how many albums do you have in your music collection?
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Don't get me wrong, I don't think there is anything wrong with listening to music in mp3 form. I own an iPod (though the iPod earphones much like most portable audio player stock headphones are indeed terrible and I replaced them with a good pair of Sennheisers as well) and I rip all of my music to high quality VBR mp3s myself and as such they sound exactly the same as a CD to me.
I just see mp3 as a carrier format rather than a format for actually buying music in. I use it at home for convenience reasons (quick access, mixed playlists, shuffling through my entire collection, etc.) and on the road for portability reasons (a 60 gig mp3 player fits about 2/3 of my collection whereas that would take a car trunk full of CDs otherwise). Sadguru and NFU have pretty much summed up the reasons why buying music in hard copy is still preferable to some (or most, I would say) people so I won't bother with that anymore.
I just see mp3 as a carrier format rather than a format for actually buying music in. I use it at home for convenience reasons (quick access, mixed playlists, shuffling through my entire collection, etc.) and on the road for portability reasons (a 60 gig mp3 player fits about 2/3 of my collection whereas that would take a car trunk full of CDs otherwise). Sadguru and NFU have pretty much summed up the reasons why buying music in hard copy is still preferable to some (or most, I would say) people so I won't bother with that anymore.
Keith!
Broken Parts Club
Dont know what you mean by back to school listenings.
The HD 25's are great. they arnt to pricey if you get them from ebay as i did, but they do retail for alot in stores. For overall uses is say they are excellent. I got them for my audio course im doing so i use them for mixing but music and metal in particular sounds incredible on them. They produce the "air" in the recordings very nicely. I use them for everyday use on the bus etc too.
If you can compare them in a store, take in some albums and just listen to what they sound like. Check out the 650's too, these are phenomenol, you can REALLY hear the air on these beasts!
The HD 25's are great. they arnt to pricey if you get them from ebay as i did, but they do retail for alot in stores. For overall uses is say they are excellent. I got them for my audio course im doing so i use them for mixing but music and metal in particular sounds incredible on them. They produce the "air" in the recordings very nicely. I use them for everyday use on the bus etc too.
If you can compare them in a store, take in some albums and just listen to what they sound like. Check out the 650's too, these are phenomenol, you can REALLY hear the air on these beasts!
Rocky Raccoon
I am the Walrus
Keith! said:
errr it means he is going back to school and wants to listen to music there.
The US have just had their big summer break etc.
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yup.Benighted1 said:errr it means he is going back to school and wants to listen to music there.
The US have just had their big summer break etc.
thanks keith
ill check into it. appreciate the tips.
Evan84
Absinthe Minded
there´s no personal value in copied albums, if you´re a real music lover you know of the geekishly orgasmic feeling about owning these great albums that changed your life, just waching the album covers and lyrics...it´s almost childish, i mean, i don´t have many albums in my collection but 99% of them carry a huge personal value.
lol @ no personal value, the music is the same on the original cd as it is on the burned one
the 'real music lover' argument has such an absurd premise that it has it's own fallacy (actually called the 'no true scotsman' fallacy)
that's just how you feel, not how things actually are. and for someone who was incessant in his whiny 'that's just your opinion wahhhhh' rhetoric a couple weeks back, it's not only an unsound argument, it's also hypocritical
pwnt
the 'real music lover' argument has such an absurd premise that it has it's own fallacy (actually called the 'no true scotsman' fallacy)
that's just how you feel, not how things actually are. and for someone who was incessant in his whiny 'that's just your opinion wahhhhh' rhetoric a couple weeks back, it's not only an unsound argument, it's also hypocritical
pwnt
well usually when i have copied cd´s they either get broken or lost... so there´s my value of them... you can do as you like, this is just how i feel.
but i don´t think downloading should be illegalized anyway...it won´t affect the cd buying because there will always be the group of people that buy their cd´s and the group of people that don´t... and it´s nice to be able to check out music before buying it.
but i don´t think downloading should be illegalized anyway...it won´t affect the cd buying because there will always be the group of people that buy their cd´s and the group of people that don´t... and it´s nice to be able to check out music before buying it.
Splintered Vision
REAGAN SMASH!
^ Which should mean you care about those who make the music. Buy the fucking album and support the bands.
Splintered Vision
REAGAN SMASH!
Pear Goro said:
Well, if you like the music a certain band puts out and you want them to keep makign music, you should buy the album. That way the band gets some money and may be able to continue providing its fans with more music. Seems pretty logical to me.
Splintered Vision
REAGAN SMASH!
Sadguru
In my dream...
Not true. If you're ONLY a music lover, all you care about is music. An original record provides much more of an experience than the bare hearing.Pear Goro said:
Sadguru
In my dream...
HaloPhenomenon said:
As far as I'm concerned, I do think downloading should be illegalized. Being socially accepted as it is today truly reflects the [lack of] respect people give to art. An hungry man should feel ashamed for stealing an apple but downloading music illegaly is nothing to worry about, hey everyone's doing it right? That's generally the attitude, which I deplore. On many occasions, friends or family member ask me for CDR copies of my cds. I always decline their request and explain them why I do so. It can be done.
Heckelgruber
Fudgenator
ROFL at CDs not being "digital" ftlog. CDs are just an uncompressed format at a certain sampling rate. Distributing music as MP3s would be unsatisfactory to many too, since an "audiophile" MP3 is a bit of a contradiction.
I agree with DietCoke, I downlaod quite a lot of music but always buy as much as I can afford of the best stuff I've listened to. If everyone did this I think it would have the effect of weeding most of the CDs where the radio single is the only good song out of the market, which would arguably be a good thing.
But Illidurit's right about the point of the thread: How many albums you "have" from the point of view evaluating the music at your disposal should have nothing to do with how many you downloaded.
I agree with DietCoke, I downlaod quite a lot of music but always buy as much as I can afford of the best stuff I've listened to. If everyone did this I think it would have the effect of weeding most of the CDs where the radio single is the only good song out of the market, which would arguably be a good thing.
But Illidurit's right about the point of the thread: How many albums you "have" from the point of view evaluating the music at your disposal should have nothing to do with how many you downloaded.
