Why vinyl

@stievus 

“Hello to you!”

Yes, I’ll say it…We’re “SENIORS”. Getting up and down from my listening chair to change Vinyl or CD’s  is more a chore these days with the aches and pains of aging, knee replacement, etc..So now I’m opting to use streaming as my primary source for continuous listening.

I started with a BlueSound Node Icon and switched to the McIntosh CS200 Streaming DAC. The Node Icon I thought was good enough until I heard the CS200. Which is superior in sound quality but I find its user interface difficult to navigate. Too many steps to connect and get going. The Node Icon was very easy to setup and use. I still have it and just use it in another room in the house.

Using the streamer with Quobuz, or Tidal makes a big difference in listening quality as well. I have both but will settle for just one after Quobuz trial ends. I find Spotify, now that it has Lossless tracks, to be fine when I want background music. I’ve had Spotify for a few years now and have built 30 plus personal playlists, which took a lot of time to produce. I’m not sure if I want to take the time to reproduce them just to get the higher quality sound.

I must say that human are not machine. Their creativity and freedom lay in their biases history and  chosen values, branded meaningless by those who want to make mankind a blank slate...

By giving love to your turntable and vinyls you express human singularity and the irreducible value of meaning over only practical command...

i dont need vinyl myself but this dont means that i had no idea about what "vinyl" means ...

@gjfalls 

"Yes, I’ll say it…We’re “SENIORS”. Getting up and down from my listening chair to change Vinyl or CD’s  is more a chore these days with the aches and pains of aging, knee replacement, etc..So now I’m opting to use streaming as my primary source for continuous listening."

You could never get me to lay down and die!

Yep, I try to take care of my aging father-in-law as best I can (he’s 90), and the single most important thing for him is he needs to keep moving, rather than just sitting in front of the tv and wait to die.  If only I could get him interested in vinyl?  He’d have to get up out of that chair every 30 minutes or so.  Alas, he can barely hear, and has never had much interest in music.

@gjfalls As were off topic. Moving playlists from one platform to another is easy enough.

Like grilling, baking sourdough bread, assembling something from a tough schematic and you name it all have a lot of overlap with the love and care of vinyl records. In many ways, it’s a true labor of love. Why not? Nothing good typically comes easy peezy.

A few test tracks https://open.qobuz.com/playlist/3511772