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I would never make it my main source of listening due to it's low bit rate sound. Those less finicky about sound quality can use on line services and need not ever again bother with Physical Media such as cDs, SACD, Blu-Rays, etc.
I love good sound quality and have expensive hifi, and I have to say that Spotify Premium at 320 kps is perfectly acceptable - indeed, blind tests have shown that people cannot tell the difference between bit rates from 128 upwards. I have a large CD collection, but it's fast gathering dust with the sheer convenience of Spotify, and most sleeve-type information is readily available elsewhere.
I love good sound quality and have expensive hifi, and I have to say that Spotify Premium at 320 kps is perfectly acceptable - indeed, blind tests have shown that people cannot tell the difference between bit rates from 128 upwards. I have a large CD collection, but it's fast gathering dust with the sheer convenience of Spotify, and most sleeve-type information is readily available elsewhere.
I also consider myself an audiophile, and have a lot of cash invested in my system. Spotify and good internet Radio Stations (such as Linn) sound very good, but not equal to CD quality, and far from SACD, Blu-Ray, or DVD-A. I could live with Spotify as my only source if I had to, but I'm glad that I do not have to. I also find that it occasionally is inconvenient. I just tried to bring up the Emerson Quartet recording of Shostakovich's Eighth Quartet
and all 15 Quartets popped up, by movement, with no indication to which numbered Quartet each movement belongs to. It would be much easier to pull a CD out of a jewell case and find what I want, or even scan my hard drive if I access my music that way.
I just tried the same thing and it clearly lists all the quartets disc by disc, all in order movement by movement, so very easy to access just the eighth, so not sure what you're doing; you need to click on the album for it to display all contents correctly in order. Just doing an A-B comparison with original disc, mmm, nowt really in it..
One wonders whether a future thread will be titled "Why buy anything" as it is already possible to click on a vast number of YouTube selections, all free of charge.
One wonders whether a future thread will be titled "Why buy anything" as it is already possible to click on a vast number of YouTube selections, all free of charge.
At any point, we tend to take certain things for granted. At present we are taking almost unrestricted internet access, free to use sites such as youtube and so on for granted, I think.
These things may well continue for a long time, but there are no guarantees.
I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.
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