Big changes ... down the road


My current CD player will be my last. When it fails, I'll move to streaming (plus a cheap transport) and an external DAC.

If I decide to change my current speakers, it will be to go active.

Anyone else planning big changes ... sometime down the road?
afranta

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Not me... The "Cloud" scares the crap outta me. I guess I don't understand it and prefer tactile media. Call it nostalgia, but I like having physical copies of photos and music instead of a sketchy hard-drive full of jpegs or .aiff or whatever. I do like Elizabeths' pragmatic view, but I suspect for a while anyway there will be someone who wants these things- call it hoarding or an archival mentality, I think it's in the DNA. A hard drive full of music files, to me is the equivalent of going to a church and expecting to find God. I know the music is in there but I kind of like being reminded that it's there by catching a glimpse of album cover art when I'm not looking for it. And I can think "Oh yeah, the Stravinsky conducts Stravinsky is cool!" - even if I don't listen to it right then, I benefit from the remembrance of emotion that a prior listening left- and that can be a great feeling-perhaps the aural equivalent to olfactory triggers- the memory conjured by smelling flowers, or apple pie...