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I love the ease of streaming music and set my entire house up with a Sonos wireless system. Even the entryway has sound now. Walk into any room and the music follows and seamlessly flows along with me everywhere, even outdoors. Operates from an app on my phone so complete control is always with me. I even listen to the pinball podcasts this way and can multitask while moving about my entire home.
I've been giving my CD collection away to friends and family and I sold my Rockola 100 CD Jukebox.
I just don't have the sophisticated ear that many of you do and I like the simplicity of operation I get from streaming music. I listen to music as background while working, socializing or working on a game. Under those circumstances I don't think I could tell if the music was from vinyl, MP3, CD or streamed. Not unless I stopped and really concentrated on what I was listening to and that would be a distraction to me. Nor would I really care what format it was in as long as its familiar and enjoyable to me.
My CD collection has sat mostly unused for several years now and with this Sonos system, I don't see myself going back. In fact, I'm listening to more music, more often these days then ever before. Right now I'm using Pandora for free and I'm being encouraged by friends to try Spotify. I already have Sirius XM for my car and I'm told that for another 5 bucks a month I can run it through my home system.
It's simple and easy. I find a station I like, let it play randomly and I'm a happy guy until another station might please me.
I'll probably keep some of my CD's for nostalgic reasons but that's about it.
Quoted from Cycloneman:todays music is horrible and the sad part is todays singers are getting paid record amounts of money for songs that are no where near as good as the older singers-groups-songs
In loving tribute to my father and the parents of every generation, past and future.
Quoted from westofrome:Here's an interesting test to see if you can tell the difference between 1411K, 320K, and 160K encodes of the same music. FWIW, it also says you can up Spotify to 320 on the desktop.
https://www.theverge.com/2017/4/5/15168340/lossless-audio-music-compression-test-spotify-hi-fi-tidal
No surprise that I was 0-3 on the test. Like I said before, I just don't have that sophisticated of an ear especially when it's mostly background music for me. I will admit I'm a bit envious of you guys that can detect the sound of groupie panties hitting the floor from the tour bus outside the studio.
Quoted from vid1900:You would need a good set of headphones, a quiet room, and driver software to bypass windows native sound driver.
I get what you're saying, but as a casual listener, you just made my point of what extremes I don't want to go to.
Quoted from vid1900:When the apocalypse comes, everyone who did not buy all their music on vinyl media is going to be sad.
Quoted from westofrome:Alternatively if you don't care that much about music or TV/movies you can buy a digital antenna and watch hi def OTA for free
Just last week I bought a new HDTV antenna for a lady friend down on her luck. Hooked it up to the smart TV I also gave her and we watched as the available channels were programmed in automatically. She now has 97 channels to choose from all for free.
I didn't hang out but the picture looked great.
Quoted from gearheaddropping:Now that I am in search for 8-tracks, the prices are starting to shoot up.
You might consider running a WTB ad in your area. Just for grins, I searched for 8 Track on CL and found this ad here in Denver.
One man's trash is another man's treasure.
Quoted from fosaisu:CL is pretty boring since they dropped the personal ads, eh?
A search for CD didn't alway returned music stuff.
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