The Rise and Fall of Music Sales, by Format
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It's funny, I'm always behind the curve. I finally pretty much stopped buying CD's in the last couple of years, and now I download. Everybody else is streaming, apparently. I kind of like the illusion that I own the music.
I was only joking
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It's funny, I'm always behind the curve. I finally pretty much stopped buying CD's in the last couple of years, and now I download. Everybody else is streaming, apparently. I kind of like the illusion that I own the music.
@Doctor-Phibes said in The Rise and Fall of Music Sales, by Format:
It's funny, I'm always behind the curve. ...
I feel the same. Soon after I figured out how to produce a music CD (that would be the "Piano World CD"), the era of CD basically ended. Just as I figured out how to produce a movie DVD (the sort with somewhat fancy "menus" that let you select scenes even when played on a non-computer DVD appliance), the era of DVD also quickly ended -- the world moved on to streaming.
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@Doctor-Phibes said in The Rise and Fall of Music Sales, by Format:
It's funny, I'm always behind the curve. ...
I feel the same. Soon after I figured out how to produce a music CD (that would be the "Piano World CD"), the era of CD basically ended. Just as I figured out how to produce a movie DVD (the sort with somewhat fancy "menus" that let you select scenes even when played on a non-computer DVD appliance), the era of DVD also quickly ended -- the world moved on to streaming.
@Axtremus said in The Rise and Fall of Music Sales, by Format:
@Doctor-Phibes said in The Rise and Fall of Music Sales, by Format:
It's funny, I'm always behind the curve. ...
I feel the same. Soon after I figured out how to produce a music CD (that would be the "Piano World CD"), the era of CD basically ended. Just as I figured out how to produce a movie DVD (the sort with somewhat fancy "menus" that let you select scenes even when played on a non-computer DVD appliance), the era of DVD also quickly ended -- the world moved on to streaming.
I stream tv all the time, and stopped buying DVD's years ago. There's something different about music, though. I guess because it's so much more replayable than a movie.
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It's funny, I'm always behind the curve. I finally pretty much stopped buying CD's in the last couple of years, and now I download. Everybody else is streaming, apparently. I kind of like the illusion that I own the music.
@Doctor-Phibes said in The Rise and Fall of Music Sales, by Format:
I kind of like the illusion that I own the music.
+1! Wait, I do own it!
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@Doctor-Phibes said in The Rise and Fall of Music Sales, by Format:
I kind of like the illusion that I own the music.
+1! Wait, I do own it!
@mark said in The Rise and Fall of Music Sales, by Format:
+1! Wait, I do own it!
I threw out all my old vinyl in the middle of the chaos when we moved house, including an old and rather bedraggled Kind of Blue from the 1980's. It had all been sitting in the attic for 20 years.
Then a couple of weeks later, I thought "Oh, shit".
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@mark said in The Rise and Fall of Music Sales, by Format:
+1! Wait, I do own it!
I threw out all my old vinyl in the middle of the chaos when we moved house, including an old and rather bedraggled Kind of Blue from the 1980's. It had all been sitting in the attic for 20 years.
Then a couple of weeks later, I thought "Oh, shit".
@Doctor-Phibes I found an original 1959 "Deep groove mono 6-eye labels pressing of Kind of Blue a couple of years ago. Picked it up for $40. It's in very good condition too.
Average selling price now is $150 with the highest one selling for $950. 2 days ago, one sold for $225.00
I listened to it last week. It's a sublime experience. Especially since I purchased a new Line Contact Diamond w/Boron Cantilever stylus, for my cartridge. That set me back $250 but it was worth every penny. The soundstage that it produces is amazing and surrounds you in sound. You hear things far outside the placement of the stereo speakers. You hear individual instruments placed in the soundstage, 90 degrees to the left and right, and beyond. Even with a mono recording, the soundstage is huge. I have been told, and I totally agree that listening to my stereo is like wearing headphones. I actually like it better than headphones.
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@Doctor-Phibes I found an original 1959 "Deep groove mono 6-eye labels pressing of Kind of Blue a couple of years ago. Picked it up for $40. It's in very good condition too.
Average selling price now is $150 with the highest one selling for $950. 2 days ago, one sold for $225.00
I listened to it last week. It's a sublime experience. Especially since I purchased a new Line Contact Diamond w/Boron Cantilever stylus, for my cartridge. That set me back $250 but it was worth every penny. The soundstage that it produces is amazing and surrounds you in sound. You hear things far outside the placement of the stereo speakers. You hear individual instruments placed in the soundstage, 90 degrees to the left and right, and beyond. Even with a mono recording, the soundstage is huge. I have been told, and I totally agree that listening to my stereo is like wearing headphones. I actually like it better than headphones.
@mark said in The Rise and Fall of Music Sales, by Format:
@Doctor-Phibes I found an original 1959 "Deep groove mono 6-eye labels pressing of Kind of Blue a couple of years ago. Picked it up for $40. It's in very good condition too.
Average selling price now is $150 with the highest one selling for $950. 2 days ago, one sold for $225.00
I listened to it last week. It's a sublime experience. Especially since I purchased a new Line Contact Diamond w/Boron Cantilever stylus, for my cartridge. That set me back $250 but it was worth every penny. The soundstage that it produces is amazing and surrounds you in sound. You hear things far outside the placement of the stereo speakers. You hear individual instruments placed in the soundstage, 90 degrees to the left and right, and beyond. Even with a mono recording, the soundstage is huge. I have been told, and I totally agree that listening to my stereo is like wearing headphones. I actually like it better than headphones.
That sounds very cool. I've never been an audiophile of any sort, it's just not somewhere I want to start spending money (although I do have an aging pair of good quality headphones), but back when I interned at the BBC for a summer I must admit listening in to some of their gear was an amazing experience.
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I've a pair of Sony headphones I often use with my record player. Pretty freaking great and cheaper than $2,000 speakers.
