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

That whole absolutism about every sound difference being distortion is just ridiculous ASR garbage.

In real life, the sound is altered at every step of the process. Microphones, they alter the sound. Drugs the recording engineer took, they alter the sound. Whether the mastering engineer rushed it because he hoped to get laid later that night alters the sound, but would you call that distortion?

The bottom line is, the only way you’ll ever hear the singer’s voice as it sounded on the night of the performance is if you were there in the room on the night of the performance. And yet, it would have sounded very different whether you sat in 4C or 28AF.

Therefore, we should consider ourselves lucky enough when a system’s end sound is pleasing to our ears.

 

@antigrunge2 

So what is added to the master other than distortiin in your mind?

If you look back to my previous posts, you will see it may well be a case of less noise and distortion rather more.

Streamer vinyl- is a juke box vinyl for those who don’t want to relax 

if you put in  T. The investment  digital is great.