at the moment I use a youtube downloader on my phone ,then play back my videos through my ahd2000s and surprisingly some sound amazing on my nokia (my normal player is an old sflo2 with twin wolfsons and a line out to a neco amp with twin opa627 all with lossless music) maybe my ears are losing something with age !
how do you get your music?
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Google Music All Access or whatever they're calling it nowadays. I signed up when it was first announced so I get it for £7.99/month for life. Great service. Seen as the majority of my music listening is on the tube from my phone, it just made sense to sign up to a digital platform. I am an audiophile, but the ease of it makes it worth it.
I'm moving house next week so looking at how to set up Google Cast to my hifi direct rather than using a bluetooth adapter. Once I can get the full 320kbs I'll be a happy bunny.
I'm moving house next week so looking at how to set up Google Cast to my hifi direct rather than using a bluetooth adapter. Once I can get the full 320kbs I'll be a happy bunny.
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Original piracy
We all did it in the 80's though, you got it down to a fine art to miss the DJ/Host talking
But these days I will buy the CD's (mainly from a rain forest place) with the AutoRip or I use Spotify to check out albums I am unsure on.
I used to recorded the start of every song on the radio and stop and rewind the tape for the ones I didn't want.
Now I just create playlists on Youtube.
CDs, Vinyl and if I absolutely have to (because it's not on physical release), digital. But I won't buy digital unless it's lossless. And I won't pay a premium for lossless either. I still use Spotify in my browser, as it's good for finding new stuff through related artists. But I don't pay for it and since I use adblock, I don't get any adverts. Huzzah.
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Genuine question. I'm not knocking it but why do people still buy vinyl?
My recollection of vinyl records was crackling and a deep, bassy sound. Also, my dads mediocre collection still took up a whole closet.
My recollection of vinyl records was crackling and a deep, bassy sound. Also, my dads mediocre collection still took up a whole closet.
People like the sound. And a lot of old vinyl was mastered in the era before the "loudness wars", so sounds much better than stuff remastered for CD and especially low bitrate digital that was put out with early itunes stuff to make music sound good and louder on **** headphones.
Poorly stored records and worn / crap cartridges cause crackle. The bassy sound is what I was talking about above. Vinyl junkies refer to it as "warm".
When I still had my technics, all my jungle, garage, hip hop, and whatever else did as well.
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Ah, could the cheap cartridges be the reason why cheapo home hi-fi's of the time (I'm thinking Goodmans and Alba) sounded like ****?
Alba, that's a name I haven't seen since the 90s
Yes, I had an Alba hifi system and it was terrible. High quality stylus and cartridges you can easily spend £50+ on for a pair for a set of decks. You also need to set the weight properly for turntable arms. It is effectively a pin, scraping along a groove. Improperly weighted, it's going to either skip, or gouge into the groove and cause excessive and unneeded wear of the grooves.
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Alba, that's a name I haven't seen since the 90s
Everything in our house was Alba. The stereo, the alarm clocks, the kitchen TV. My old man was a right old cheapskate
The ones I use are £120 each, and the one I bought for ripping was £200+