[Macfanforever]

Originally Posted by James Kirk

Hi Skip,

A situation I can relate, sympathize with and complete understand. As a child of the early 70’s I have many fond memories of spending hours listing to my records, looking at the wonderful artwork and liner notes. I love physical media and have started collecting my favorite’s albums on vinyl again. Lots of fun.

However, that being said, I find that the very unfortunate turn in the music industry over the past few years to brick-wall or heavily compress music on CD has rendered the music listing experience of one that I loved to one that is rather unpleasant and fatiguing.

So while I always prefer to own something that is tangible I had to weigh out my options of owning a physical release but not enjoying the sound quality, even to the point of discomfort or buying a digital release of my favorite music that is at an extremely high audiophile quality. By going the digital HD download route I find my love and passion for music has returned, and I actually look forward to new release day again.

In all honesty however, the lack of physical media in my collection sucks, (I also have to make sure that I back my system up regularly) but that is where I find myself in the music world today.
Take care Skip,

Christian

Hi Christian.I see where you coming from the same generation as me. The digital HD sounds great .I agree.Also I agree on backing those up.
On the other side of how great the internet and whats available of my favorite past time TV shows and movies and old music videos.I agree on lack of new CDs.I was so happy that vinyl is coming back and Stevie's 24K and CV released on vinyl.I just have to get used too of the new way on how music is delivered like I have and enjoyed with my TV shows and movies ,books and magazines in PDF. It saves room without having the clutter of boxes of physical VHS tapes,DVD's,books and magazines to kill my back moving them around.

I will accept the digital HD download route and not the crappy MP3's .

Thanks for the detailed info on this .

Originally Posted by Macfan4life

Ha! I'm with you!

I'm glad that you are in the same boat too.