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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
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newton_john
571 posts
 

Well, it didn’t take long to weight up Qobuz direct to the streamer and Asset UPnP against Roon. The sound quality of Asset and Qobuz absolutely trounces that of Roon in my system. For me, no amount of functionality and integration can make up for that. It’ll be UPnP for me from now on. 

devinplombier
1,676 posts
 

The sound quality of Asset and Qobuz absolutely trounces that of Roon in my system.

Unsurprising. That's a low bar 😂😂🤣

bipestuff
34 posts
 

@ fire_water

I guess I'm old fashioned and enjoy having the physical disc, and a way to rebuilt my library should my NAS fail.

 

inagroove
265 posts
 

@soix 

"I truly pity those who haven’t yet discovered or fully embraced it."

Streaming provides a vast array of content, yet seldom if ever is that content's SQ on par with well recorded and reproduced analogue music.

I reconcile this by noting that so many of the folks who have embraced streaming on AG (e.g. in the hi-fi market) are at the age where significant hearing-loss is a fact of life.  

Sorry, but my sympathy runs in the opposite direction...

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