Audio system is in an adjourning room. Tastefully done!
How did you collect all those music? super jealous.
It would be cool to see his media room. 
I began 2001 with iTunes as player software. But collecting is one thing, caring for the database and the correct tags and highres covers the other thing.
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Exactly what I was thinking. It’s a normal (nice) room
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So you have bought around a dozen albums every day for the last 20 years? Why? if every album is around 45 minutes average that would mean listening to some 9 hours of music every day to even hear theße albums. And in addition to this i would wager around an hours work for cleaning up metadata.
Not to mention the cost, which i’d estimate at around €120 for a dozen albums, every day! Impressive!
Do you know about Beets?
https://beets.readthedocs.io/en/stable/index.html#
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I had as a start some thousand CD‘s from the 90s which I began to rip and learn how to deal with the corresponding folderstructure, the iTunes database, ID3 tags, covers and so on. I remember there was a year when I only searched for album covers because they were missing. I bought some smaller CD collections, too, ripping followed.
In these times I wasn‘t listening with good equipment. And everything was mp3 format only. Mostly direct from the Mac with Apple Soundsticks with iSub for example. At this time I had about 165.000 mp3s nicely organized. Guess what happened when my brother introduced me to the audiophile world… I think I reripped most of the material again in lossless formats!
So, this was one project of many with the goal to reach a better quality. Tagging kind of never ends and now with Roon I have begun to automate some things with Yate and lastly Songkong…
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Very nice equipment.
Some gear we don’t see everyday.
And some nice tuning choices.
I use Bliss to keep my files and tags in properly order.
https://www.blisshq.com/
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I only began some months ago with tagging automation. You really have to know exactly what you do or you have more work after a false automation job. I found Songkong is right for automating tagging as you can specify exactly how external databases like Discogs can be used in tagging your library. Others might do a good job as well.
Today I did some folders with maybe 14000 tracks with Songkong, after that started Roon to identify the ones formerly not known and add the newly found tags with Songkong in Roon.
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So one gets all the tags in order and everything is just one likes and wants it. Automated or done manually, either way, everything is just so and then one adds this perfectly tagged recording to Roon’s music library and Roon identifies the recording and replaces all those wonderful, information filled tags with GARBAGE! Oh how I love Roon! 
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A few changes to my setup since I last posted. I’m now running roon direct to Hegel H120 then Kef Reference 1s (replacing R3s and Rel sub). I also have a Rega P1+ and an old Arcam CD72. Roon is running on the Mac mini you might spot on the left hand shelves.
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Haha, yes I have also been down the re-ripping route, about 3 times on the road that finally led to flac.
And the amount of time spent searching for or scanning, and then sorting out, album covers. It is painful to think about it 
I have had the Kef Reference 1’s for nearly two years and I love them! I have mine slightly toe’d and pulled forward more compared to yours but they sounded excellent in my tests regardless.
Running with a Musical Fidelity M6SI amp, Topping D90 DAC, rpi4 (with HQ Player NAA installed) and Home Audio Fidelity filters. Core is on Ubuntu server with HQ Player Embedded.
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So here’s a bunch of pics ( if I’ve done this right ). Two 2 channel systems and an AV system. The main system has an Auralic G2 streamer feeding a Denafrips Terminator Plus DAC and two amps, a Kinki Studio EX-M1 and an Allnic Audio 300b SET tube amp. The speakers are Zingali Overture 4 floorstanders with twin subs by BK.
The smaller study system has an Auralic Femto streamer feeding a Burson Conductor 3XP DAC/amp, a PrimaLuna Prologue 2 amp and Kef LS50 speakers with a single BK sub.
The AV system utilises a Sony and Oppo disc players, a Denon X6500h amp and Fyne Audio 500 series speakers with Kef Atmos units. The sub is a BK Monolith Plus and I use a Chromecast Audio as a Roon endpoint as I think it sounds better than HEOS. Video streaming courtesy of a Fire Stick HD.
My Roon Core and library are on SSDs in a pc built expressly for the purpose from spare parts.
If the pics don’t upload I will try again.
Incidentally, as you can see, there is a certain amount of furniture shifting required for critical listening on the main system. Also there is a drop down projector screen in the AV system as no room for a big telly. I use an Epson 4k projector.
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Running my Core on an Seagate HD via my MacBook Pro.
Speakers: Klipsch RP-8000F.
Amp: PrimaLuna Prologue Five.
Preamp: NAD C 165BEE.
Streamer: Bluesound Node 2.
DAC: Denafrips Ares II.
CD Transport: Cambridge Audio CXC.
Also streaming Roon to my home theater setup and bedroom setup via a couple of Apple TVs.
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Been awhile since I posted after my move. Got a NUC computer for Roon and it works very good so far I’m happy with it. Also got a new cart added to my stable of carts , this one is my daily and it punches way above its belt for how affordable it is, it’s an AT-OC9XSL.
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Very nice. Your left channel is firing right into a couch. Just my onion.
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