(4) cost me nothing as the carton boxes were picked free from grocery stores.

So I've saved big bucks yet acquired the best solution of holding large LP collection, sonically.

I am cheap but smart as well.

c-J

[Laundrew]

This works...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7deJQcERu8s

Be well...

[Elizabeth]

When I was young, i use large concrete squares upright with boards.. (the boards were actually narrow doors. worked well for me back then.
When I went back to Lps in mid 90's i bought a pile of Sauder TV stands and modular 13" squares which matched. So I have 6 doubles across, and four high, of those style modules, (I added extra bracing in the bottom row) then the top two rows are the single modules. plus one stack of all single modules. Store my 6,00 Lps nicely. and keeps me from expanding. As i refuse to add more than what fits into the shelving I have.
Prevents me from winding up on "Hoarders"...

Natually all this 'philosophy' is AFTER i had to move last time. Wherein i had to rather suddenly move, and had 12,000 plus LPs, half in boxes stuck everywhere in my apt.
The carnage of throwing away half of my LPs was not pretty.
Actually mostly Classical music got the ax. and Rock dups..
So now i am happy to own 2,000 Classical. 2,000 Rock. and 2,000 Jazz LPs. Which weigh about one ton. Just about maximum load for the floor of an for an apartment dweller.
(I knew a co-worker who had so many Lps his floor started sagging and it seriously cracked the ceiling of the person below him. He was evicted for having 25,000 LPs (four tons) in his third floor living room.... amazing the floor did not just cave in)
I keep all my Lps in the bedroom. Leaves plenty of clear space on the listening area.
I paid about $40 x 24 plus $25 x 24 (+tax)  or $1,600. for my shelving.
So yeah I paid a lot. considering i am so cheap.
It is going to last though. and is modular, so when I moved it was not a problem to do the move myself.

[orthobiz]

The bins the OP has are good if your record collection does not go into the thousands. I had considered something like that to temporarily store my latest hauls before definitive storage, maybe even put current "in rotation" disks on the top shelf. But I wound up with Expedit instead.

Paul

[cheap-Jack]

Hi.

Store my 6,000 Lps nicely. and keeps me from expanding. As i refuse to add more than what fits into the shelving I have.
Prevents me from winding up on "Hoarders"...

had 12,000 plus LPs, half in boxes stuck everywhere in my apt.
The carnage of throwing away half of my LPs was not pretty.

Actually mostly Classical music got the ax. and Rock dups..
So now i am happy to own 2,000 Classical. 2,000 Rock. and 2,000 Jazz LPs. Which weigh about one ton. Just about maximum load for the floor of an for an apartment dweller.

May I ask a silly question: you're are a collector ("hoarder") or a listener of LPs?

Even though one is retired & needs to kill time by playing vinyls, any 24-hour day can only play 48 LPs NON-stop. Assuming one only plays its favourite LPs, still no way in a reasonable long lifetime span. one can listen thru many thousands of them.

So why NOT simply keep, say, a few hundreds hot favourite LPs, & store away the rest tons of them in a public warehouse.

Let live in a good lifestyle rather than being 'victimized' by hoarding tons of heavy plastics in a limited home area assuming the homemates can live with such conjested condition.

c-J

[WGH]

Having a lot of LP's at your fingertips is like a craftsman with jars and jars of assorted screws, in all likelihood you have what you need when you need it.

And yes, I have both.

Wayne

[catastrofe]

I use these:  http://www.wood-tech.com/catalog/49/lp_storage

Excellent mid-priced solution.

[jtwrace]

I use these:  http://www.wood-tech.com/catalog/49/lp_storage

Excellent mid-priced solution.

WOW!  They're only 30 min from me.   

[ncblue]

I use this: www.lpbin.com
Similar, but more affordable.

[decal]

This is affordable........

[dokblues]

I got ambitious and built these for record storage. Baltic birch plywood with Purple Heart accents. Should hold approximately 650 LP`s each.

[orthobiz]

I am a cheap jack, so I store all my many hundred LPs on 1-ft tall strong built open carton-boxes, DIY modified to hold LPs. I locate them along one side of the wall, seated side by side on particle boards on the carpetted concrete floor of my basement audio den.

I am cheap but smart as well.

c-J

I live in a 500 year flood plain, adjacent to a lake. Four years ago we had our perfect 500 year storm and our basement flooded. 4" of water destroyed the basement and we were down to cinderblock and studs. Glad my records weren't on the floor! And you don't have to live on the water to have flooding in the house...

Stay dry...

Paul

[JoshK]

Slightly off-topic, but these shelves look awesome!

http://loft3f.com/item.php?item_id=385

[kgcdc]

Slightly off-topic, but these shelves look awesome!

http://loft3f.com/item.php?item_id=385

Variants of those are my equipment racks. Very solid, non-reasonant.

Cheers,
Kendall

[JoshK]

Got any photos?

[Part-Time Audiophile]

Awesome stuff here. The Lot3f stuff is hot.

[vinyl_guy]

I prefer storing my lps with the spine facing me. My 1,500+ lps are stored in alphabetical order by artist. I use deep, floor to ceiling book shelves across the back wall, a custom built oak lp rack, Mapleshade lp racks (http://shop.mapleshadestore.com/prodinfo.asp?number=RR-MAP-CL) and Boltz lp racks (http://www.boltz.com/entertainment-furniture/lp-storage.html). About 40% of my lps are stored on shelves in my basement about 3 ft off the floor.

[J-Pak]

I prefer storing my lps with the spine facing me. My 1,500+ lps are stored in alphabetical order by artist. I use deep, floor to ceiling boook shelves across the back wall, a custom built oak lp rack, Mapleshade lp racks (http://shop.mapleshadestore.com/prodinfo.asp?number=RR-MAP-CL) and Boltz lp racks (http://www.boltz.com/entertainment-furniture/lp-storage.html). About 40% of my lps are stored on shelves in my basement about 3 ft off the floor.

I attempted to start organizing alphabetically a couple of years ago. I found it impossible as additions kept coming in, I would have to keep moving things around. Now everything goes in the next Expedit cubicle until it is filled then onto the next one 

[MaxCast]

I got ambitious and built these for record storage. Baltic birch plywood with Purple Heart accents. Should hold approximately 650 LP`s each.

I built one very similar.  All from one sheet of plywood.  A great afternoon or two with the boys but now it's about filled up