Streaming Is To Audio What Red Plastic Cups Are To Wine

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?

In order of preference I listen to:

1. Vinyl
2. Ripped CDs, etc.
3. Qobuz

Leaving aside sound quality, there is something about vinyl that makes it a more absorbing experience for me. There are several reasons why this may be the case.

I think the fact that records present music in bite sized chunks of about 20 minutes per side and about 45 minutes per disc is an important factor. In education, they appreciate the need to structure lessons in order to prevent students getting bored.

So often, modern albums have padding to fill up the equivalent space of a CD. I find myself picking up the iPad and thinking "Are we there yet?" That rarely happens with a vinyl record.

The single vinyl album from the era before CDs came along was a succinct artistic statement. That’s the way I most enjoy music. After all, there weren’t many truly great double albums.

Streaming sq bypassed vinyl years ago. I sold my $15k vinyl setup and my 600 albums over 6 years ago and never looked back. I also sold my $3500 highly rated cd player almost 20 years ago because ripped music sounded better than cds. I still have a sacd player that I think I turned it on once in the last 4 years.

Whats comical about these digital vs analog posts are that the vinyl lovers have a nice analog setup but then use cheap crap for their digital stuff and they wonder why digital sounds like crap. Same goes for the digital sound, you have to really spend some good cash to get vinyl to sound good, at least 5-digits worth. With vinyl you will always have the maintenance issues, the wear issues, the lack of vinyl of your favorite artists, the need to get up to skip a track, on and on, plus the BEST sound from an album will always be the last time you played it because of wear.