dsheinem wrote:So you stream enthusiasts don't really care if the quality of your music is closer to what you get on the radio than to what it sounds like in an uncompressed format?
When I listen to music on my PC/laptop speakers, streams and MP3s are fine. When I listen to music on a stereo, on headphones, or in my car, a CD trumps any lossy format by a mile.
I generally agree with this. I do however rip my cds to .flac and keep a digital library to access rather than swapping out cds at the house. The car on the other hand is usually a cd playing unless I'm listening to a morning or afternoon radio show.
Despite these efforts my wife will put the same music on from Pandora and listen to it in horrible quality. It doesn't bother her a bit. Sometimes she just plays it directly from the kindle hdx which has remarkably loud speakers for a tablet but still sounds roughly equivalent to an 80's walkman.
Pandora works juuuuust fine for me. I am many things, an audiophile is not one of them. Which is probably good, since I don't need more things to dump my money into.
KalessinDB wrote:Pandora works juuuuust fine for me. I am many things, an audiophile is not one of them. Which is probably good, since I don't need more things to dump my money into.
It can be a pit for sure. It isn't a great hobby to be into unless you have deep pockets. Since I do not, I simply strive for something that pleases my ear. I wouldn't be considered an audiophile by any means. That said, it annoys me to listen to pandora on the stereo. I may be more inclined to settle if they allowed paid subscribers to get the higher quality stream on something other than a pc.
KalessinDB wrote:Pandora works juuuuust fine for me. I am many things, an audiophile is not one of them. Which is probably good, since I don't need more things to dump my money into.
It can be a pit for sure. It isn't a great hobby to be into unless you have deep pockets. Since I do not, I simply strive for something that pleases my ear. I wouldn't be considered an audiophile by any means. That said, it annoys me to listen to pandora on the stereo. I may be more inclined to settle if they allowed paid subscribers to get the higher quality stream on something other than a pc.
Yeah my pockets aren't exactly deep, and I'm hitting the bottom of them with my new-ish foray into arcade collecting in addition to home consoles.
I get what you're saying about something that's good to you. Many of my home consoles are modded for YPbPr because it's the best quality that I personally can see a difference at -- there are people who claim that RGB is "crisper" or "more vibrant" to them, but I personally can't see the difference btwn RGB and YPbPr so I mod my systems for the latter and rock with it. Saves me the hassle of also finding a PVM or an XRGB.
Just to/too/two is annoying? Not your/you're and there/their/they're? Or than/then? I find it all equally annoying. End hears the won know won nose: Affect and effect.
