I'm a superb "getter outer" and a terrible "putter backer".... and considering some of my challenges, that is a mess waiting to happen.
Add to that I'm also a perfectionist with a poor track record, and there's yet another obstacle.
having ALL my music at my fingertips is a really attractive prospect for me, especially if I don't have to keep onto the orgainization of them all.
The sound quality however was the issue for me. I'm also not opposed to investigating something new or different in audio performance. I found over this past year and most recently via the addition of a decent DAC that music files can and do correlate to great sounding events.
I vasilated over whether or not to go all in and sell my Sony xa777 for a good while too. Ultimately I AB'd lots of CDs & files in various formats, with various media players, and with the CD players I had on hand and kept coming up with only marginal diffs overall. Albeit the DAC being the bottleneck or main influence throughout.
consequently, given organizational appeal, readiness, varieity, all being on the upside, I'm going all in now on the magnetic arena. The sole downside I've found thus far is this: "Depth of the sound stage" isn't as deep as it is with disc players in general.
Apart from that lone aspect, the resolution and details are improved upon by and large, tonality is as keen, and imagaing is great. Ambient venue retreval is improved upon more often too.
.... and it sure beats finding and then putting the little silver goobers back up, or even burning compilations time and time again.
So does that mean I'll sell all my discs once ripped and backed up?.. or that I'm 100% done with CDPs?
No. Probably not... not until there is some major breakthrough in Disc player tech.
