Digital music sales stall

[E-Stat]

Blu ray is great and all, but it's no more convenient than vinyl. I'm not so in love with gear that I own any vinyl.

While I'm not "so in love with gear", the earliest part of my music collection going back forty years is vinyl. So, I have two turntables to enjoy it. You're correct in that any single-disc format is not as convenient as server based music. The genie is already out of the bottle and there is no turning back. Gen Y doesn't know anything differently.

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[harley .guy07]

Personally I just like a physical format to use even though I have two laptops and a dac with usb input to use to play my music and set up my system with a server. I will not say that I won't do it at all but for now I download flac and burn it to disk at a slow enough speed to not change the quality. I also have software to burn dvd audio disks which I know are not popular to buy at music stores but you can find high def flac downloads in 24 96 format and with programs like dvd audio solo you can burn your high res flac to dvd audio and get the high res format and through my oppo player and ps audio dac it sounds as good as any format I have heard and even though dvd audio is dead in the music stores and in direct downloads it works well to burn to for these formats.

As far as streaming goes I think that it works well for casual listening like a radio station but for audiophiles with good systems when it comes to anything past that there just is not enough people out there requesting it. When the mass public out there do not have systems capable of hearing the difference between mp3 and flac and also the fact that most younger people go with what they know(or have heard) all they know is mp3 type formats that to them sound fine because they have not been educated in the abilities that today's high def formats can do with the right equipment. But unfortunately the companies selling streaming content or download content want to charge a premium for higher def versions of the songs they store. Its something that will be interesting to see what happens in the audio world. I don't think the high end audio market will die but I do see it changing and how it will change is yet to be seen.

[harley .guy07]

Personally I just like a physical format to use even though I have two laptops and a dac with usb input to use to play my music and set up my system with a server. I will not say that I won't do it at all but for now I download flac and burn it to disk at a slow enough speed to not change the quality. I also have software to burn dvd audio disks which I know are not popular to buy at music stores but you can find high def flac downloads in 24 96 format and with programs like dvd audio solo you can burn your high res flac to dvd audio and get the high res format and through my oppo player and ps audio dac it sounds as good as any format I have heard and even though dvd audio is dead in the music stores and in direct downloads it works well to burn to for these formats.

As far as streaming goes I think that it works well for casual listening like a radio station but for audiophiles with good systems when it comes to anything past that there just is not enough people out there requesting it. When the mass public out there do not have systems capable of hearing the difference between mp3 and flac and also the fact that most younger people go with what they know(or have heard) all they know is mp3 type formats that to them sound fine because they have not been educated in the abilities that today's high def formats can do with the right equipment. But unfortunately the companies selling streaming content or download content want to charge a premium for higher def versions of the songs they store. Its something that will be interesting to see what happens in the audio world. I don't think the high end audio market will die but I do see it changing and how it will change is yet to be seen.