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I can't play a recording all the way through

So when does this end? I've got a new system, a lot of new music from DSD to FLAC to favorite old mp3s. So my problem is that I'm trying to both enjoy the new system yet, giddy as a schoolboy, listen for the quality differences. It's been three weeks and I just keep bouncing all over my library. 
I have learned that there is absolutely a difference in the very high DSD recordings. Less noise, more separation and more immediate sound. Also was impressed by the very high 320mhz mp3s. Not in the same sense as the DSD or FLAC but for the portion of my library that will never be HD, not bad. 

iclickjohn
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ehtoo
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Ah, the affliction of the young. Also perhaps an indictment of the new singles driven music scene. 

Have you ever seen a kid on Christmas morning who has found too many toys under the tree. They flit from one to the other never spending time with any one particular toy. When I was young, we'd get a single toy and the rest were practical items (clothes etc.) and we played with that toy and loved it all the time. I still have some of them 50 years on as I view them with great affection.

One the one hand, the availability of music today is astounding but, the smorgasbord of music out there has killed focus and the love of music in general. When you have that much, nothing is special and definitely so when you're talking downloads - music has become ephemeral. A throwaway commodity to be consumed while doing something else. Others are spot on here. Find a few recordings and obsess about them before moving to the next. You may find with time, you learn to love music. That's why I prefer LP's. Their physical nature demands that you sit and listen.
iclickjohn OP
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Lol, OP here. 
True. I'm a very young 60.
True. I really really do love my music new and old.
True. With this new system I am hearing the music "that I really really love" better than I've ever heard it before. 
True. I want to hear my entire collection at once. 
I think that is my problem. So once I get all the way through sampling the few hundred songs /albums once, my curse will be over and I can just play for the music again. And I hope it doesn't take me 15 years. I would like to enjoy them before I'm 75. 
JM

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ehtoo
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LOL!!! It's always dangerous to assume isn't it. I've heard your comments from a few twenty somethings and I leapt to....well you know.  In a way, I have the same problem but with LP's which now number in excess of 20,000. Picking my daily records for listening is daunting. Sobering is the thought I'll never hear all of them once again in the number of years I have left (63 yrs young).
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bdp24
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Approaching, reaching, and then passing a certain landmark age, I recently set about weeded my music library on both LP and CD, getting rid of anything I viewed as non-essential. Check Amoeba Records on Sunset Blvd. in Hollywood for my roughly 1000 LP’s and 3000 CD’s of 1950’s-1990’s Rockabililly, R & R, Blues, R & B, Swing, Jazz, Hillbilly, Bluegrass, Country, Singer-Songwriter, Pop, and Punk music I decided I could live another 10-15 years (about the time I reckin’ I have left) without being able to hear again on demand.

My thinking is that with the rapidly evaporating time I have left left, I want to hear as much as-yet-unheard music, along with long-time favorites, as that time allows. I have hundreds of LP’s still waiting for their maiden voyage on the ol’ Rock/Zeta/London, and many times that on CD. J.S. Bach recordings alone will take me a few years to listen to, even at only one spin each. Spend your time wisely, youngins’; the end will be here before you know it!

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oregonpapa
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^^^ Yep, its kind of a rude awakening when one realizes that he/she has a lot less time looking forward than the time that was spent looking backward.  As for me, I'm not only in the final glide path, I'm running out of runway. :-)

Like you, bdp24, there is no way I could start listening to all of my LP's and CD's and ever get finished before I reached the end.  

As for advise to the "youngins:"  Keep in touch with your parents and grand parents. Always treat them with respect. Make sure they are cared for. So many of them will not tell you if they are in need. Always remember ... discipline weighs ounces ... regret weighs tons.

With that said, I'm going to Amoeba on Sunset to look for bdp's records. You never know, I might find a gem or two in there. *lol*

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