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A question asked before on other channels. If streaming could replicate vinyl then still no Nothing beats holding the LP in your hands and the ritual of playing it. Streaming has its place.

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I wish you would give SACD a try. It's better than streaming in terms of sound quality - but not convenience. And - you might kill me for saying this - it's better than vinyl! I agree with you on the U2 sound quality. I love their music but the sound quality mostly sucks. The bass and the drums are too low in level on most songs. It's kinda weak. It's almost like the guitarist and the singer both have huge egos to the point they don't want to share the spotlight with the rhythm section! Did I say that? Lol! I wish they would remaster their music to do justice to their great drumming and innovative bass lines. It's so sad because their music is so good.

Nice that you are moving to Florida! That's where I live and there are some great Record Stores!

NOW you are making sense, lol! But seriously, very useful information.

Well, i Will stick to physical format... Or cable classic rock for background music. Talking about your move to Florida soon... I hope for you that climate change will not make you loose all your lp's in a hurricane! 🌪️

Gotta try out his Amps! They are Incredible!

Wow! (10 months into the future), i get up this morning. have my TeaFefe, go play hockey. get home and watching this vid, before shedding on music, while watching Teams USA/Canada in the IIHF World Hockey Championship & see you showcase eevery lp and fave of mine also. must be sinchronicity. Cheers from a Detroiter in SpoCanada.

I am a huge vinyl fan and I love the connection I have with the music when spinning a good record but saying that…. Lossless streaming can beat vinyl at times. I have an over 50K invested in my 2 channel stereo so I feel I get fairly good quality sound from any digital or analog music I play. I can and have matched up songs from both sources and have found both to sound better reproducing the music. So it all comes down to your ear and how you prefer it. Super detailed and critical of every detail goes to the digital file. But I don’t normally prefer this. I like a slightly warmed over sound with more soul and this is why I personally prefer vinyl. But again, this changes with music too. If I’m listening to Etta James belt out something soulful and full of feelings then vinyl 100%… But then you have Rage Against the Machine that’s just an attack of cymbals and guitar and I think the digital file is better at reproducing the sound rather than a needle in a groove. I still have the record though….

Hi there, hope you and Philip are aces and playing Rush volume 11! Just kidding, I just have to get an inside joke in. I haven't been getting notifications up here, so I had to do a search for you guys. I'm going to see Bruce Cockburn at old Massey Hall in Toronto, so I'm real excited about that. I can't play guitar to save my life but I will be studying. Best to your family. Your daughter must be still toughing it out. Does she have her doctor degree? I still have nightmares I'm back in dental school. Alan Parsons, wow, what band. One of my older sisters got all their albums, she paid to have them sent to me. Sisters are the best! You guys moving around in fine Kentucky? Take it from me, " Moving Pictures ". Can't go wrong😊

Absolutely! I couldn't agree more, especially when it comes to buying records that you'll actually play. As a new collector myself, I made the mistake of purchasing too many during sales due to FOMO, and unfortunately, many of them never sparked my interest or got played. In the end, I ended up selling them at a loss.

Hi Melinda. I love your channel. I love music just like you. It’s my only passion besides vanilla ice cream. lol! I love vinyl too, but now I stream my music through Apple Music. The sound quality is amazing! Have you thought about streaming music through a service?

I live in Florida and it’s Paradise. Welcome

If you put the record on you should know you have to flip it in 20 minutes and that is one of the things we love is the physical element. Sorry, no streaming for me but for those who like it, more power to you.

I was at my hi-fi dealers a few months ago listening to some amps, in one of the demo rooms they had a D'agostino amplifier with a pair of Marten speakers and a streamer connected to it as background music for the staff whilst awaiting a client to listen to said system, I think the cost of that system was around £70K plus and it sounded terrible. So no, streaming will NEVER sound as good as vinyl or CD, this was using hi res files too, I was NOT impressed.

That's not even a reasonable question. It can't, period. The limiting nature present in coding and decoding used for streaming is obviously not present in vinyl.

Hi I have become very choosey, I live in NY and the going rate for albums is 37.00 and up. I've been buying albums I owned as a teenager, I hope prices go down soon

Good luck in Florida. I moved here in 97 and haven't looked back. Keep up the good work

Hey wait a minute...aren't you supposed to be packing?? 😁 I've been "streaming" almost exclusively for a decade now (meaning, I no longer have a CD/SACD player in the system). Qobuz has only been in my setup for four or so year, but I have thousands of albums on a network server, and use Roon to catalog and stream it to multiple devices in the house. All this transformed how I play digital music. And I buy downloads now, in high-res if available (as most new releases are). Life is good! I hate to say it, but it cost me much more than I cared to spend to get my digital side to sound as good as the analog. Yet it was worth it, given how much I play music around the house. There is so much music *not* on vinyl that I can't see ever being exclusively one or the other. Job 1 for me is being a music lover, regardless of format! 👍

Net or gross?

Hi Melinda, hope the move works out well for you and your husband.

I agree that streamers nowdays are almost a must and very handy for music and sound quality with many streaming services are great. If I was going with a streamer for ease of use and sound I forsure would be looking at the Eversolo DMP-A8 much better user interface and better sound.

"I have money to burn and I blow a lot of it on stereo gear. Therefore, I am an audiophile." The typical audiophile.

Streaming is dangerous territory because it allows you to multi-task. I’ve played records a lot less for the past 10 years than I did before, but end up to listening to more music. The convenience is the biggest factor and can have a great effect as time goes by. It literally is the bandwagon of the future although it won’t stop you from buying records which is an affliction that many vinyl enthusiasts find difficult to escape from. Having said that, be advised to proceed with caution as you do not want to follow the path of neglecting your collection which may invariably occur the day you add a really good streamer to your equipment set-up.

Just curious How many albums do u have

The Beatles and Van Halen are my favorite bands.

All the Bill Evans you'd ever need! Arguably.

Hi Melinda! Great video as always! Yes I understand completely what you are saying, it is a pain when you're doing things and have to flip over a record or change a CD haha! Many times when I am laying back on the couch, I put You Tube on to watch my 80's Glam Metal and Hard Rock videos. But I still buy albums and CDs to support the bands I love. Hope all is well with you and family. Love your channel! Keep rocking like always! 😃🤘🤘♥

I've been using the Volume primo streamer for a couple of years and, like you think about Pecan pie. I think Volumio is a great product and an amazing steamer Of course, we love vinyl records, but it's too stupid to deny the convenience and high quality of Hi-Res recordings. Thank you for your opinion

Nope for me. Streamers sound clinically bright. Its good for background music while multitasking though

Guests having cheese and crackers by the pool? Get a Steinway with a piano player.

Interesting. I like to play my vinyl, but for one off tracks that I like by an artist I really don't want the expense of buying the LP. Especially at today's absurd prices.

Streaming is ok once in a while. I use Spotify and ITunes. I have an iPod classic also for when I’m out walking enjoying the nice weather but vinyl records will always be my favorite way of listening to music

Luv your refreshing perspective , you and Audio Masterclass are my two favourites channels. One additional point , I have a small room, have invested in a vertical Project Turntable . Guess what colour , especially splash look great as wall decoration!

We travel in an RV. I have a Yamaha WXA-50 and a Dell mini 9020 loaded down with flac files I have ripped from CD, vinyl or purchased. Everything is 44/16 or better. Streaming digital files doesn't have to suck, but most people equate it with low quality mp3s because they don't know any better.

It's nice, the people that kept it alive , promoted records, bought loads when they were cheap will someday be selling off their enormous collections or passing them down and the circle of life continues. So many complaints about how expensive records are now from people with shelves heaving with exclusives behind them online right now 😂 like yeah, you bought them all and made them popular. You'll have to sell them for them to begin cheap bargains again. The irony

Or you’re relaxing in the sweet spot and doze off only to be awoken by the LP skipping at the end

The Orchard streaner does sound impressive! I do stream music. Streaming is fascinating to me, but the dac in the streamer is more fascinating to me than the streamer, but I slightly prefer cds over streaming. And it is fascinating that a streamer has memory that is similar to a hard drive. The cd spools hold 100 cds. That where I store my cds. So my cds dont require much storage space, about the same space as a streamer. I also have copied my cds to a hard drive that dont sound as good as cds. I also copy youtube record videos to a hard drive, using Wondershare software WAV files that I bought on the internet, that sound better than store bought cds, pretty close to record sounding, without worrying about records wearing out. I also copy records straight to a hard drive, & back them up to a second hard drive. Now dacs are a different story, good for streaming & cds. A dvd player & a dac can be combined to play music, or use a cd player. Here is the reason a cd player isnt as good. A cd player is actually a dac & a cd players turntable in 1 box. Usually the cd transport wears out first & you lose the whole box with the dac in the box. With a dvd player as a transport, if it wears out, you still have the dac. The reason you need a dvd player as a transport, but cant use a dvd player as a transport, is that a cd player dont have a digital connector to hook up the dac. Never buy an expensive transport as it is a waste of money. Also a tiny cheap dac is great to hook up to a laptop cd burner, using cheap Bose headphones.

Nice review, but different at the same time. I glad that you are expanding your horizons. I wanted to ask you a question. Did MOFI do a one step on the Eagles-Long Road Out of Eden? Thank you in advance. Dennis

I have 30 feet of albums I bought until they evaporated in 1989. I didn't listen to them much but in 2016 I quit listening to them altogether after we moved because the albums are in the basement due to lack of room. Instead I stream off a computer in my house that I keep ripped CDs on. I stream Pandora when I am in my old pickup truck. I also spent a long trip with my brother who uses Tidal which is a higher end streaming service. Probably because I watch this channel, I recently decided that I could store a couple feet of albums upstairs and have a small selection of LPs to listen to. Each time I put an album on I say to myself "wow this LP sounds much better than streaming." Claims can be made that streamed music has better separation, more accurate bass, no nicks or hiss, and other positives, but in the end digital music doesn't have the freshness of analog LPs. Digital is missing something and it just doesn't sound as good. But the convenience of digital makes it good enough. I got my first car in 1973 when all they had was radios. The first thing I did was install a cassette deck because you can't play records in your car. But I didn't buy pre-recorded cassettes because it was obvious they wouldn't last. Instead I always bought the album and recorded chrome 90 minute cassettes for the car. Because of that I still have every album in excellent condition 50 years later. Digital is the modern day cassette. We have to use digital in vehicles for the same reason I used cassettes - because it can handle bumps. I found that the Tidal streaming service doesn't have a lot of content in the same way Blockbuster only had a small fraction of the possible movies. If you don't mind being limited to what the streaming service wants you to listen to, then they are fine.

Streamers has a place in the house or cabin as background music yah why not. Another Good Video as usual and Good Luck in FLA we look forward to reviews from FLA and the new audio room.

I have 3 of the original Kiss albums. A VG that I got years ago at a flea market, a VG+ and a. near mint. On all the other copies with Kissin' Time, it's the only bad song on the album.

Good review Melinda!

Love it. When I mow I listen to my IPod. I have tens of thousand songs on my computer. I put on my various Pods music to listen and help pass the time away while working

Oh no, the “S” word!

U can buy it as just a DAC.. And that is what I need to really have a good look at...

let’s not forget about so called local streaming from NAS, I subscribe to qobuz but I also have about 10 000 albums on NAS it all boils down to the streamer and dac used but most important how digital file was created, mastering, source used, at the end of the day digital media may play at nice quality but also may sound bad and the same goes toward vinyl

Can you tell me what turntable cover that is? Thank you in advance.

Blasphemer! Blas-streamer?? Hey is that the S/510 in the background? How do you like it?

Personally, I find it very difficult to believe that people can hear differences in equipment. I think a lot of it falls into the realm of "self-fulling prophecy" where people imagine they can actually hear the difference because they've already told themselves they will. Although not audio related I went through a situation with a co-worker who was demanding a faster computer in our talk studio. This goes WAY back to the days of the introduction of the Pentium processor, and that's what he wanted. He told us he couldn't tolerate how slow the 486 was. I approached management and they refused to allow the funds to be used. But the co-worker still demanded a faster machine. I finally called our IT supply guy and asked him if he had a "PENTIUM" sticker in his shop. He did, and dropped it off. I put the sticker on the 486 computer, and when my co-worker arrived I told him we were able to get his Pentium computer. Overjoyed, he quickly walked to the talk studio to try it out. "Wow, this is so much faster! Thank you!" My boss couldn't believe I pulled it off, and we never heard another complaint.