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I'm a total convert to live streaming.Quote:
Originally Posted by Landloper
I had Tidal Hirez and Spotify Premium subs in parallel for 4 months recently - I found (to my surprise) that I used Spotify pretty much exclusively so I just let the Tidal sub expire.
So it's Spotify Premium as my main music source. :thumbsup:
Excellent sound quality, imho - and such a fantastic way to explore new music and new recordings. And all for a a few £ a month. Amazing.
Testament's remastered issue of the 1955 [first] stereo recording of Wagner's Ring Cycle at Bayreuth conducted by Joseph Keilberth ~
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A great reading that I'd love to have on vinyl, sadly the cost of the records means I have to make do with the CD box set instead.
This morning 'Siegfried'
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Very similar experience here Jerry. When not Spotify Premium I stream my uploaded files from Google music to the Chromecast. Essentially my whole library of everything I've ever ripped or downloaded. Having said this I recently got the CD player out of the cupboard so my main system is all digital sources.Quote:
Originally Posted by jandl100
This does approx 90% of the listening. If I'm having a serious listen the vinyl comes out. Usually on rainy Sunday afternoons.
Right now this, which is fantastic (25p from a local record shop):
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Marco.
Has that sparked off a Brahms sesh now? :eyebrows:
Marco.
3 of the best from Bloch. :thumbsup:
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https://open.spotify.com/album/6lpOfHyt3WRi4nsM87l2Vy
This is very good, and I didn't think I liked Schnittke.
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https://open.spotify.com/album/57oLA2RM4uvYx9iwE3IJZI
What started me off re-exploring his music was this -- some film music "The story of the unknown actor", not at all what I was expecting from Schnittke! - pure romanticism
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https://open.spotify.com/album/2t0mcngtpUBiNJRz92kpe8
'Spotify' was great for comparing versions of the same work, but I found the general wealth of material distressing. I spent a great deal of time listening to bits of this and to bits of that. In my case 'huge choice' + 'lack of self discipline' led only to self-defeating dissipation.
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Ah yes, I can understand that. You need to maintain focus or it all goes skewiff quite easily and you end up listening to nothing much in particular.Quote:
Originally Posted by Landloper
But I've got the hang of it now.
One of the wonderful things I do with Spotify is choose a particular recording of a work to settle down with ....
I start off playing one and if that doesn't hit the spot I start a different recording at the point the first one had got to. And so on, until I find one that suits. Often enough, it can be done pretty close to seamlessly with Spotify.