Let's talk music, no genre boundaries
This is an offshoot of the jazz thread. I and others found that we could not talk about jazz without discussing other musical genres, as well as the philosophy of music. So, this is a thread in which people can suggest good music of all genres, and spout off your feelings about music itself.
I have a number of Schnabel albums, playing mostly Beethoven's latter piano sonatas, but also a Schubert sonata. I don't get him. Compared to the more modern pianists I like, he sounds a bit clumsy. I know I must be missing something. @frogman Can you help me understand why Schnabel is considered great? |
No doubt it there would be practical and perhaps sonic advantages to switching from CDs to streaming. The prospect of entrusting my listening to an internet connection that can go down at any time makes me nervous. Listening to music is a very personal activity and I'd prefer to maintain my sense of privacy, illusory as it may be. I have enough difficulty with digital interfaces as it is and my mind is not getting any sharper. In the future, I can't help but believe I'll be less likely to succumb to confusion playing CDs compared to negotiating software menus. |
I began with a friend help converting cd to flac format near 20 years ago at its beginning . I went on with this method, now i bought files or i convert... It is impossible for me in my small house to store my books collection. all on digital files now nor my music collection... I am lucky i had no need for any storage now save my 600 paper books essentials what is left from my huge personal library...I own more book files than i could read for one thousand years... Same for music... Streaming ? Never ... |
It's not a proposition of one or the other. I still play CDs. But, especially belonging to this forum, I run up against so much music I don't own, that I need to use my streamer. I own a Moon 280D, and the Moon Mind interface is on my iPad and really, really easy to use. Most streamers have an easy interface. A very inexpensive introduction into streaming is to load Qubuz or Tidal or whatever on your computer then plug your computer into a D/A converter that will use standard interconnects to plug into your preamp. I'd buy a used D/A converter for this experiment. New they're as cheap as $100. Qobuz is $10 a month. So your investment can be a little over $100 to try it. Schiit has really inexpensive D/A converters. You can try it for a few months and see if you use it. If you continue on in this forum, I have no doubt you will. |
