Digital future is slow to transition and digital customers have to suffer.

[Metal Man]

prayformojo said:

Metal Man said:

prayformojo said:

The entire world can stream music for all I care. As long as they still sell real albums on vinyl and/or CD, that's the route I'm taking.

What about DVD-A?  DVD-A is technically superior to CD in almost every possible way except for compatibility.  With DVD-A, almost everything is at least 24/48 and 24/96 is pretty common, too.  Then there is the capability of 5.1 surround, which I think sounds fantastic when it's lossless.  I really wish the industry would abandon the CD format in favor of DVD-A.

 

The problem for me is the fact that I have 80 plus albums on CD and another growing collection of vinyl. At this point, I have most of the "classics" and it would cost a furtune to double dip.

So for me, my rule is this. I buy new albums that are analog recordings on vinyl and everything else on CD. If I need something to work out to, I rip my albums and go AAC or MP3 since it doesn't really matter when you're listening to a song on your smartphone. Otherwise, everything is played right off the vinyl/disc at home through speakers.

Yeah, I definitely wouldn't want to re-buy my entire collection.  You made me curious about how many albums I have.  Turns out I have 386 (mostly albums, with a few EPs and singles mixed in) on CD, plus 4 box sets.  So yeah realistically, there is no way I'd re-buy all that on a new format.  I could definitely see re-buying some of my favorites, especially if they were remixed in hi-res 5.1 surround.  Re-buying an album just to get hi-res stereo would be less appealing, but if the price were right I might go for it for some of my favorites.  On the bright side, every DVD-A player I've ever seen can also play CDs, so re-buying albums wouldn't even be necessary.  At some point, I would like to have all my new purchases transition over to hi-res 5.1 DVD-A or some comparable format.  Sadly, I just don't think that's going to happen.