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[Sy Borg]

[Papus79]

[Count Lucanor]

[Pattern-chaser]

Does everyone except me consume music via YouTube? I didn't realise it was so popular. Whatever happened to a hi-fi in the lounge, and disks (black or silver) on a player?

[Steve3007]

I rarely consume music via YouTube. These days I mostly consume it via Amazon Music by saying "Alexa, play..." to whichever bit of technology is listening at the moment, although I have a turntable for listening to my crackly old Smiths and Dylan LPs. People have been complaining about music medium changes for a long time:

[Papus79]

Does everyone except me consume music via YouTube? I didn't realise it was so popular. Whatever happened to a hi-fi in the lounge, and disks (black or silver) on a player?

I typically buy albums or download mixes and listen. It's just that it's easier to share Youtube/Soundcloud/Mixcloud, also there's a lot of content on Soundcloud/Mixcloud that's not donwloadable and can't be purchased- so in those cases I have to listen online.

[Pattern-chaser]

Slightly off-topic here, but does anyone bother with higher technical quality? Maybe CD quality or better? If you're into streaming, do you use Tidal's high quality service? Or is the general opinion that only the music matters, not the quality with which it is presented?

I've been a lifelong hifi enthusiast, and mostly listen to my music from my PC disk, via a Chord Mojo and Sennheisser HD800S or Grado SR325e headphones. The point is the music, of course, but (for me) the quality enhances the whole experience. How about you?

[Sy Borg]

[Count Lucanor]

Does everyone except me consume music via YouTube? I didn't realise it was so popular. Whatever happened to a hi-fi in the lounge, and disks (black or silver) on a player?

The amount of free content in Youtube vastly exceeds the one available for purchase during the pre-internet era. So one can listen to the old tapes, vinyl and CD collection, some of which may not be in good shape, but most of that is also available online and quickly accessible when you want to listen to it. My first tapes from 1980 still sound OK, but new sound equipment often comes without tape and vinyl players. I convert everything I want to keep to mp3, put it in a USB stick and then listen it on the car or home stereo.

Before the internet era, for example, only a few lucky people had access to Roque Cordero's work:

[Papus79]

[Papus79]

[Papus79]

[LuckyR]

Slightly off-topic here, but does anyone bother with higher technical quality? Maybe CD quality or better? If you're into streaming, do you use Tidal's high quality service? Or is the general opinion that only the music matters, not the quality with which it is presented?

I've been a lifelong hifi enthusiast, and mostly listen to my music from my PC disk, via a Chord Mojo and Sennheisser HD800S or Grado SR325e headphones. The point is the music, of course, but (for me) the quality enhances the whole experience. How about you?

Back in the day I would purchase an album. Play it once on a Bang and Olafson linear turntable while recording it on a Kyocera cassette deck to high quality tape, taking care to capture every peak. Put the album away and listen to the tape until it degraded, then repeat.

[LuckyR]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1rX9E8NuRw

James Taylor live with Steve Gadd on drums. No machine can capture what Steve Gadd did in this with tension and release that that nothing to do with athlectic prowess.

Drum machines are overused in popular music for financial and logistical reasons. The machines have their ideal applications (I use them at times, myself) but economic rationalisation, not taste, has driven their spread. A good drummer with a feel for the music craps on any drum machine from a great height in most music. Alas, as people's ears are conditioned to the machine beats all around them today they become ever less adept at telling the difference.

More of a Peart man myself, but I have to give credit where credit is due. Speaking of the drum solo on Aja, natch.

[Sy Borg]

James Taylor live with Steve Gadd on drums. No machine can capture what Steve Gadd did in this with tension and release that that nothing to do with athlectic prowess.

Drum machines are overused in popular music for financial and logistical reasons. The machines have their ideal applications (I use them at times, myself) but economic rationalisation, not taste, has driven their spread. A good drummer with a feel for the music craps on any drum machine from a great height in most music. Alas, as people's ears are conditioned to the machine beats all around them today they become ever less adept at telling the difference.

More of a Peart man myself, but I have to give credit where credit is due. Speaking of the drum solo on Aja, natch.

Neil certainly had his moments. When it comes to prog drummers, I like Bill Bruford. He was kooky, adventurous and his snappiness always lent a clarity to anything he played, even when the vocalist is struggling :)