I'm doing this all wrong.
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I'm finding I like my Tidal subscription more and more. I've cut back on hitting the local thrifts and Goodwills for CDs, in fact, the only reason I do is to look for the really good ones to buy as I worry a little bit about if I would happen to stop my subscription. If I do, there goes all my favorites and I'll need to find them on physical media.
When I find CDs that I'm interested in, I add them to my favorites in Tidal to listen to them later. Like I mentioned, it would have to be a pretty good CD for me to actually buy one now.
I like to use the music sections in magazines as well to keep up with what's new. Course music postings here and at AK help quite a bit as well.
When I find CDs that I'm interested in, I add them to my favorites in Tidal to listen to them later. Like I mentioned, it would have to be a pretty good CD for me to actually buy one now.
I like to use the music sections in magazines as well to keep up with what's new. Course music postings here and at AK help quite a bit as well.
I use Tidal at home for the sound quality. Everywhere else I use Spotify as I love how spookily accurate their algorithm is at picking out music for me. It doesn't dig out the obvious stuff, which Tidal tends to do for me on radio..it digs up really random things that are songs that took me YEARS to find on my own. It just spits them out like, "Hey, I KNOW you, and I know you'll love this." This morning I drove into the parking deck at work blasting Bobby Fuller Four's "Let her dance" after it gave me "Bells of Rymney" by the Birds, as I was in a '60s mood. Tidal would have picked "I fought the law" and "Mr Tambourine Man".
So for Tidal, I pick my own music. Spotify, I let it pick and surprise me. And it never fails to surprise me in a good way.
So for Tidal, I pick my own music. Spotify, I let it pick and surprise me. And it never fails to surprise me in a good way.
If only I could get Spotify to sound as good as any of the other streaming services I would go that route for sure. Love everything about it except the sound just doesn't seem right to me. Every other service I have tried sounds from good to great. Spotify sounds thin and harsh. I have tried it several times and can never get it right.
I only use it in my car, and sometimes at work (because my work system is terrible and it doesn't matter). But I'm in my car a LOT, so it gets a lot of play. Plus it seems more stable over mobile than Tidal. At home, I never use it...Spotify sounds bad on my main system.
when you are in your car you are multi-tasking and discovering new music and you like the suggestions spotify is giving you. your sound quality expectations are low. with the TT you have to set aside time, you are focused, you have to go through the whole TT ritual, and the music is often not new to you. this gives you more time to focus on nits with your sound quality and not the music itself.
That and the TD-124 is entirely underwhelming (to these ears).
My car has a great stereo system. Supposedly Harman Kardon but who knows who the OEM is. Uses some sort or Dolby surround to focus things, and the car itself is very quiet inside so I the road noise isn't that distracting. I'm not saying its reference quality but I really do get lost in the music. And the car stereo probably gets more listening time than my home stereo.
I see myself going back to how I was when I was younger...less concerned about how it all sounds, and more concerned with finding something I haven't heard a thousand times. I'm really sick of being an audiophile.
My car has a great stereo system. Supposedly Harman Kardon but who knows who the OEM is. Uses some sort or Dolby surround to focus things, and the car itself is very quiet inside so I the road noise isn't that distracting. I'm not saying its reference quality but I really do get lost in the music. And the car stereo probably gets more listening time than my home stereo.
I see myself going back to how I was when I was younger...less concerned about how it all sounds, and more concerned with finding something I haven't heard a thousand times. I'm really sick of being an audiophile.
Amen to that!
I listen to news in the car, a good "alternative" radio station in the garage, and everything else on the stereo. Critical listening is reserved for the stereo; everything else is just for fun.
Can I have your speakers when you quit fer realsies?
Well I'm not quitting entirely! In fact, I'd say its easier to stop being an audiophile when you already have all the trappingsAmen to that!
I listen to news in the car, a good "alternative" radio station in the garage, and everything else on the stereo. Critical listening is reserved for the stereo; everything else is just for fun.
Can I have your speakers when you quit fer realsies?
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Yeah, well... I'm just putting it out there. Dibs!Well I'm not quitting entirely! In fact, I'd say its easier to stop being an audiophile when you already have all the trappings
Also, maybe you can blame your turntable. I'll probably get punched in the teeth for this but a while back when I asked my buddy about the TD124, his verbatim response was Best way to improve a 124 is sell it and buy a 301...
Heh.
That doesn't surprise me, and I always wish I'd gone the 124 route. Hey, wait, I just remembered this one came from YOU!! It's your fault. Kidding..its been entirely rebuilt since then. Its pretty, and its one of the few things my wife won't let me get rid of that she knows is worth some coin. It fits the decor. I do think if I put a heavier arm on it, it'll sound better. It's had a Stax UA-7cf, Fidelity Research FR-24 and SME-3009s2 on it. I just don't hear enough promise in the sound to bother with it.
That's me and things I've borrowed, and I need to go back and see what I owe back to who, as my brain reached capacity around 2015 when I began living in two different cities at the same time. I can't remember sh*t anymore.
Then I lost them
. I'm here with the 2011 ones.
Then I lost them
Yeah....I am going to need those back soon!
My wife dented one of the supertweeters. Since these are yours I'll have Alan Shaw send a replacement pair (gotta match of course, even though you can't even hear them) and give you the bill.
Sure....blame the wife.......I would too!
Wait, THAT'S why the world is upside down?
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