My niece lives in a village in central Lincolnshire quite near the town of Bourne. She cannot get a broadband service. She gets dial-up speeds and cannot stream anything. CD and vinyl are her only sources. I visit often and enjoy listening to whatever CDs she has recently bought. I have been having broadband speed problems for the past week or so - I live not two clicks from a major exchange but my download speed has deteriorated to less that 4.5kBps. I pay for 20! My provider is Sky, who say that they are "working on it." If I didn't have my CDs and my Vinyls I would have nothing.
It will be a while before I consign my music pleasures to a "streaming" source, if ever.
GrahamS - It's not what you hear that counts, it's what you think you hear........
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