Who is ditching their shiny disc spinners?
Arguing is not likely to change many minds. The value is, to give the provenance of what they stream/download to you, so you can say yes I'll pay (to uncompressed) or no won't pay (to compressed) issues of the same album. https://dr.loudness-war.info/album/list/year?artist=Stevie+Nicks&album=Bella+Donna They'll get me to join if they did that for starters. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Gmex_4hreQ&ab_channel=MattMayfieldMusic Cheers George |
@facten 100% agreement. I have 7,500 CDs, mostly excellently transferred or remastered (or digital like superb JVC version of Bill Holman Brilliant Corners analog 30 ips 1/2" two track 1997 recording only available on CD). No hassle, plop CD into transport and away we go. I have a high end DAC though (COS Engineering D1v). One of my friends only extracts his 3,000 (and some of my) CDs onto a thumb drive and plays that through his high end Meridian DAC. Liner notes on classical CDs can be superb booklets (such as Marston CDs). Streaming is okay but a huge hassle to achieve my analog and CD playback quality. |
Not ditching my shiny disc spinner. I’m so far in on physical media, I don’t want to spend the time or effort to rip just so I can sit on the couch and get frozen with indecision in what to play, or spend time making play lists, killer playlists, ultimate playlists. I do that now with video content - I’ll sit 10, 20, 30 minutes at a time just waffling on what to watch with the endless choices. I’ve had more problems with streaming than with physical media. My CCA just inexplicably disappears as a device to cast to - then it becomes an arcane ritual of rebooting router, modem, laptop, CCA, disable AV, re-enable - the exact sequence to get it back is random, non-repeatable, and mysterious. I become more fixated on the random dropouts, when it is working, that I never relax - always waiting for that sttttuuutter, or dropout that happens to destroy the mood. That doesn’t even count when Wrecktum...um...Spectrum internet goes out. Their commercials say 99.9% reliability. You want to know what that really means; 8 hours, 45 minutes, and 36 seconds of "allowable" downtime per year - any time of day any length of time. Streaming is great for sampling new music, but will never be a replacement to physical media for peace of mind and uninterrupted musical enjoyment. But - that is JUST me. All other opinions are wrong, for me, because in my universe I am always right. :-) |
