Subj : Vinyl vs CD
To   : Alan Ianson
From : August Abolins
Date : Sun Feb 13 2022 04:26 pm

Hello Alan Ianson!

** On Monday 07.02.22 - 14:00, you wrote to me:

 AI> As hard as I tried though, I couldn't get rid of that
 AI> sound. I bought more than one copy of several albums, and
 AI> I always put my music on tape to save ware on the vinyl. I
 AI> was a bit of an audiophile in those days.

I never had to buy extra copies of the same album. On the rare  
occassion, I *would* encounter a seemingly defective LP, but I  
simply returned it to exchange for another one.

I too.. would create a "master" copy on cassette tape and play  
that most of the time.  That also gave me the chance to avoid a  
track that I didn't care for.


 AI> By and large my collection today is on the HD. I have many
 AI> CDs but were they are now I am not sure. It's so much
 AI> easier to find/play music or movies through the computer.

And.. it can be more fun to search for a tune or artist and cue  
up everything related.

Since Spotify allows downloads, and since I don't have  
unlimited high-speed internet at home, the goal is relegate an  
old Thinkpad T40p laptop to act as my music server connected to  
my hifi. When I need to build my collection, I simply take the  
laptop where I have access to DSL, download the tunes I want,  
and then just take the machine home.

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  ../|ug

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