BenSA wrote:

The big drawback of CD's, mainly when using a B&O Cd player, is the replacement of the lasers. I would play a lot more CD's if replacement lasers were easy to buy and replace. This is where streaming has a big advantage over CD's. 

 I agree, however, I am somewhere in between. I do have physical media still, have my own music server and use streaming for non essential listening.

I am on my 3 server... not because it dyed, but because the OS is no longer updated. Not exactly a money saving solution...
I hate streaming... missing songs bug me endlessly and the 'playing' devices needs updating all the time as well.

Having to replace a laser once every 20 yrs is not that big a deal considering  all of this...

Geoff Martin wrote:

Research indicates that the carbon footprint of a CD is lower than that of streaming if you've streamed the album more than 27 times

Millemissen wrote:

No, you are definitely not ‘weird’

HI Trackbeo,

I'm looking for the PDF - I downloaded it when it came out - but I couldn't find it this morning. Maybe I'll have better luck over the weekend.

Thanks for the pointer to the Devine book - looks interesting.

As for the YouTube video you mention - I think that's one of the better things to do on a football pitch. A bunch of "adults" running around chasing after a ball never made any sense to me - any more than any other sport. Makes even less sense to me why people watch other people do it.

Cheers
-geoff

I'm finding this thread very interesting, particularly as I am in the process of changing from Masterlink to Netlink products, hence being steered more toward online/streaming music.

I'm impressed by the availability of streamed music of any gendre, however I do miss the 'one button operation' of my Beosound 9000.... ie just press 'CD' on the Bed 4, as opposed to starting up the iPad, selecting the app, browsing through the seemingly infinite number of playlists, etc etc.

For deep listening, cd wins hands down. For background/ambient listening streaming is perhaps preferable.

Just my 2c, thanks for reading!

Julian

JulianJ wrote:

however I do miss the 'one button operation' of my Beosound 9000.... ie just press 'CD' on the Bed 4, as opposed to starting up the iPad, selecting the app, browsing through the seemingly infinite number of playlists, etc etc.

For 'one button' operation I still use my BC9500's tape player.  The advantage over CD is that it doesn't have to be Track 1 that comes on when I press a single button (A.MEM) on the remote.

That's what I was looking for. with a NL/ML Converter it is possible just press one button on a beo4, and the music, or radio starts.

OlivierC wrote:

…Would it be an option for B&O to consider a BS Ouverture / 9000 as the next Recreated Limited Edition?

Regards.

Olivier