hifi

this is Serious Gourmet Bait to get me to write a long hi-fi thread. maybe these could be sit and talk videos instead if there's any interest.

* here's a tldr; on the hi-fi format wars in 2025:
- vinyl is still enormously popular and many serious audiophiles optimize their entire system for vinyl playback rather than CD or streaming
- despite CDs being largely forgotten by the average consumer, audiophiles still love CDs and often prefer them to streaming
- streaming is becoming more and more prevalent, to the extent that it's the default for most showrooms. arguably the most complex and expensive to optimize vs. vinyl and CDs.

expert sources on a niche web3 social media with the user base of 37 have now validated the shade i've been throwing on vinyl hipsters for the past 15 year

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yeah yeah 
i actually do sympathize with that

the other one -- which is the reason i like physical books -- is the fact that they're physcially present in your living space 

like i forget books that i purely do audio or kindle much faster than books that i keep a physical copy of
just because at least once a year i see the book and triggers the memory and keeps it fresh

the real cool kids have tube DACs and tube rectified CD players (or both) 😎