Streaming Is To Audio What Red Plastic Cups Are To Wine


Unpacking and going through my vinyl collection, it occurs to me that vinyl is it, whereas streaming is Audio’s red plastic cup.

The best wines taste low-shelf in the red plastic cup. Yes, the red plastic cup is cheap and convenient, just like streaming. Wine should feel the same regardless of the vessel - it’s the same wine - but it does not. So should music - but it does not. Streamed music may sound (nearly) as good as vinyl, but it feels... disposable. Vinyl does not. Vinyl is the thing. Vinyl is it! Just my opinion, of course.

devinplombier

I was watching a TV show tonight and the subject of Vinyl came up, just in passing, as having a warmer sound.  The response summed up the  whole thing for me.

"Vinyl lovers listen with their hearts.  Everyone else listens with their ears"   Have truer words ever been spoken?  Cheers.   

Did anyone say single malt ?

We are XXth. century people, tape and vinyl. Digital has no real place in our world, no meaning. We use it for convenience from time to time, as we do other things, that's all.