Where do you get your music from?

[piolaxo]

In my case, it's mostly through a local record store, Amazon for the more obscured
offerings and HDTracks for remastered/hi-res albums.

[Questortapes74]

Originally Posted by Questortapes74

I am still 100% (SA)CD. I purchase mainly from Amazon at this moment in the timeline and from bandcamp with the obscure artists. If I buy used, only from a physical shop in which I can inspect my purchase. With used media, it is easy to get burned. I purchased the below CD used several years ago intentionally as something was amiss...

Remember buyer beware with used media. I generally know what I am wanting prior to a purchase and tend to execute accordingly. In the case above, I was curious and knew that this particular title was not in the above stated format. Nevertheless, it is a great example of getting burned. Inspect your purchase whenever possible.

Regards

[Kal Rubinson]

Downloads. I get the discs and rip them only if a download is not available.

[Humbuster]

These days mostly Amazon, Deep Discount and Bull Moose.

[radio times]

Local oxfam/thrift shops, amazon. Cd's all the way, since I lost my passion for in ears/headphones. Mind you I still like my mp3 player with amp from time to time, and it still sounds great, just don't need to add downloads to 'em. Variety was the spice of life in my download years.

[Still-One]

Over the last couple of years I have switched from 95% Amazon and 5% downloads to 95% Tidal added to my Roon library with the remaining 5% split between Amazon and downloads.

This has reduced the clutter of CD's and culling my music library significantly.

[Beet Farmer]

Originally Posted by antipop

Has anyone compared Qobuz to tidal for hi-res? How does it compare to dsd?

There is a comparison done at SoundStage Simplifi in an article by Gordon Brockhouse called "High Res Streaming: Tidal VS. Qobuz" with included MQA discussion vs Flac on the two types of streaming services.
Google the words: "High Res Streaming: Tidal VS. Qobuz" and the article (at least in my browser is the fifth one down the list.
(Sorry I cannot post a link, per rules)
Very interesting and detailed actual comparison from an interested And to my eyes unbiased, user.
No discussion comparing DSD though. (I have to say my Marantz SA-10 does wonderful job on CD to DSD decoding)

I found this via a post from James Tanner of Bryston. So credit is his.

As for where I get music? I have stopped buying music, and am actually culling my LP and CD collections. Weeding the junk out.
Sadly I am a creature of habit. I LIKE the stuff I have, and really do not seek out new music at all at this time. MY last big enlargement of my musical sphere was late 1990's when I finally became interested in Jazz (all due to The DVD series Ken Burns Jazz) and I acquired thousands of albums in both CD an LP format. Almost all locally from a really great used record store

[cma29]

I buy 100% physical media...

Preferred vendors are:

• Presto Classical out of the UK
• Music Direct
• Amazon
• CD Japan (for Japanese SACD releases)

[Toccata]

CDs/SACDs: Amazon and Presto Classical for the most part.
Hi res files: HDTracks, ProStudioMasters, Presto Classical, and E-Classical.
LPs: Amazon and Discogs

I occasionally purchase all three from independent labels.

[bart]

Originally Posted by Beet Farmer

There is a comparison done at SoundStage Simplifi in an article by Gordon Brockhouse called "High Res Streaming: Tidal VS. Qobuz" with included MQA discussion vs Flac on the two types of streaming services.
Google the words: "High Res Streaming: Tidal VS. Qobuz" and the article (at least in my browser is the fifth one down the list.
(Sorry I cannot post a link, per rules)
Very interesting and detailed actual comparison from an interested And to my eyes unbiased, user.
No discussion comparing DSD though. (I have to say my Marantz SA-10 does wonderful job on CD to DSD decoding)

I found this via a post from James Tanner of Bryston. So credit is his.

As for where I get music? I have stopped buying music, and am actually culling my LP and CD collections. Weeding the junk out.
Sadly I am a creature of habit. I LIKE the stuff I have, and really do not seek out new music at all at this time. MY last big enlargement of my musical sphere was late 1990's when I finally became interested in Jazz (all due to The DVD series Ken Burns Jazz) and I acquired thousands of albums in both CD an LP format. Almost all locally from a really great used record store

Good review!
Thank you for posting.

I don't think a link is forbidden, there is no commercial interest.

https://www.soundstagesimplifi.com/i...tidal-vs-qobuz