j0hnbarker wrote:

I just choose to take pleasure in handling physical media such as LPs, books, etc., and I find storing music on a hard-drive soulless and devoid of any pleasure whatsoever.

 

I totally agree🤒

Electrified wrote:

Claiming that people listento cd's because the quality is better is nonsensical as you can rip a bit-perfect copy. The same goes for "listeneing to albums from one end to another" and so on, because that's possible too.

If people prefer to listen to vinyl because they like the rituals associated with it, that's fine with me, I will just disagree when that sort of people claim that the audio quality is better, that there are more dynamic range with vinyl and other such nonsensical claims.

 

CD's are better quality for me because I don't have the space to store bit-perfect copies of everything on each of my devices and likewise Spotify files are compressed so there is a modest but clearly noticeable difference with a  CD.

"Listening to one end of an album to another" is an interesting point. While it is possible to to that with Digital music it is all too easy to fail to give the music a chance and find youself flicking from one thing to another. When listening to vinyl (and to some extent Cd's) listening to the whole thing is much more part of the process and an album can become more than a collection of tracks.

The vinyl better/worse than CD's debate has been done to death but on my equipment I find vinyl 'warmer sounding' than CD's.

When all is said and done people prefer what they prefer and are entitled to have their reasons (practical or emotional) wihout having them dismissed as nonsensical. This isn't an audiophile forum because, as Peter said on here a few weeks ago, it's not just about what your equipment does, it's about how it makes you feel.

Simon

Odd88 wrote:

j0hnbarker wrote:

I just choose to take pleasure in handling physical media such as LPs, books, etc., and I find storing music on a hard-drive soulless and devoid of any pleasure whatsoever.

 

I totally agree🤒

Me too :)

In the long-run, manufacturers/ technologies dictate how we listen to music. You can only resist for so long!

I hate electronic book readers and will always prefer to handle and read a book by turning those paper pages. However, at some point in the future the printing of books (and newspapers) will simply become uneconomic in comparison with the electronic equivalents, and they will become an expensive rarity.

Enjoy handling and playing those CDs and vinyl LPs while you can!

Graham

Convenience 

I would like to see you carry your system around to listen to it😁

<>Playlists - you can create perfect music compilations for any occasion ahead of the event, especially good for dinner parties. I suppose you could burn your mp3's onto a CD.

 

 

I ride public transportation an hour to and from work every day. If I didn't have music on my iPhone and earbuds in my ears I'd be forced to listen to the inane ramblings of complete idiots the whole way.

dilznik wrote:

I ride public transportation an hour to and from work every day. If I didn't have music on my iPhone and earbuds in my ears I'd be forced to listen to the inane ramblings of complete idiots the whole way.

If you used a Sony Walkman and a C90 cassette though you'd surely understand where the OP was coming from, wouldn't you?

I have a full digital beoport/mac mini system with a huge amount of music on it.

All music is ripped in full losless from my own cd's. Having the original disks provides me automatically with a backup.
Besides all the advantages of this ( a full cd quality library of music at my fingertips), we still keep around 100 cd's at arms reach.
Usually the newest/most played ones, mostly to listen to the full album.

I also have a turntable to play vinyl.... nothing beats the manual browsing through the vinyl collection, picking one and carefully put the vinyl on the turntable etc... with a warm sound as a reward. Something for intimate occasions. 

 

cooldude wrote:

I also have a turntable to play vinyl.... nothing beats the manual browsing through the vinyl collection, picking one and carefully put the vinyl on the turntable etc... with a warm sound as a reward. Something for intimate occasions. 

 

 

I prefer CD's for intimate occasions - it prevents having to stop what you're doing to change the disc over!👍