I Sold my CD Player!!! Streaming sounds so incredible!!!

My mistake. I thought you said you owned all the music you needed. You can find new music on those sources, but if you give it a try, I think you’ll find that streaming is a much better way to find and listen to new music. To each his own, though.

In relation to impacting negatively on the Environment, Vinyl LP, CD and Streaming are without doubt presenting differences and some of which there should be careful considerations prior to making Purchases that come from production being created today.

The Crux of the overall issue is consumption and Music Produced to be Recorded on Vinyl and CD were as a Sale Item, never in their history going to generate the volume of Hires that the Streaming Industries are able to generate.

Additionally for the streaming industries to be a viable operation and afforded as a Hired Service by the multiples that use them, there has to be substantial range of Space available to be Hired covering a multitude of interests to the Hirers.

Data Centres are the Industrial Structures to enable Substantial Storage of content to be hired and the Streaming of the varieties of content to be sent from. 

As a result of a Growth of consumers over a relatively short timeline, Data Centres have been abandoned to be superseded by Structures that are now of such a footprint they are able to be seen from space.

Building the Structures is one Negative Impact on the Environment, not repurposing and abandoning the Structures for New Structures after very short usage periods, has further impaction.

 https://www.analyticsvidhya.com/blog/2020/09/largest-data-centers-world/

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_center

Streamed Music from a Hire Service, used as a means of one entertaining themselves, to be a cost effective Hire Service, must have attachments to other services available from the Data Centre Source.

Everybody to day with the Knowledge they now have, there is no longer ignorance able to be pleaded, if one smokes they know the risks. In relation to producing C02, each individual is well versed on how to make a conscientious effort to reduce their overall impact. The idea that being amused is the subject, maybe obscures ones thoughts on what might be a betterment as an the alternative method for ones choices made for amusing themselves?                

I don’t know how to evaluate the environmental impact of the competing technologies. Yes, physical media has to be disposed of in some fashion, and may end up in a landfill. However if someone listens to their physical media repeatedly having amassed a large amount, they may not consume as much electricity going forward as someone who relies upon streaming.

Or the employment issue. LP and CD pressing plants employ, or used to employ, individuals. Then there are those who were employed in the distribution chain, and finally the shops. Streaming services don’t require much employment; I subscribe to one boutique service that has 2 full time employees. I would not include the people employed by ISP , because I suspect most of them would still have jobs if music streaming services were to disappear.

@fpomposo not sure what is wrong but there should be little or no discernable difference between your ripped and streamed sourcefiles.  Indeed you need a  high quality hard wired input to your streamer.  but my streamed music quickly revealed weakneses in my CD playing system and I had to upgrade my transport.  

Maybe you are happy the way you are doing it and that is fine, just thought I'd point this out in case you want to work on it.

Jerry

@carlsbad2 not sure what your getting at but your statement that there should be no discernable difference between local ripped files and streamed is incorrect.

When I listen to a CD at WAV resolution it’s anywhere from 500 to 800 megabytes of data, if you stream the same album it is going through lots of compression algorithms and you are downloading maybe 50 to 80 megabytes.

My local source file is traveling from the SSD hard drive in my Aurender a few inches to the USB output then to my DAC, when you stream a album it is going from a server farm somewhere in the world through thousands of miles of fiber and copper lines through multiple computers and devices in the chain of your ISP, then to your modem, then to your router, then another run of patch cord coppper cable and heavily compressed and decompressed many times along the way.

Proclaiming that they should have no discernable difference doesn’t make it so, it’s very very obvious by using the ear test that uncompressed local files are superior to Qobuz streamed music, and I will admit Qobuz sounds pretty good but not even close to local files on the HDD.

I recommend you get a streamer with onboard hard drive and hear for yourself , I love my Aurender but there are others that have onboard storage.

PS - My Aurender is hard wired, Aurender doesn’t even have Wi-Fi you can only hard wire it and I use a high quality shielded Cat7 patch cord to go to the double isolated LAN port on the Aurender. I do plan to get a audiophile network switch at some point and maybe try a audiophile expensive patch cord, but I haven’t spent the money on that just yet.