Comments on Profile Post by westermac

Qobuz is launching in the US any day, now. They offer some fancy tiers of streaming quality.

But also the more rewarding your good recordings are.

@AdvanTech Thanks, I'll check that out. Tried Tidal out for a bit but the selection wasn't to great (plus at the price it made more sense to just buy CDs and actually own them)

@purr1n That's definitely true, I just don't have that quite sorted out yet. I've been streaming for years now and stopped buying CD's in the meantime time, and now I'm spoilt for choice. It's pretty fun going back to some old music and hearing it so much more clearly than before though...

Also CDs are crazy cheap now at thrift shops (about $0.99 a disc). Also Discogs is a great place to find stuff.

Between the turntable and re-discovering the cd player as turntable I haven't used jriver in months.

I like Play Music for listening to music on my phone while exercising or cleaning the house, but I can't use it on my desktop rig, it's too obviously compressed. For that, vinyl or FLAC via fb2k are great. I don't have enough CDs to justify a transport yet.

I buy a lot of CD's and FLAC downloads. I rip the CD's to FLAC. My lifestyle is not conducive to maintaining a physical CD collection and I'm happy with the setup. Oh and I also use Apple Music for discovery and for family.

and in case you haven't, check your local library for CD's. mine has been a treasure trove for music discovery since acquiring a cheap but solid Onkyo transport to feed the Gungnir Multibit.

Try Spotify premium I use it daily for 90% of my listening and I rarely found it compressed sounding. If a recording sounds bad, I figure it’s the master. CD rips or lossless or even better feeding your dac with quality cd transport ford give your music a more smooth analog experience, but personally, for me that is, I don’t find Spotify completely unlistenable like most people here.