The streaming revolution.


If you had told me in my early days of listening that one day I would have easy access to virtually the entire recorded music output of mankind mostly in glorious sound and at a cost of pennies per day, I would have thought you a wild futurist. 
This revolution has come with it a predicament of delirious proportion.  What to listen to?  Even If you limit yourself to one musical genre,  the choices seem endless.  It indeed is like a kid in a candy shop for a music lover.
I’m not complaining.  I’m just in awe!

rvpiano

I'm with you. It has changed my inward focus to an outward focus. Kind of like astronomy with newer and larger telescopes... I have five. It is great learning how to effectively explore instead of the funneling to effectively buy. Whole different paradigm. 

Yes it is wonderful yet can be overwhelming. 
 

Metadata rich apps like Roon help to navigate it and will only get better at it over time. 

Quality streaming has by far provided the single biggest overall improvement to my listening experience and enjoyment of music in my almost 50 years of being an audiophile.  I truly pity those who haven’t yet discovered or fully embraced it. 

lol -- for me, getting into streaming was one of the few silver linings of the pandemic