I've just been thinking in this age of convieneice where streaming is becoming increasingly popular, downloading is the norm and oddly vinyl is cool again and growing in popularity while the compact disc seems to be losing it's flavour with the masses. What sources and formats do you still use in your main hifi system today?
I'm currently listening to some jazz on an FM broadcast through a vintage NAD tuner, very lovely the sound is too! I could no doubt stream this broadcast, but as yet I don't know what station it is! I stumbled across it whilst scrolling down the backlit frequency scale (remeber those)? Without using this basic FM tuner I wouldn't of just randomly discovered a great jazz track and then shazamed it and bought the CD on Amazon. So I clearly still enjoy FM and CD. I play a lot of CDs usually when I listen to full albums and I'm starting to build a very small SACD collection. It's a shame this didn't take off, it really does sound very good.
The only streaming I do on my hifi is with youtube via my smart TV. Vevo music videos really are excellent quality with both pictures and sound. Also I stream digital radio occasionally via the iPod. I do download the odd chart track from iTunes every now and then and my CD collection is ripped to my iPod which is docked on an Arcam drDock for when I want the convenience of a long and varied playlist.
The occasional live concert on DVD or Bluray is a pleasure every so often too.
So what sources do you chaps mainly use in your systems today? I see so many threads regarding streaming and blutooth etc... Oh and of course the LP section of the forums. Do you think the CD is dying a slow and drawn out death, or is it practically dead? How many people don't even buy music anymore and have switched to just streaming from spotify? It might be interesting to read the differing responces.
I'm currently listening to some jazz on an FM broadcast through a vintage NAD tuner, very lovely the sound is too! I could no doubt stream this broadcast, but as yet I don't know what station it is! I stumbled across it whilst scrolling down the backlit frequency scale (remeber those)? Without using this basic FM tuner I wouldn't of just randomly discovered a great jazz track and then shazamed it and bought the CD on Amazon. So I clearly still enjoy FM and CD. I play a lot of CDs usually when I listen to full albums and I'm starting to build a very small SACD collection. It's a shame this didn't take off, it really does sound very good.
The only streaming I do on my hifi is with youtube via my smart TV. Vevo music videos really are excellent quality with both pictures and sound. Also I stream digital radio occasionally via the iPod. I do download the odd chart track from iTunes every now and then and my CD collection is ripped to my iPod which is docked on an Arcam drDock for when I want the convenience of a long and varied playlist.
The occasional live concert on DVD or Bluray is a pleasure every so often too.
So what sources do you chaps mainly use in your systems today? I see so many threads regarding streaming and blutooth etc... Oh and of course the LP section of the forums. Do you think the CD is dying a slow and drawn out death, or is it practically dead? How many people don't even buy music anymore and have switched to just streaming from spotify? It might be interesting to read the differing responces.