Majority Of Your Listening Is Online Streaming Service, Do You Buy CD's Or Vinyl Any More?


Do you care to own hard copies of your recordings any more?

mitch4t

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I go thru phases these days

  • I have a large collection of CDs about 70% has been RIP'd and placed my dedicated music server
  • I have about 120 SACDs all of these have been RIP'd to SACD.iso and then turned into DSF files for the music server
  • Fair amount of vinyl and most new purchases are vinyl these days. This can be a mixed bag depending on the release and where it was pressed.
  • No steaming of any kind for music - except the music server
  • Some but not many hi-res downloads.

I have also experimented with vinyl ripping with my Linn exact system. Works very well and I end up with 24/192 files that I store as WAVs. Storage is cheap so I do not care about compression formats.

I have to say I am generally very happy with my vinyl playback setup and it keeps me purchasing more titles. 

Recently have been curating my CD catalog with a goal to thin out titles I have only listened to a few times.