WillietheSquid
pfm Member
I buy.
No streaming / rent. Can’t imagine finding time to listen ... and, SQ is quite important to me.
I have a substantial LP library that I’d like to reduce by 75% to save space. The 25% I’d keep would be esoteric / expensive to find on CD ... or never published in CD format. I still enjoy the spinning of LPs, but it’s nostalgia ... good sound, but not consistently great / amazing as ripped from CD and played back through computer.
I have several thousand CDs ... about 60% ripped to lossless on iTunes. I’ve donated about 1/2 of the ripped CDs to the library ... save space at home. The other half I don’t want to give up ... and visually scanning them is faster and more powerful than any computer search protocol.
Playback the redbook downloads through Pure Music, into a Wavelength Crimson DAC for the main system; or a Wavelength Cosecant DAC for the second system.
Most of my onesies / twosies buys are pop / Jazz / or fill-ins from an important but not commercially influential artist. Example: John Fahey: I had the Rhino 2 CD compilation, and two LPs from back in the day ... and last month became interested in greater depth of catelog ... and so searched out and bought five or six various John Fahey CDs, all used.
I’m going to ‘trust’ that Fahey sound recordings will be available by streaming in the future? Or that his steel string guitar sound will ‘come through’ in a streaming format?
The biggest motivator, though, for new CD buys are the astonishing classical box sets from Decca, Philips, DG, Sony, WB, etc. often extremely well remastered, 50 great CD box set for maybe $100 ... great performances, great musicians, own the CDs, often nice books with info in very small print (to fit in my small head) ...
I can’t stop.
The major record companies will stop publishing physical media in the not so distant future ... and these sound recording copyrights will not be so easily found / accessible / quality in the future.
WTS
No streaming / rent. Can’t imagine finding time to listen ... and, SQ is quite important to me.
I have a substantial LP library that I’d like to reduce by 75% to save space. The 25% I’d keep would be esoteric / expensive to find on CD ... or never published in CD format. I still enjoy the spinning of LPs, but it’s nostalgia ... good sound, but not consistently great / amazing as ripped from CD and played back through computer.
I have several thousand CDs ... about 60% ripped to lossless on iTunes. I’ve donated about 1/2 of the ripped CDs to the library ... save space at home. The other half I don’t want to give up ... and visually scanning them is faster and more powerful than any computer search protocol.
Playback the redbook downloads through Pure Music, into a Wavelength Crimson DAC for the main system; or a Wavelength Cosecant DAC for the second system.
Most of my onesies / twosies buys are pop / Jazz / or fill-ins from an important but not commercially influential artist. Example: John Fahey: I had the Rhino 2 CD compilation, and two LPs from back in the day ... and last month became interested in greater depth of catelog ... and so searched out and bought five or six various John Fahey CDs, all used.
I’m going to ‘trust’ that Fahey sound recordings will be available by streaming in the future? Or that his steel string guitar sound will ‘come through’ in a streaming format?
The biggest motivator, though, for new CD buys are the astonishing classical box sets from Decca, Philips, DG, Sony, WB, etc. often extremely well remastered, 50 great CD box set for maybe $100 ... great performances, great musicians, own the CDs, often nice books with info in very small print (to fit in my small head) ...
I can’t stop.
The major record companies will stop publishing physical media in the not so distant future ... and these sound recording copyrights will not be so easily found / accessible / quality in the future.
WTS