Music for 2022- Is It Just Me Or?..

@baylinor 

So it sounds as if you’ve moved in the direction of streaming- have you found equipment that satisfies you equally to your vinyl setup? Close to or just livable?

@designsfx 

Check my house of stereo system. It includes vinyl, CDs and streaming. The three systems have a slightly different presentation but there is no way I can say I prefer one over another. Streaming actually offers a wider soundstage on most recordings. The key is to be able to have a setup that allows you to control the low frequencies, i.e. subwoofers. Streaming in my room requires a little more toned down low frequencies than CDs or specially vinyl. My vinyl rig cost three times the cost of my streaming rig and twice my CD rig. So in my experience streaming is the future and folks on this site eventually talked me into it even so I used to say I would never do it as I liked tangible media too much. So glad I kept an open mind since a totally new world of musical discoveries has opened to me.

stereo5

I am looking forward in reading about your impressions and thoughts on the Animals SACD. I, too, have multiple copies on CD.

Happy Listening!

I can’t get into the new stuff. I’m still mining record shops for old cds to rip to my nas and used lps. I’m so downloading much more that I ever have. There’s still lots of old gems just waiting to be explore….I stay excited about that and the hunt. Streaming on the other hand isn’t doing it for me right now. Maybe the next phase. 

So Far this year I've purchased 3 albums (CD) and a 13 CD box set Of Jean Ferrat's work (1961-1979)..

I have the Ferrat collection (plus more) on LP, but wanted it on CD for the convenience.

The last purchase was "A Meeting by the River" Cooder/Bhatt released in 1993.

The Cooder album came from a link/referral I read in these forums and it was puchased and on its way within an hour of reading the post.

I listen to new music on YT, but rarely come across anything I wish to own.

However, I do find older music that I missed along the way.

My time frame (poplar music) ranges from the 1930's through to the mid 1980's, or so.

A wider range than what bigtwin mentions, but then I do seem to pretty much stop in the 80's.

I was 30 years old in 1985 so I do think that he's onto something.

DeKay