For all the moods and all the occassions, I just keep letting my collection grow.
Although I am sorry not to have mention my collection of the Motown sounds, country music, Big Band, Jazz, Rock and more, there is just so many to mention.
Curtis Mayfield, Marvin Gaye, Little Stevie Wonder, Mary Wells, Martha & The Vandellas and the list goes on and on for just the Motown sounds alone.
I have taken all my original disks and put them onto 100 count spindles after coping them into my hard drives. This saves space and WEIGHT! All the original CD's & covers are scanned & then stacked into a small box, should I ever care to go through them again. All the original jewel cases have all been thrown out (those things get heavy & take too much space when you add them up).
You can't beat the high quality sound of the WAV's. but yes, I agree the 96, 128 & 160 MP3 settings can create a simular sound quality that of a 33 rpm vinyl record without the scrathes (with that limited frequency response), or even sounds simular to a high quality cassette tape (still hissy)(ah! memories). That's how we listened to those oldies originally and that is why they sound better to us with the bassy, tinny, not full frequency spectrum sound with out-of-phase equalization and distored high and low ranges. (grin)
Keep on truckin' people and shake, shake, shake, those booty's to the sounds that have given us fun, fun, fun and Lazy Day's to remember walking in the sand, riding the wild surf, or hearing it through the grapevine about the itsy bitsy teeny weenie yellow polka dot bikini that she wore for the first time today.