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In Reply to: Music aficionados? posted by Sordidman on October 17, 2006 at 09:28:27:
"All liner notes and such information is VASTLY limited and inferior than calling up a Google window...."...which frequently links you to the nonsense that self-styled I-have-a-platform-on-the-Internet gurus _think_ they know about music.
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Most information on the internet (like most "history" on the history channel)is circular in nature; that is, it goes around and comes around from so many directions, all regurgitating what they've learned from the same sources, that it tends to corroborate and distill the essentials into canned "bite-sized" segments. In music, many of those original sources just happen to have been the liner notes on LP's.
any change is a loss for someone. The public, particularly the young public, has spoken and it is now pretty clear that silver discs, whatever flavor, will follow black vinyl ones in their move towards "niche-dom". The format of choice now the hard drive and quite frankly, I am puzzled as to why more high-end manufacturers have not embraced it as yet. Hard drives lack many of the jitter problems that plague CD/DVD transports and although most downloaded music today is compressed, there is no particular reason that it has to be.My teenage kids prefer to listen to music on their cell phones despite the fact that they have access to a very nice system downstairs. Together they own a grand total of seven CD's. All the rest of their music is downloaded. A certain percentage of kids like them will become audiophiles. When they do, they will collect music the way they always have. They will legally download high resolution, uncompressed music from their favorite site and listen to it on a hard drive specially constructed for high audio quality. It will sound every bit as good as the music we listen to on SACD/DVD-A - maybe better. A second hard drive and maybe a third hard drive will serve as a backup and archive. The system itself will probably have mirrored drives for data redundancy.
Sordidman is right. The web provides far more information about an artist than the PR blurbs on the album cover and album art went the way of the buggy whip when they miniturized it to fit on the front of a CD. The new generation of audiophiles will continue to regard old farts like myself that like to accumulate plastic discs (both silver and black) with an amused tolerance.
how crazy is that???So much better.......
With your feet on the air and your head on the ground, try this trick and spin it, your head'll collapse if there's nothing in it then you'll ask yourself, where is my mind?
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