It is 5:30am on a Saturday , I've been listening to Bill Laswell's "Axiom Ambient . Lost in the Translation". Seemingly that is what my post is about, I've been on an upgrade kick for the past year, not changing to much except for the digital front end and my amplifier to get some more grunt from my Gallo Ref 3.5s. The Daphile Linux operating system hooked up to my DAC lets me up sample PCM FLAC files to DSD. It is very interesting, the Aries streamer leaves me in 2016 with a tidal hifi subscription and all the mass market music I could ever want to listen to.
However for the gems of the thousands of recordings I have in my collection, none are available or will ever be available on the streaming services. Now dead record labels, and or musicians who have died and set up Indy contracts or at least had their music pressed to CD or even vinyl, there is so much damn more music out there that these streaming services will never have. There are ways to find out what is good out there, I am not sure that any real lover of art can just deal with only music streaming services.
How much will be lost in this translation to music services? It reminds me of electronic books, just not the same, nor will it ever be.
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Topic - Lost in the translation... - bullethead 02:47:22 08/20/16 (25)
- RE: Lost in the translation... - daleda 13:41:35 08/22/16 (1)
- :) - bullethead 15:03:08 08/22/16 (0)
- every transition - slapshot 09:59:54 08/21/16 (2)
- I refuse to get into digital downloads- and that is because...? nt - oldmkvi 10:33:22 08/21/16 (1)
- RE: I refuse to get into digital downloads- and that is because...? nt - slapshot 11:28:02 08/21/16 (0)
- That's why I'm still working on getting the best out of red book and vinyl. - Jonesy 06:59:37 08/21/16 (1)
- ^^^^^ what he said. ditto. nt - Smelly_Socks 10:17:02 08/21/16 (0)
- RE: Lost in the translation... - Green Lantern 20:17:22 08/20/16 (0)
- You need the material... - musetap 10:02:48 08/20/16 (3)
- "Screw "convenience" - E-Stat 09:02:52 08/21/16 (0)
- Well said - Quint 12:16:41 08/20/16 (1)
- Same for me---NT - lancelot 13:17:56 08/20/16 (0)
- Do you really sit That close to the speakers? nt - oldmkvi 07:09:46 08/20/16 (0)
- RE: Lost in the translation... - rrob 07:03:07 08/20/16 (6)
- I believe it is more sinister than that - bullethead 07:05:31 08/20/16 (5)
- RE: I believe it is more sinister than that - Tweaker456 08:03:23 08/20/16 (0)
- RE: I believe it is more sinister than that - rrob 07:16:54 08/20/16 (2)
- RE: I believe it is more sinister than that - bullethead 07:26:06 08/20/16 (1)
- RE: I believe it is more sinister than that - rrob 07:34:53 08/20/16 (0)
- Foothill College Radio Station Motto: "Listen and Obey....!" nt - oldmkvi 07:11:26 08/20/16 (0)
- RE: Lost in the translation... - fantja 06:38:37 08/20/16 (3)
- RE: Lost in the translation... - bullethead 06:54:29 08/20/16 (2)
- My approach - E-Stat 09:06:42 08/20/16 (0)
- As long as it's not on while listening- - oldmkvi 07:13:59 08/20/16 (0)
- Good observation...probably lots...//nt - MaxwellP 05:47:27 08/20/16 (0)