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Mix the old with the new. 'Tis what I do.

Buy old books used on Amazon, with a prime subscription for those lucky finds.

Drink Beefeater gin instead of going to the citrusy trendy stuff

Dabble here or there with Netflix streaming, but stick with the raw power of UHD discs

Dig back into early to mid-20th century jazz and blues but then kick it with Gary Clark Jr.

Do digital music, but keep it real with quality headphone manufacturers like Sennheiser, Grado, AKG, or so on...do some good speaker companies like Martin Logan, JBL, Focal, Zu Audio

Yeah, I tried smoking pot again for medicinal purposes and ended up hallucinating. Not ALL things new are good.
 
If you had the power to roll it back a few years, give me a date?

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I still had some ****ing hope.
 
Vinal is making a comeback...

Yeah, with mixed tracks containing barely better fidelity than the discs. The loudness war destroys all formats.
 
As long as you live there's still hope, trust me. ;)

Either you're flirting with me or you're trying to be Clarence in It's a Wonderful Life, but I ain't that far gone. :p
 
The opposite of this kind of rapid change...

 
Huh? Of course it's a computer file, it's just stored on optical media.
It's the .wav format fer chrissakes.

Actually, no. CD's are just raw PCM audio with no containers. WAV and AIFF (which is what is often displayed on a Macintosh) are just containers.
 
Huh? Of course it's a computer file, it's just stored on optical media.
It's the .wav format fer chrissakes.

Naturally, I mean not in a solid format like a record, tape or CD. Don't make it stupid.


Either you're flirting with me or you're trying to be Clarence in It's a Wonderful Life, but I ain't that far gone. :p

Flirting with you, huh? Life is good even without the double dutch.
 
I read Best Buy is discontinuing CD's...makes me sad to see them go and I don't know how I'll get my music if they become obsolete...I like paying for something and having it in my hot little hands...downloading is for the birds...

Its for people who dont need a junky house

This many CDs

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Can fit on this

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The damage that tech is having on social norms is only beginning to hit the News sources. Even the tech gurus who helped create Facebook and Twitter are frightened to death for their children of the world they've created.

Wake up and smell the coffee, because the eggs and bacon are burnt.

The thing that I sensed at the time (over the last decade and a half) was that they were way too idealistic about information and the virtues of democracy. They thought combining the two was not only inevitable, but a good for society. The capability to share the world's knowledge like never before seen? Great. Community collaboration, even with the world's wisdom? Good.

They didn't appreciate, I think, what a lot of the world's wisdom actually said about people: be they individuals, small groups, large groups.

A lot of them are now figuring it out that democracy for the sake of democracy doesn't exactly lead to this better evolution of mankind. It may actually harm them, make them dumber, make them vindictive people, isolate them from diverse populations, and so on.
 
Actually, no. CD's are just raw PCM audio with no containers. WAV and AIFF (which is what is often displayed on a Macintosh) are just containers.

True but that is the computer file container they use.
Media uses containers, so it's maybe a wee bit odd to say that CD audio isn't a computer file, when the process of digitization involves a computing device. You can't generate PCM with a Nipkow disk. :lamo
 
Why is analogue preferred over digital by aficionados?

Well, neither of those images are analogue, and the answer will vary depending on the group of folks you talk to.

Some will say that digital is too cold, while analogue is warm (warm is often associated with "musical"--I never quite understood this and I have my own cynical and prejudiced thoughts about the use of the words "warm" along with people who listened to music produced in the 1960s and 1970s). Those same folks may even say analogue is so much better at reproducing the wavelengths that music interacts with, whereas digital cannot--it's kind of finite.

Then others will say this is nonsense. Digital captures everything fine. They may say it's all about the technique and the components used by folks while making the products that you're listening to that matters. They will also point out that your human ear is a lot less capable of hearing things than you or some "purist" thinks. They may even challenge you to blind or double-blind test yourself, because a lot like wine connoisseurs, there's a whole lot of bull**** going on about how sophisticated the tech or the person's ears actually are.
 
The thing that I sensed at the time (over the last decade and a half) was that they were way too idealistic about information and the virtues of democracy. They thought combining the two was not only inevitable, but a good for society. The capability to share the world's knowledge like never before seen? Great. Community collaboration, even with the world's wisdom? Good.

They didn't appreciate, I think, what a lot of the world's wisdom actually said about people: be they individuals, small groups, large groups.

A lot of them are now figuring it out that democracy for the sake of democracy doesn't exactly lead to this better evolution of mankind. It may actually harm them, make them dumber, make them vindictive people, isolate them from diverse populations, and so on.

You do realize the younger generations you are describing are so inane and inept that they may literally not understand your explanation?
 
You do realize the younger generations you are describing are so inane and inept that they may literally not understand your explanation?

Good grief, Grip. The next thing you are going to start doing is yelling at kids to get off your lawn.

This is pretty ageist.
 
better quality

The CD format is a wee bit deficient, in both bit depth and bit rate, and newer digital formats offer better resolution, higher bit rates and bit depth, which brings it much closer to the warmth of good analog.
 
You do realize the younger generations you are describing are so inane and inept that they may literally not understand your explanation?

A lot of them are about my age or maybe even 10-30 years older than I am.
 
Well, neither of those images are analogue, and the answer will vary depending on the group of folks you talk to.

Some will say that digital is too cold, while analogue is warm (warm is often associated with "musical"--I never quite understood this and I have my own cynical and prejudiced thoughts about the use of the words "warm" along with people who listened to music produced in the 1960s and 1970s). Those same folks may even say analogue is so much better at reproducing the wavelengths that music interacts with, whereas digital cannot--it's kind of finite.

Then others will say this is nonsense. Digital captures everything fine. They may say it's all about the technique and the components used by folks while making the products that you're listening to that matters. They will also point out that your human ear is a lot less capable of hearing things than you or some "purist" thinks. They may even challenge you to blind or double-blind test yourself, because a lot like wine connoisseurs, there's a whole lot of bull**** going on about how sophisticated the tech or the person's ears actually are.

You're talking so far above the average millennial, because they have no idea of how to argue the point, since they didn't live through our era of tech. It's come down to taste, discerning ability and quality. Other words like you said, it's all bull**** depending on who you are and what your qualifications are.
 
My handle says it all, I am a recovering analog dinosaur who beat extinction by adapting to the digital world, but on my terms. As others have already remarked, I might source my music via a high quality digital format on the front end but it's going to get played through some rather remarkable tube powered preamps and final amplifiers.
For vinyl I prefer to use 15 ips reel to reel, dub the vinyl over and keep it pristine.
I've been doing that for so many years that I have a fairly good selection, much of which I don't even have the vinyl for any longer.
Yes, I still love my cassettes, too...but I hated 8-track and refused to use it from Day One...never touched it.

As I've gotten older, my hearing is such that I can't pick up on some of the quality issues I used to notice, so for me, a vacuum tube amp seems to warm up CD audio pretty nicely.
As for video, I am thrilled that analog video is dead.
A 4K TV is a wonderful thing to have, the digital video revolution finally made television a quality art form, even though content is often a mixed bag.
 
Its for people who dont need a junky house

This many CDs

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Can fit on this

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By the way, I wouldn't want to compress all of that data onto a mere 200 gb micro sd card. Audio, you would have a better shot at, but once you start throwing video on too....you're just asking for trouble. 1 DVD rip, generally speaking, should be between 700 mb-1.5 gb.
 
Good grief, Grip. The next thing you are going to start doing is yelling at kids to get off your lawn.

This is pretty ageist.

I did and they told me to go fu-myself. When I ask their parents for civility, they said my kids are perfect, so go fu-yourself. Lovely world.
 
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