CD storage question

Space-Saving CD Sleeves
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Each package contains 100 CD Sleeves for $13.99.
If you're running out of space for your CD collection, consider getting rid of the space hogging jewel box and replacing them with these gatefold sleeves. These clear 4mil thick sleeves hold both the front cover and back graphics to create an LP-like gatefold. They take up 75% less space than the jewel box. The spine even shows, much like an LP.

wow - they're pretty good. DJ Martian - do you use these?

Hell no it's not just you. I'm down the the 'case. I even put plastic sleeves over digipack cases too, but then that is the vinyl junkie in me bleeding into the cd collection.

That's cool you've found a solution you like and all, but there's something about rubbermaid plastic furniture that just kinda rubs me the wrong way.

not getting what you mean by isolation. explain?

Well, you could always glue it on.

Basically you want a turntable to be decoupled from the floor so vibrations don't get to it. Often you'll see audiophiles putting turntables on shelves mounted to the wall for this reason (and even then it will often be sitting on top of a block of some really dense material). If you're gonna put a turntable on top of some kind of furniture, it needs to be on something very dense to keep vibration from coming up from the floor through whatever it's sitting on. That's why high-end stereo racks are usually heavy as fuck and often have those little pointy feet at the bottom instead of casters or normal furniture legs. The little points make for less contact with the floor, so less vibration travels up the whole structure. The dense material construction (which adds the weight) also allows for less vibration to reach the top of the thing, which is almost always where the turntable lives.

This is the same reason that really good turntables always have very heavy platters which are suspended in the structure so even if the legs and the plinth are taking a bunch of vibration, the table itself sits still.

Something as lightweight as plastic is definitely going to conduct vibration better than other materials.

Incidentally, you'll also see the tiny point-legs on the bottoms of speaker stands because you want your speakers decoupled from whatever they're on for the opposite reason. You don't want speakers to create a false image by resonating, say, the cabinet they're sitting on, since this will produce more bass than the speaker actually means to produce. (Though sure in some cases it might sound better in the room if your bookshelf is adding bass to an otherwise puny woofer, it's definitely no good if the room is already pretty acoustically sound. One of the most common problems for folks learning to mix things in a home studio setting is undermixing bass because they can't hear it correctly when their monitors are sitting on top of a big wooden desk, cabinet or bookshelf.)

Well, you could always glue it on.

That's about the last thing you'd want to do with a turntable, because it's the exact opposite of decoupling.

I hear you though, and it's cool that the finished look is something you like.

My girlfriend and I are planning to put another bedroom and bathroom into what is now the attic of our house, and part of the reason is because there are just too many fucking records and cds in every room of the house at the moment.

There should probably be a thread somewhere warning people not to use the question "Explain?" when addressing me regarding anything having to do with audio. ;)

http://www.musiciansfriend.com/srs7/g=home/search/detail/base_id/76176

(If that link doesn't work just look for "Auralex Mopads" on google or something.)

Seriously, I'm not a shill for Auralex (and there are plenty of cheaper ways to treat a room for acoustics), but this product is genius, and I've not seen anybody else who makes anything like it.

i saw one deejay with all his cds in kind of a filing system. i think he had them just in pvc sleeves, but with little filing cards. the only thing i worry about that though is id like to get some pvc sleeves where the back inlay of cd packaging can fit into the pvc sleeve the right way up. anyone know of such sleeves?