Streaming Is To Audio What Red Plastic Cups Are To Wine

@wokeuptobose 

Interesting to hear how different your listening habits are from mine.

For me, it's all about the album, whether old or new music. It would almost be sacrilegious to skip a track - shadows and light. Jeff Tweedy and David Lowery both have recent triple albums that I happily listen to all the way through. I hate having to stop listening before a record gets to the final run out groove. 

The only exception is if Roon Radio kicks in at the end of an album. I enjoy the serendipity of that much more than a playlist that I've made up myself.  

@newton_john wrote:

For me, it’s all about the album, whether old or new music. It would almost be sacrilegious to skip a track -

I am the same way, regardless of medium - whether I spin vinyl or a CD or stream, I almost always listen to complete albums.

The only exception is FM radio - and yes I do listen to FM quite a bit because we are lucky to have two good, commercial-free jazz and classical stations around here - but when you think about it, it’s not all that different in the sense that albums and radio broadcasts are both curated, whether by the artist or by the DJ.

@wokeuptobose wrote: 

if you preview an album on digital then buy it, you lower the risk. We are lucky to have all these options

That is absolutely true

Also @nubiann thank you for a great post! Although I prefer not to think of myself as a fundamentalist, I admit to feeling that all music media being equal, vinyl is a little bit more equal than the others. 🙂

I find it pretty amazing that a 120+ year-old electromechanical technology can still be a leader today in terms of sound quality, honestly.

devinplombier Thanks for your kind words of appreciation. I can see why the Fundamentalist connotation may suggest something it wasn't meant to. I apologise for not being clear about what I meant. In this context. I meant  = essential, or a foundational principle etc. I appreciate the word could imply something else and that was never my intention. Keep posting interesting discussion points, we thrive on it.

Since the ‘90s all vinyl has been digitally recorded. How replaying it in the analogue domain is supposed to improve on the sound quality remains this OP’s secret.

@antigrunge2 

Since the ‘90s all vinyl has been digitally recorded. How replaying it in the analogue domain is supposed to improve on the sound quality remains this OP’s secret.

That’s a complete non sequitur. Nobody said it does.

In fact, the reverse is true. It’s better to have as much of the replay chain in the digital domain as possible to reduce noise and distortion. The sound character of a vinyl record is unchanged by subsequent ADC and DAC. The really weird thing is that most systems convert digital sources back to analogue earlier than is necessary or desirable.​

In any case, the OP has repeatedly said sound quality is not the issue.