Is Music dying?

Mr Peabody said:
Kenwood made some great tuners. The last tuner I had in my main system was a Kenwood KT-3300d a FM only tuner. At one time I owned the entire 3300d series, integrated and CDP. I believe the KA-3300 was the first integrated amp to have a built-in DAC. At the time the idea didn't seem to take off, look at it now.
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All snobs aside, Kenwood made some really good gear. Accuphase was started with ex-Kenwood engineers.
 
Interesting, part of my issue may be Tidal. I knew a new Lamb of God album was released today, it didn't show on the new releases or even under Metal, I did find it when I searched their name. I may have to find a backup new release list. Or consider a new service.
 
I listen to the car radio all of the time. Especially when you're close to the transmitter, the sound is fantastic.

Mostly public radio, and not only because I love jazz and classical music. My favorites are those funded by listeners and donors, with no NPR involvement. College stations are pretty easy to find when on a road trip, the downside being that most of them have a relatively small coverage area. But they're one of my favorite new music discovery tools, for sure.

I play albums that I have downloaded from Qobuz to my phone for the stretches with no signal. I'm planning a road trip out west this summer, and I think I have about 30 albums loaded up so far.

When I was working, AM news radio was indispensable for news, traffic and weather updates.
 
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Mr Peabody said:
Interesting, part of my issue may be Tidal. I knew a new Lamb of God album was released today, it didn't show on the new releases or even under Metal, I did find it when I searched their name. I may have to find a backup new release list. Or consider a new service.
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Qobuz is the bomb for me. I kicked Tidal to the curb after having both Tidal andcQobuz simultaneously for an extended time and picking the clear winner for me.
 
As antennas go, the Magna Dynalab ST-2 is superb at a very reasonable price. I have it sitting behind the shade in the window of my music room. It pulls in all kinds of stations at very good quality levels. I know of some people who have mounted these on top of towers, the roof of their homes, etc. and have gotten ridiculously good reception. Being that they have a coaxial output it is easy to run the connection as long (or as short) as you need.

Magna Dynalabs and McIntosh still offer very high-grade tuners.
 
Randy Myers said:
As antennas go, the Magna Dynalab ST-2 is superb at a very reasonable price. I have it sitting behind the shade in the window of my music room. It pulls in all kinds of stations at very good quality levels. I know of some people who have mounted these on top of towers, the roof of their homes, etc. and have gotten ridiculously good reception. Being that they have a coaxial output it is easy to run the connection as long (or as short) as you need.

Magna Dynalabs and McIntosh still offer very high-grade tuners.
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Most radio stations broadcast at mp3 if you are lucky and even worse. Many of our stations are owned by Hubbard and the sound quality is total crap but no one seems to care. Pandora free service is better sounding if that gives you an idea. Popular radio used to play LP's then CD and now compressed files that mp3 would be an improvement. They're not struggling to remain relevant they are rolling over and playing dead. PBS and some college stations may be an exception. That limits your selection.
 
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