Post #2554635

2026-05-03 14:46 UTC

I recently got into vinyl, and what I found was that convenience is antithetical to my music listening experience. The less I have to think about the process of turning on music, the less I think about the music at all, leaving me without any real memories about it. The more deliberate I have to be about my music, the better. Like, yeah, I *can* listen to a full album on a streaming site, but I *don't*. It just doesn't happen, and I can't get myself to change, so I change the medium instead. Might not be the solution for everyone, but I can understand how having a dedicated box for music on the go would be preferable, not just in spite of the inconvenience, but because of it.

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@Sisyphe@lemmy.world 2026-05-03 15:48

This fits my experience as well. Lately I've been listening to music as a main activity, not as background noise. I use my laptop, an external DAC and a pair or nice open back headphones. The whole setup keeps me tied to my couch, I can't go wandering around and doing other stuff, I don't keep my phone in reach, I just lay and listen. I'd say good music deserves the foreground.

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@TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 2026-05-03 15:47

I don't think the vinyl analogy holds up here, because even though I don't use vinyl, I recognize it's a very different way to experience music. Vinyls you have to physically go out and buy, physically retrieve, physically place into your player, and then listen to in one static location. The iPod, meanwhile, is damn-near the same thing: you have 1) a portable electronic device 2) of a similar size and form factor 3) holding the mathematically exact same digital recordings of songs 4) which you listen back to through nearly the same medium (same speakers; different DAC) and 5) can see displayed on a screen. Navigating through the music is very slightly, near-meaninglessly different. As noted: the ClickWheel(TM). Nevertheless, even under the premise that it's highly analogous to vinyl, this would be like if you had a comparison of vinyl versus digital audio and spent half of it ranting about streaming services while basically ignoring local digital playback. That'd be fine if you set out with "vinyl versus streaming", but you started on the premise "vinyl versus digital". "Here's my comparison of CRTs and OLEDs. But first, a rant about Netflix."

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