I stopped spinning vinyl and now only stream or spin CDs/blurays. I miss the album packaging and experience of reading the covers and any gatefold content while listening but digital sounds better IMO on my systems, is easier to access and the amount of content online is staggering.
Vinyl vs Streaming
Hey,
Hope this is OK to post here.
Do you ever find yourself questioning Vinyl in the face of Streaming?
And question yourself, why am I going through all this struggle when streaming is so much easier.
I was sitting on my couch streaming some hi res music, which was sounding great, asking this to myself.
It's just so much easier to stream and get from one song to another.
I know for some, their analog rig is much better and stronger than their digital side (if they even have one) and for others it might be the opposite.
Regardless, just wondering if you ever feel if it's worth all the extra work.
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I only stream and listen to a lot of ECM jazz recordings. Recently I thought about buying a TT just for the sake of owning a cool piece of hardware but suddenly realized that almost everything I listen to isn't available on vinyl. So I will continue building on the digital front end - better streamer and better DAC. Right now my Innuos Pulsar and Accuphase DC-37 DAC give me everything I need and like. |
Hello fellow Audiophiles, Here is my vinyl rig and my digital rig. Vinyl: Triangle Art signature(older much more massive) turntable, Tri-Planar 12" tonearm, Dynavector XV-1t cartridge, silver stepup transformers, Modwright phono pre with silver output transformers. Digital: Taiko Extreme server, Audio Mirror WAVE DAC. I find digital to be much more revealing, detailed, better dynamics and soundstage, refined, tonally balanced and makes you sucked in to the music. I pay $16-18 for Qobuz. I have access to tens of thousands albums, some of which has never been released in vinyl format. Also someone said in this forum "pay once and listen many times". While is thrue, You never know how vinyl you buy will sound until you buy and put it on your turntable. I have been disappointed many time by the sound quality of the vinyl album, not to mention that many of the albums claiming are made "direct from analog master" are actually made from a digital master, not analog. Example - MoFi. On top of that my yearly subscription to Qobuz is sometimes less that the price of high quality vinyl record.
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@fire_water ECM puts every release out on vinyl. Their record quality is renowned and quite reliable. I just ordered Jarrett - Deer Head box set 4LPs this morning on sale at Music Direct. While I also stream many ECM titles and they do sound great, some of their LPs are truly gobsmackingly amazing. Cheers, Spencer |
@sbank interesting because I can't find the ones I absolutely love on vinyl. For example Bobo Stenson Cantando. I don't know enough about vinyl and need to educate myself |
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