Streaming Is To Audio What Red Plastic Cups Are To Wine

I listen to Classical and the amount of choice in streaming is staggering .  So many concert releases that I didn’t know existed.  Limiting myself to physical media and I would miss the ability to hear most of it.

  I do love my box set of CD releases.  Nothing like pulling a box with 90 CDs by the likes of the Philadelphia Orchestra in their prime and playing a fantastic disc pulled at random. Most o these are available to stream but it is more fun to pull them from box.  However I’m out of storage space for these doorstops…

   So I get the physical attraction to vinyl and I respect those that admit their love of vinyl preference is a love for the ritual and not sound quality related.  I view that ritual with distaste, but that’s my perspective 

Has anyone mentioned “click bait” or “attention seeker”?

Music is  a body gesture and  a spiritual event...

It has nothing to do with vinyl or digital...

Nothing to do with rituals or habits even if we had all of us our own rituals...

Meanings experience and recognition is a mystery transcending even acoustics as we know it ...

Unfortunately, success here seems to be measured by how many responses, not thoughtful content.

 

fastfreight

1,165 posts

02-08-2026 at 10:05am 

Unfortunately, success here seems to be measured by how many responses, not thoughtful content.
 

Very true. The number of useless threads is on the rise.