Although there is a trend for movies and music to be stored and viewed as digital files there is still some way to go before they replace physical CD and DVD’s. The quality of a movie or the music contained on a disc is still much better than that of what is currently available online and so for the real audiophile there is no decision involved. They simply must have the best quality music that money can buy and that means having a lot of CD’s and DVD’s around the home.
CD’s and DVD do have the problem of actually taking up quite a lot of storage space and tend to collect dust fairly well. Anyone that has a large collection of CD’s will couch for how dusty they actually get so therefore finding a way to store your CD’s and DVD that keeps them free from dust is absolutely essential. So, in essence to keep them free of dust they need to be in a CD or DVD storage cabinet that is covered in some way.
There are quite a few drawer type systems that will store hundreds of DVD’s and CD available on the market and similarly there are a number of storage cabinets that have solid doors. The problem with both of these methods of media storage is that you cannot readily see what DVD’s or CD’s you have. To view your music you need to open a door or drawer and from experience I can tell you that this means that you end up only listening to a limited amount of music, because the disks you don’t listen to often end up at the bottom of the drawers.
In my opinion the best way to store CD’s or DVD’s is in a dedicated glass fronted DVD cabinet – similar to that of a book shelf. All of your films or music are on display to watch, you don’t need to open the doors to view the whole array of media you have, and they are kept free of dust. The only maintenance you may need to do is to clean the glass once a week and this is much less hassle than trying to keep your DVD collection dust free. Unlike the drawer systems, cabinets can be mounted on the wall which means that they take up significantly less floor space, which in today’s homes is a factor that shouldn’t be underestimated.
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