Unfortunately, success here seems to be measured by how many responses, not thoughtful content.
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.
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Very true. The number of useless threads is on the rise. |
I purchased a new (used) Pass Labs Xp-25 phono preamp. It's marvelous. My next-door neighbor came over and asked me to play Bruce Springstein's "Dancing in the Dark." It sounded awful. I went to my stereo pal chatgbt and asked him why the album sounded awful. He said (and so have others) after the eightiies albums were sourced from digitized media. In the case of Springstein/, it was highly compressed digitized medium made to play on car radios. I am very careful now when I buy remastered jazz to make sure it comes from the original analogue tapes, or at least it was well mastered from 192 Khz sampling with 24 bit word length. Vinyl and digitial is now mixed up a bit or perhaps a lot. On my Moon 280D streamer, digital at 192 Khz can sound as good or better than some digitized records. For example, ABKO's rereleases of the Stones sound pretty bad. |
You've made helpful comments in other threads, but this isn't one of them. Also, look up "elitism". @fastfreight @audphile1 @2psyop Can't even say you've made helpful comments in other threads 😂🤣
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Seriously now, thank you to all who took the time to chime in, and thank you for your thoughtful and heartfelt comments. My original post was a little shoot-from-the-hip but it was sincere. I didn’t mean to proclaim the supremacy of vinyl - after all, I stream more than I spin vinyl (and CDs). No, my point was made in reference to how we experience different media, and to my own personal opinion that the vinyl experience is fuller, more all-encompassing than others - for lack of a better word. Outstanding sound quality can be had from all media. At the end of the day, it’s all about the music. |
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