No doubt it there would be practical and perhaps sonic advantages to switching from CDs to streaming. The prospect of entrusting my listening to an internet connection that can go down at any time makes me nervous. Listening to music is a very personal activity and I'd prefer to maintain my sense of privacy, illusory as it may be. I have enough difficulty with digital interfaces as it is and my mind is not getting any sharper. In the future, I can't help but believe I'll be less likely to succumb to confusion playing CDs compared to negotiating software menus.
Let's talk music, no genre boundaries
This is an offshoot of the jazz thread. I and others found that we could not talk about jazz without discussing other musical genres, as well as the philosophy of music. So, this is a thread in which people can suggest good music of all genres, and spout off your feelings about music itself.
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I began with a friend help converting cd to flac format near 20 years ago at its beginning . I went on with this method, now i bought files or i convert... It is impossible for me in my small house to store my books collection. all on digital files now nor my music collection... I am lucky i had no need for any storage now save my 600 paper books essentials what is left from my huge personal library...I own more book files than i could read for one thousand years... Same for music... Streaming ? Never ... |
It's not a proposition of one or the other. I still play CDs. But, especially belonging to this forum, I run up against so much music I don't own, that I need to use my streamer. I own a Moon 280D, and the Moon Mind interface is on my iPad and really, really easy to use. Most streamers have an easy interface. A very inexpensive introduction into streaming is to load Qubuz or Tidal or whatever on your computer then plug your computer into a D/A converter that will use standard interconnects to plug into your preamp. I'd buy a used D/A converter for this experiment. New they're as cheap as $100. Qobuz is $10 a month. So your investment can be a little over $100 to try it. Schiit has really inexpensive D/A converters. You can try it for a few months and see if you use it. If you continue on in this forum, I have no doubt you will. |
I think audio-b-dog is right here. If i had not already a huge amount of files i will stream... I am not motivated to do it because i had more music than most people here... But it is useful to stream a new composer or album before deciding to purchase it ... I dont need it but most people need it... Myself i use youtube to listen a new musician, if it please me i go for the files...
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I don't think I'll ever buy a CD again. I have over 1,000 CDs which I play using my streamer's D/A converter. Although, many CDs I own are on Qobuz as much richer files. A CD samples 44.1 thousand times a second with a 16-bit word length. Often the same album is offered on Qobuz with up to 192K sampling and a 24-bit word length. All the math doesn't really matter. It sounds much better. I had the same resistance as @stuartk. I dismissed streaming, thinking I had enough music with 1,000 vinyl records and over 1,000 CDs. Being on this forum and the jazz forum has really got me using my streamer a lot. It's part of my ethos to try to keep up with new things. I don't want to be an old man who is totally out of it. I want to keep surprising my granddaughters. Also, when @stuartk introduced me to Wayne Shorter, I probably would have bought an album or two until I heard how rich his albums sounded on Qobuz. I don't need to go out and buy them on vinyl. I feel like I own the albums of his that I like. Just plug in Wayne Shorter's name and there is nearly all the albums he ever recorded. |
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