I’m a CD guy so I shouldn’t have any problem with digital...and I don’t. Havn’t streamed yet but my kid does and its fine...except for the music itself. I’m not much for pop music unless in the car. At home, it’s classical and other period music, most sonatas, some blues, some folk, some alternatve rock, some classic rock and lastly, some Swedish heavy rock...ah, Sabaton..among others.
I plan to stream shortly and use bluetooth but I still enjoy finding CDs I like. The lastest acquisition is Brahms Complete variations played by Wolfram Schmitt-Leonardy...very, very nice. On a brilliantclassics label import...try finding that streamed.
I don’t do vinyl except to resell to feed the hobby. Equipment used Hegel h160, Focal 807W, Marantz 6006 as transport. Cheap bluray for movies.
Vinyl? If I easily found what I liked, maybe I would, but I’ve no desire. Does it sound better? Not at the volumes I typically play at, which is low to moderate. If I want snap, crackle, pop...I eat cereal. Though, I remember that Hotel California sounded better on vinyl. That could be that I was younger with better hearing, or I romanticize that it did or perhaps it was mixed to sound better on vinyl. If I listed to more classic rock at home, I would seriously consider vinyl.
So, like the above have stated, streaming is fine when traveling, for home if in higher resolution. CDs are generally cheap. Leaving vinyl for those who have deep pockets and hipsters. Part of the fun is physically searching for finds. It’s not an adventure flipping through a website.
Lastly, it’s OK to be an OK Boomer...OK hipster?
Youth, like CDs...here one day, gone the next.
I plan to stream shortly and use bluetooth but I still enjoy finding CDs I like. The lastest acquisition is Brahms Complete variations played by Wolfram Schmitt-Leonardy...very, very nice. On a brilliantclassics label import...try finding that streamed.
I don’t do vinyl except to resell to feed the hobby. Equipment used Hegel h160, Focal 807W, Marantz 6006 as transport. Cheap bluray for movies.
Vinyl? If I easily found what I liked, maybe I would, but I’ve no desire. Does it sound better? Not at the volumes I typically play at, which is low to moderate. If I want snap, crackle, pop...I eat cereal. Though, I remember that Hotel California sounded better on vinyl. That could be that I was younger with better hearing, or I romanticize that it did or perhaps it was mixed to sound better on vinyl. If I listed to more classic rock at home, I would seriously consider vinyl.
So, like the above have stated, streaming is fine when traveling, for home if in higher resolution. CDs are generally cheap. Leaving vinyl for those who have deep pockets and hipsters. Part of the fun is physically searching for finds. It’s not an adventure flipping through a website.
Lastly, it’s OK to be an OK Boomer...OK hipster?
Youth, like CDs...here one day, gone the next.