What am I missing?
When discussing streaming we often hear the quality achieved by streaming compared to "cd quality". "Cd quality" seems often to be the standard by which streaming is favorably compared while cds have at the same widely fallen into disfavor as a medium. If "cd quality" continues to be a quality standard by which we judge streaming services -which it appears to be- why exactly do we hold cds in such disfavor? More sophisticated dacs can always be employed with cd transports as they are with streaming. I understand the convenience and storage issues with cds but I also understand that with streaming you will never own the music which you do with cds. This becomes even more unclear to me when considering the resurgence of vinyl and the storage and convenience issues involved with this medium. I don't believe the music industry ever wanted us to own the music we listen to but rather preferred we only rent and pay for that music each time.
Terrabyte drives have become dirt cheap. Load from the source of your preference, with the means of choice. Save the vid/images/lyrics of same with same. Next itteration of means/media, transfer. Soon enough, you can 'go to the concert, pick where 'at' it you want, and how you hear it'. Our era is fading away, as is always the case. Live the future, live with it...or stay put where you choose. I prefer to pursue, in the method and means of my choice and costs. Same deal, different day.... ;) |
@snilf ...be happy he's listening....and 'junk' is subject to taste & budget.... Better 180 g. lp's than a gram or so of the 'alternative alternatives.'....although there's that when stuck into a micro-manse'.... ;) 'Better' is so wrapped up in preference that it becomes almost preaching to the choir (esp. here ) when one wants to debate that into the same degree of oblivion... One listens to what one prefers. You are what you eat, even if it's through your ears.... ;) Embrace son-in-law...he's young. That, in itself, makes a huge diff in this era of earbuds and 'questionable electro-devices' that deliver it into ones' head. Irrational is a POV. You've yours, I've Mine. I can argue you into a corner over it. And so WTF is the end game for you and me. Gift him with what you feel is the 'better alt' is my suggestion...he's family now, has the attention of your dau, so...better to try to love 'im than the alt, Right? ...unless you just Have to be the Grinch...😏 |
Case in point: You will never be able to Not make me enjoy this.... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XF177Aj59C8&list=RDMMbhQRS6iy23w&index=25 (...the ’long lunar note’ has been known to blow breakers....That, in itself, amuses me.....) |
