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Originally Posted by eljr
Nice post, Serge. 
appreciate your perspective. |
Glad to share my findings. Just wanted to add that the biggest thing to consider is the positive aspect of streaming. It is a wonderful revolution that took place and opened up an amazing opportunity to discover as MUCH music as ANYONE is willing to explore and enjoy.
It would simply be next to impossible to duplicate the experience of quality streaming with all the selections with actual physical media. Not financially for most people and certainly would be quite an effort to find all that physical media even if one wanted to spend a fortune on such an endeavor.
One small example. Took me a bit of time but I finally researched and added top 50 saxophone players to Roon folders. All organized the way I wanted them. I now have access to all of their albums. That is way more albums than I have ever owned or would be willing to own and I am only getting started with this Jazz project on my Roon.
I have discovered more music in the few years I have started using Roon/Tidal/Qobuz than my whole life as an audiophile (35 years now)
I will also just say that philosophically speaking, we are merely the custodians of everything we possess... We get to enjoy and hold on to the things for a predetermined amount of time and not a second longer... Can't take it with you. The Egyptians tried, there is no evidence it worked.
When it is my time, my kids won't have to try to figure out what to do with 1000's of CDs and LPs. The carbon footprint of my hobby is in the electricity it takes to keep my computer and gear powered, not producing plastic which will which eventually and inevitably wind up in a dump somewhere...
As it stands today, I see no negatives or shortcomings to streaming at all.
For the argument that some may present of the difference in SQ, give me a break, there are remasters of the remasters of the remastered stuff that was made from a master 40 to 50 years ago with some genres....
The SQ difference between the recordings and albums themselves is by FAR the greatest factor than any trivial differences in the streaming vs physical media itself.
Vinyl? Sure, the analog argument is valid. If you prefer your analog, keep spinning it but keep in mind, each time you do, it only gets worse in SQ due to inevitable wear and tear. A CD? CDs rot! A digital file will outlast any of us and go on indefinitely.
