I see there are Can-am media storage file cabinets from Canada, and a couple others like it. Safco is one. Anyone have anything like this? Pics? Where to buy? impressions?
Sick of looking at my cd wall of over 800 discs
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I have five Can-Am cabinets and am very happy with them. I wish I had bought one or two more at the time as they are now stuffed full. The MDF tops, though, are nothing special - if you can make your own, do so.
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I have these in black with the tinted glass door option. Amazing units. http://www.decibeldesigns.com/products/dvd-cd-swivel-bookcase-towers.html
Anyone ever try one of these?
http://www.safcoproducts.com/products/art---engineering/multimedia/audio-video-microform-cabinet-4935lg
A different albeit very cheap approach. Free Medium Sized Priority mail boxes from USPS are the perfect height for storing around 50 CD’s. Allows for easy labeling and changing of labels on the boxes by genre. Can pull the boxes out and set on a table so people can sift through their choices. Two of the boxes sitting on top of each other fit perfectly in the IKEA Kallax cube.
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My patient carpenter built it on my request. Designed to have each single place CD removable for double CD or to be shown in vertical at my choice.800 CDs stored.
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I have 3 of the Can-am cabinets. Two of them I have had for more than 20 years and they are still like new. Highly recommend them.
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Overkill…I love overkill!
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Are the cabinets metal or dome sort of wood product?
Took a quick look at the company website and did not find anything on cabinet construction…
TIA.
The cabinets are metal.
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This looks like a happy place to be 
This could need a new thread on the forum: how you order your CDs/LPs? By artist, by genre or what else?
I prefer by decades 60s/70s/80s/90s/00s and inside a decade by artist with albums of the same artist sorted by issue release.
On a sector apart: box sets, compilations and live albums.Each position well registered on a file to easily make searching.
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Being restricted to 2 genres (Classical & Jazz), made my life easy! For LPs I use dividers and I print labels on the tabs for easy search.
Jazz is classified by Artist. Classical is classified by composer, then by sub-genre (chamber, concerto, opera, symphony, etc.)
All CDs were ripped to a Naim Uniti Core then stowed away! I’ve grown so dependent on Roon and Qobuz, I don’t feel the need for an archival database!
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I am restricted to two genres as well, normal and other. The normal collection is quite small.
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Excellent! As I consolidate homes, music and components maybe those will be in my future. Rethinking pitching jewel cases, especially if the Can-am cases will hold 1,000 CDs per drawer in rice paper sleeves.
Filled up both of my INNUOS server/streamers and still have over 2000 CDs not ripped. Ripping them was tedious, as my collection consists of soe rarities. Tracking down meta data online was tiring as much required manual entry.
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We are some what alike in that regard, those I like and … The latter fill several shoe boxes.
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