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

Bunch of scientific studies and double blind tests, show that plastic cups do affect the taste and fragrance of wine…not for the better…

About the word "elite"...

I consider myself "elite" because i studied Greek,Latin and English (by reading science or philo. books only)...

I consider myself "elite" audiophile... Because i learned basic acoustics not because i own high end gear... smiley

I know my post will create controverse...but a word is not always pejorative in all context...

Demagogical use of the word "elite" is not my thing...

For sure  this is why the word "elite" attributed to oligarchs and people aiming at money and power in society revulse me ...

 

 
 

 

 

@devinplombier 

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.

Absolutely.

 

@mylogic

You have got the winers going. 

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Lol, occurs to you? Lol. Like its a fact or something. Im an audiophile, I stream and my system sounds amazing. Id go pepsi challenge to any system in the same dollar range, or even above it. I gave my records to my son who thinks they are cool. It is well known that records are a dinosaur and not a high fidelity option. They were the media at the time, but even artists, producers and sound engineers of that time will tell you, what they really wanted you to hear was not allowed by the technology. Are records a quaint hobby? Sure, but let’s not make false statements and say the fidelity was better with them. If opinions are cast aside, because everyone got one, the graphs show the linear advantages of not using records. If you say, I dont go by what specs and graphs say, thats fine too, but please dont make opinion statements acting like they are fact. How about, in my opinion, records sound better than streaming because.......then you list exactly what you hear different. Thats fine. But falsely bashing a media you dont like or understand, doesn’t make it inferior. Gives false info to those who are still learning in this hobby.