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Question: Do you buy CDs or buy digital albums nowadays? Are you into high-resolution downloads or do you think MP3s are good enough?
Asked by Stephan (135.19.199.x) on May 22 2014, 12:02am
Reply on May 22 2014, 4:01am (edited at May 22 2014, 4:02am):
    I mostly buy digital downloads -- having a bit of plastic to rip and put in my drawer feels pointless and wasteful. I find vinyl to be more worthwhile than CDs, having nice big artwork and a ritual of turning them over, which can be nice at times, but mostly I still find myself listening to mp3s.

    High-resolution is a bunch of nonsense for consumption. Lossless compression and higher bit depths and samplerates are great (and often necessary!) if you want to do drastic and/or non-linear processing, but if you're just going to try to listen to it through an ideally-neutral stereo system, then high-bitrate MP3 is perfectly fine.
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