>I collect vinyl. [...], but I have found one very interesting effect to my listening: having to physically put the album on the turntable, and flip it over, has made me far more attentive to the music.
I'm not debating you but just mentioning how I ultimately came to the opposite conclusion: the limitations of physical media like vinyl and cassettes put an artificial ceiling on my music enjoyment. I wrote a previous comment about digital libraries revealing my true preferences for music:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13572752
I like to sit for hours with expensive headphones to study & analyze lots of music (for example compare and contrast tracks) and flipping vinyl records prevents that in-depth exploration.
I'm not debating you but just mentioning how I ultimately came to the opposite conclusion: the limitations of physical media like vinyl and cassettes put an artificial ceiling on my music enjoyment. I wrote a previous comment about digital libraries revealing my true preferences for music: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13572752
I like to sit for hours with expensive headphones to study & analyze lots of music (for example compare and contrast tracks) and flipping vinyl records prevents that in-depth exploration.