How many albums do you recognise/own?

That's great! Which prog reissues do you recommend? The King Crimson 200g reissues directly from the master tapes sound amazing. Also anything that Steven Wilson has got his hands on sounds brilliant. Would love to get my hands on more reissues that sound amazing. 

I wouldn't say that. More like rediscover. I could only discover them if I recognized the cover or am able to make out the name of the band or title. If you have the time to send me a list of the ones you like the most I wouldn't object to that. 

A few observations here(not trying to judge or be nitpicky just what I noticed):

Very little neo prog (I only saw one Marillion album)

No Ozric Tentacles 

I didn't see any prog I recognized from this decade(and just a few from the 2000's)

Mostly seventies prog with a few later ones sprinkled in

A lot of "collector" type of prog (that is to say more obscure vintage prog from the seventies)

I didn't see Il Baletto Bronzo's YS album. ;) :P

Yeah I love the German stuff too but I wanted to make a collage focused on prog and not krautrock. The pic would've been way too big and the individual albums way too small had I added the hundreds of krautrock albums from my collection. I love Dialoghi del presente by Luciano Cilio and have it in my collection although I'd classify it more as classical/minimalism/chamber music.

 

On a quick scan I own about 35 of those albums and either recognise or have listened to around another 30.

 

I always wonder though, based on some of the comments in this thread, is it better to have a small collection of albums that you know really well, or a large collection of albums most of which you've hardly listened to?

 

I can't believe that, if you own 3,000 or 4,000 albums that you get time to really listen to that many of them.

 

I don't know how many albums I own, but it's closer to 400 than 4,000 and there are, for example, Yes albums that I've played literally hundreds of times and still get something from them. 

 

I just wonder if maybe less is more when it comes to owning albums?

I have 90 that I can recognize from your collage, out of about 750 prog albums that I currently own (CD or digital). 

I recently counted all the albums I have from the top-rated lists for each sub-genre; besides "Symphonic" Prog, I only had, on average, about 5-10% of each sub-genre.  Keeps me wanting to sample and collect more!

You're absolutely right, having thousands of albums to listen to at my disposal does mean that I spend less time listening to each album multiple times and fully absorbing the music. But most of the albums in my collection that I have yet to listen to are by artists that I have heard before or someone associated with an artist or band that I love, so I have a rough idea about what to expect when blind buying. Although I have 3000+ albums in my collection, I've listened to around 85-90% of them at least twice. I've had this routine for years where I listen to one full album per day. Every morning I pick a random album from the collection, add it to my iPod and listen to it once while commuting to work and a second time while going back home. The ones that I come back to multiple times get added to my list of records to get (which currently has around 200 albums on it). My large collection also inspires me and expands my sound palette which really helps with my job as a composer/sound designer for film and game audio. Anyway, that's my current system. 

Just had another look at my collage and I actually do have Il Balletto di Bronzo's Ys on there. Column 10 Row 2.