Equipment used to play vinyls: Pro-ject Carbon with the Ortofon 2M Red cartridge, generic Kenwood amplifier, Tannoy Revolution 8XT floor speakers (pictured below), Rega fono MM pre-amplifier.

My computer comes equpped with an old Soundblaster X-Fi XtremeMusic sound card and foobar2000 is used for playback. Lossless (FLAC) is the norm in 'ere, although 1/3 of my digital music collection is still in mp3. I also have a spinclean for manual cleaning of the vinyls. Pain in the arse. Vinyl records are not likely to be scrobbled to last.fm. Gone are the compulsive days of early adulthood and nights with Universal…

The short answer - I’m kinda neat about these things.

The long answer - Since the last.fm design revamp in 2007, I noticed around 1,300 artists in my library. Around 300 had less than 3 plays. I remembered most of their names, but not the actual music or melodies. I rushed to erase one-hit-wonders and mis-tagged artists, wondering how much highly acclaimed artistic material (read:crap) one could come across. So I googled some researches on how many artists, songs or melodies a person can remember and did not find any supporting evidence. I estimate an average person can recall around…