Streaming Is To Audio What Red Plastic Cups Are To Wine

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.

Thank you @mdalton 

Strreaming is for people who love to listen to music, period.

....and the analog arms v. digital bytes match continues, and likely always will until a direct to synapse headset debuts...

I enjoy all of these flavors; each has its' strengths/flaws, their application their own means and method.

LPS' have the mechanical beginning and end, the dance of the diamond tip stylus on the business end of the artful arm, appearing on the surfaces of the drivers into your styled space.  An art form all it's own, my preference of the tangential arm my own observation:  Listen to in the manner the master was cut.

Seems logical, Spock.  Use and care up to the owner...

Had R2R for awhile, still have cassettes.  Required anality to note Where What in particular exists on any particular one, but some have something rarified and remembered that calls for a run in one of the 2 machines I still own.

Digital began there....remember the cassettes with the early 'puters?
Yeah, not so ancient history that shrunk, sped up, and got real accurate at the read/write means...
Grow or die.

Grew into the digital domain dominance we can enjoy or disparage as we do.
The LP shines when the means to 'extract the data' is as SOTA as one can afford to employ in a procession that hasn't changed one bit.
A relatively fragile source v. a dongle the size of ones' thumb that can survive your keys in the same pocket.
My cell to my BT hearing aids, crafted to fit my aging ears, down to the 'onboard EQ' they currently demand, flexible to conform to any future fiddling needed to comply.

It all sounds different, compared to each other, no surprise there or wherever you are. Even the entire array carefully copied down to the speaker spikes will sound 'different' in different spaces due to what's in said room, ordinary furnitures or a gaggle of 'philes on folding chairs.

In the midst of it....try to enjoy the music.  Why you're there, after all.

One can parse it down to the lone angel on the pinhead, who might flip you the bird with a smile.... ;)

Too much quantum reality for my tastes, frankly. *L*
Cheers 'n jeers, J

My physical therapist says that I should get up and walk around every 20 to 30 minutes.  Sitting for an hour or more is bad for my back.  So, can I deduct the cost of my turntable and vinyl as a medical expense?