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!
Streaming is very good now but direct ripped wav or Flac files still sound a bit better, I am working on closing that gap end point Ethernet cable is most important for $2500 you can have a state of the art cable. I am working to on maybe LHY top hub $2300 it gives a lot vs $4-5k units I am looking at the new Zesto tube Dac ,my brothers has one of the 1st units $15k is not cheap but makes everything sound special. |
@soix +1 and in agreement with the OP. What is really great is the barrier to entry is so low. |
A kid in a candy store is my feeling as well. Streaming has allowed me to go down many musical roads I had only touched on before. For music nut with eclectic taste, it’s truly a blessing. I come across so much new music that I like, the only way to keep track of it is to make playlists or use tags in Roon - otherwise I’d loose track of it. |
I was reading music reviews on TAS and another site the other night. Found about 10 jazz albums I was very interested in. 7 were available on streaming, and was great to listen in right away. Though also need CD or LP for those not available on streaming. And I agree, great situation for me, horrible for many artists...I do fear that over time a lot of great music will not be produced or recorded because of this situation… |
