Great news for streaming services and vinyl pressing plants, less so for download stores. Such anecdotal evidence aligns with Stateside music industry stats published this week that in Q1 – Q2 of 2014 downloads are down 13%, vinyl is up 40% and streaming is up 42%. It’s not hard to to see why: $12, the cost of a ONE lossless download, buys them a month’s access to 18 million (lossy-encoded) tunes at Spotify. When the conversation turns to FLAC and the cost of each download their enthusiasm comes to a halt.
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These friends aren’t immune to the charms of better sound quality and can see the value in a $1500 portable rig like mine. They’ll admit to it being a great deal better sounding than their Apple wotsit or Android thingo. Several have listened to the AK120 firing into KEF M500 headphones and found themselves seriously impressed by the sound quality. Despite the A&K GUI not being a slick as your average smartphone these guys (and girls) happily swallow the notion that better hardware can solicit better sound. Non-audiophile pals spying this portable setup are naturally curious about the what, the why and the how. The AK120 has revolving door access to the larger locally-hosted music library. The content that sits on this South Korean digital audio player (DAP) therefore changes on a weekly basis.
For out-of-house listening I take to an Astell&Kern AK120 whose internal storage can only accommodate 256Gb at any one time I can’t have access to everything always. It’s my local music library from which I feed various D/A converters over USB. Almost 2TB of FLAC sits on an Antipodes music server at Darko HQ in Sydney.
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