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RE: 2015: The Year of Streaming - The death of physical media & downloads?


We're been sacrificing quality for convenience and we'll continue to do so until we're perished.

I don't look at it that way. We have a lot more choice today than we did even a few short years ago. For the audiophile niche we have more high quality download sites then ever before AND we have more high quality streaming services. All of this in just the past two or three years.

Before the CD quality streaming services came online there were only low bit-rate services and some were fine for background music or listening in the car. But now we have services that are streaming true CD quality which we didn't have just a short year or two ago.

The sky is not falling for audiophiles! However, the chart does show the general trend in the mass market.


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