It feels as though we’ve now accepted streaming and welcomed it into the hi-fi community. Fears were real, and often founded, that streaming would replace physical media to detrimental effect, offering up inferior performance in return for perceived convenience.
In many ways, though, it has helped us fall in love again with those cumbersome old discs; being able to throw music from your palm to your speakers can be wonderful, but our desire to fall for an album’s cover and actually hold our music has far from been quelled.