
(5) A lot of artists are starting to do the whole LP + mp3/FLAC thing, and I have no desire to start collecting LPs. (4) There's a lot of stuff that's difficult for me to easily acquire where I live, and I've been able to find some stuff that I've had a lot of difficulty tracking down in brick-and-mortar stores on Amazon mp3 and iTunes. (3) I need less shit in my life in general. (2) I have a lot of books, and I'm not a fan of eBook readers, so I plan on acquiring many more books than I already own, and I don't want to maintain two physical media collections. I buy a CD, rip it into iTunes, and place it on my CD shelves, where it sits forever. (1) I'm 22, so I'm of the generation that sees CDs as nothing more than a storage medium. Most of the new music I buy is from Amazon mp3, although I'm currently searching for some good online stores that sell everything in FLAC. My goal is to eventually have as few physical CDs as possible, and I want all of my digital music to sit on two hard drives. I sold off a chunk of the collection in two batches, and I'm getting ready to sell off a third. The first step in this process has been culling my CD collection. Recently, I've decided to go (mostly) digital. The majority of posters on ILM seem to prefer their music on LPs and CDs, and I definitely see the appeal in doing that-up until very recently, I had to have everything in CD- but I think there might be a few others who, like me, are starting to purchase most of their music digitally. I'm not talking about buying a CD or LP and then digitizing it, but buying music natively in mp3, FLAC, or some other format. Don't get me wrong it produces nice sound, but I wouldn't ever buy any A&K product again.There's been some talk about digital music collections in the past on threads like The Data Migration Thread, but I wanted to start a new thread! dedicated solely to those of us who are actively building up (legally acquired) digital music collections. Hell, mine serves as a car media player to be perfectly honest. This is one purchase that I really regret. You're paying for "shiny" and "brand name" more so than anything else. While it looks nice and all the interface is very unresponsive and a noticeable lag really throws you off. Hell, mine serves as a car media player t… If you are after a music player I would side on the AK Junior side. The Cowon x7 looks more like a multi media player which has a hard drive rather than flash storage. The AK Junior is a dedicated music player with a Wolfson DAC capable of driving more demanding headphones. I would say the sound quality is definitely on par if not better than the Cowon x7. It can also take a 200gb card as I have seen videos showing the test with A&K. Hi, I am currently using a 128gb card and it works fine. The AK Junior is a dedicated music player with a Wolfson DAC capable of driving more demanding headp… To learn more about how and for what purposes Amazon uses personal information (such as Amazon Store order history), please visit our Privacy Notice. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie Preferences, as described in the Cookie Notice. Click ‘Customise Cookies’ to decline these cookies, make more detailed choices, or learn more. Third parties use cookies for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalised ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. This includes using first- and third-party cookies, which store or access standard device information such as a unique identifier. If you agree, we’ll also use cookies to complement your shopping experience across the Amazon stores as described in our Cookie Notice. We also use these cookies to understand how customers use our services (for example, by measuring site visits) so we can make improvements. We use cookies and similar tools that are necessary to enable you to make purchases, to enhance your shopping experiences and to provide our services, as detailed in our Cookie Notice.
