Saw this thread late, but here goes:
I’m an odd fish, and old fashioned, living in a 3-apartment and occasionally in our summer house. I have definitely kept way too many things over the years. I listened to and worked with audio a lot way back, especially while making The Beatles Swedish fan club magazines for 11 years, now it’s almost just listening to The Beatles variations I have time for. Don’t use streaming services, must buy DVD’s and CD’s and vinyls. I just have to have something physical to look at and hold in my hands.
Nowadays I mostly save things digitally on 3 Synology NAS’s (each with 2 WD Red 12TB discs) but occasionally burn DVD’s and CD’s, sometimes doing artwork to print.
I also plan to go through my old VHS’s and digitize what’s worth saving to DVD, same with DAT tapes and reel-to-reel tapes and cassettes etc (to CD probably - in case it hasn’t been shared here I will upload then).
I have 3 Tascam reel-to-reels, several cassette players (Technics mostly), Pioneer DVD player, Sony Mini-Disc player, 2 Tascam DAT’s, several CD players (TEAC, Technics and others, the one I mainly use is a Luxman) and lots of 19” rack mounted analogue studio effects I seldom use now. 3 vinyl players (Technics), 2 stereo amps (Sony, Technics) and monitors (Tannoy) plus speakers (Carlson etc) and a selection of headphones (AKG, Sony). Also have 3 recording systems with mixers etc from Tascam and Roland, the first (Tascam 2488) recorded 8-tracks on high speed chrome cassettes, second 16 tracks 24-bit on hard drive (Roland VS-1680) - it connects through SCSI so I’ve kept 3 old Mac computers that can handle those, and newest Tascam P-24 (24 tracks on SD-cards). Also 2 Zoom handheld recorders (H2, H4n). TV with 2.1 amp (small speakers/useless sub) to watch news, Pioneer DVD-R burner, Pioneer VHS player. To my 5 Mac computers I have CD and DVD-player/burners (using Toast) and a Pioneer Blu-ray player/burner.
Downstairs I have a 55” Sony TV, 2 surround systems (Pioneer, Marantz) with separate floor/wall speakers/sub’s (Jamo/Canton, B&W/Argon), Pioneer DVD/DVD-A/SACD/CD player, Sony Blu-ray player, Pioneer VHS player. Mini system with CD player (Philips?) and a smaller Wurlitzer copy cassette player with lights (cool). Kitchen TV with DVD player and 2.1 amp (speakers/sub), Sony VHS player and something else I can’t remember now as we’re not at home.
The third apartment is slowly becoming my Beatle room, there’s a 40-something” Samsung TV, my old 1957 Philips 22” b&w analogue TV I saw The Beatles on the first time, 2 Pioneer DVD players, Technics amp with floor speakers, Sony surround system with speakers/sub, Lenco L75 vinyl player, B&O 2000 reel-to-reel, a few mini systems with CD players (JVC), old Philips radio-gramophone (sadly without the tube radio but with the 78 rpm disc player), my first record player (small Philips). And tons of Beatles vinyls, CD’s, DVD’s (incl bootlegs), books, magazines, instruments. 2 Mac computers, etc.
Summer house Grundig 55” TV with NEC surround amp (CD/DVD player), wall speakers/sub (Canton/Dantax), Panasonic Blu-ray player. Kitchen TV Sony with 2.1 amp (CD/DVD player) speakers/sub. Several mini-systems here and there (Technics, Panasonic, JVC etc with CD players). Two Mac computers and hard drives, one 2TB I use for transport home. Guess that’s it (apart from everything else)
Robert