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In Reply to: RE: And in the same issue, both Fremer and Reichert . . . posted by Brian H P on November 15, 2021 at 12:57:32
Brian,
I am coming at this from the opposite direction. I have several thousand LPs and roughly 400 CDs. Until recently my listening has been almost exclusively to vinyl; I only put on a CD when I didn't have that music on vinyl. However, after some arm twisting I gave in and bought an inexpensive streamer and signed up for Amazon Music HD. Now I find myself listening via streaming a lot of the time probably more than half. The reason is simple: I am exploring music I had never heard before.
Two examples:
1. Each month when I read Stereophile or TAS, I circle references to music that a reviewer is recommending. Then I listen to them via streaming and if I really like the music I order the CD or LP.
2. At the 2021 Capital Audio Fest I heard some music that I liked either for sonic quality or for musical interest. Again I made a note of the selections, listened to them at home via streaming and have now ordered a couple of them in LP form.
In my case, LPs still sound the best sometimes startlingly so. CDs, however, still sound very good and I really don't mind listening to them at all. Streaming with my setup doesn't sound quite as good as the CD but it still sounds very good. The point is I am able to enjoy the music with each medium very much, but streaming opens the door to an incredible wealth of music that I simply wouldn't hear otherwise.
Follow Ups:
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The Mind has No Firewall~ U.S. Army War College.
A single inexpensive streamer like yours, and a subscription to only one music provider, would not be near as bad as the kind of complicated glitchy networks of multiple boxes so favored by SVS and other critics. If its just for discovering new music, I wouldn't need to obsess about sampling rate, bit rate, reconstruction filter type, and so on, the way those guys do.
But maybe I'm just a Luddite. I understand speakers well (been building them for 30+ years), and the basics of analog amplification. I truly don't know the difference between a hidme and an usbee and a spidiff and a wifi (a faithful wife?) and a bluetooth, and don't particularly care to learn.
Damn kids get offa my lawn!
Brian, on Audio by VanAlStine, Frank VanAlStine has a page on a tune up and modification to the AR turntable. It's in his olderAudio Basics newsletter which is on his website.I modded 2 of them and it's real easy and fun. That was 1983. It's a must read anyway for an ardent AR man as yourself. If you can't find it I'll do my best to find it for you...Mark
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