... It's already underway with a 25 euro Asus USB dvd player:
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I still buy them!
Same here, although the limited capacity of the Sonos kit causes me problems these days.
We have an occasional trawl through the local charity shops, where I can often find CDs of interest for 10p each. I rarely buy a CD at full price, preferring to wait until it comes down quite a bit.
Having said that, I find many ‘pop’ CDs only have one or two tracks of interest, so occasionally buy single tracks on MP3.
What’s a CD?
I hang on to my old vinyl, without owning a player, in the off chance that they may be worth something some day. I am still bitter that mama sold my star wars toys at a garage sale.
If I ran across some free or dirt cheap vinyl, then I might pick it up just to add to retirement investment portfolio.
As far as CDs vs streaming services, I will say that I am annoyed that Amazon, not sure who else, seems to drop tracks, possibly even record labels, for artists I like. It most certainly doesn’t cover all of the different music and have/had with my old CDs. That doesn’t mean I’ll start buying CDs, but I have considering buying digital music instead of, or in addition to just using a streaming service.
There also is the chance that future tech could allow for independent artist to have a viable avenue to bring digital music to consumers without going through a streaming service, or even physical media...no middle man between artist and consumer. That would solve distribution, but do nothing for marketing however, so couldn’t be an entire solution.
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Hooking up a reel to reel to a Sonos system would be totally badass :-P
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Just got an ad from Crutchfield.com for their “Record Store Day” celebration and it was a good reminder of all the “fun” vinyl used to be.
https://www.crutchfield.com/m_358450/Turntables-Accessories.html
Many folks looking at vinyl have no clue about properly setting up a turntable or maintaining their albums, this isn’t the worst place to start looking. These two or similar at least.
Alignment: https://www.crutchfield.com/p_252ALINDS2/Pro-Ject-Align-it-DS2.html?tp=71638
Stylus Weight: https://www.crutchfield.com/p_252MSRITE/Pro-Ject-Measure-it-E.html?tp=71638
Purchased simply for decorative purposes then? Or to offer a firm level surface for rolling … er … cigarettes?
Wall art for a retro themed place, I imagine. I can think of better things to use to do the other stuff:-)
Vinyl, as already mentioned here, does however offer more engagement with the listening to it, with all the visible engineering to use and see. CDPs do not, and hence there is little chance of them coming back to the extent turntables have. And since they are just a medium for playing digital music, there isn't even an arguable case for better sound quality of the same files played via a NAS/wireless play.
Reel to reel tape - I remember lusting for an elaborate Sony deck in the early seventies! When 7.5 inches per second was the analogy of today’s lossless to the “lossy” obtained from 3.75 inches. I don’t remember any double blind tests that established audible superiority at home from the faster running tape. Of course, with no Google, it wasn't easy to get hold of any writing on the subject.
The Spotify interface on Sonos is a glaring example of this. Tidal is better in this respect.
Why do you not use the native Spotify app instead? Very convenient to use on both Echo and Sonos via target speaker/group selection.
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You find a few things on CD that aren’t on streaming so having the ability to rip one is handy.
You can also have great fun at used music stores and pawnshops digging in the piles of old music and then walk away paying a buck or two per CD.
A number of them also have vinyl if that is your bent. Either played directly or converted to digital.
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