Moving on...

The pace of the digital revolution is increasing every day. It seems just like yesterday that CD were the latest greatest thing and now - well I am getting rid of my collection - replaced by iTunes/POD/Phone.

For those of us of a certain age I can still remember the first demo of CD technology on Tomorrows World - it was amazing they could smear jam over the little disk, scrape it off and then the disk would still produce the music again. Now this is something you could never do with LP. Of course what they didn't say was that the sound from a CD would be inferior to the LP but this was the latest and greatest and lest be honest they were very good - but we move on.

And now we are moving into a cloud world. I am thinking about visiting the States, the first time in 3 years, and now I am concerned about whether I will have the same 3G coverage as I do at home (I think the answer is no but that is another story). I must keep connected to the cloud at all costs. I now blog, share content cruise the highways and byways of the cloud and I see this as a right rather than a privilege. It effects where I stay, does the hotel have wi.fi ? is now a very important consideration. I must keep contact with the cloud.

I say I but my wife is the same. We text, browse and consume things through the cloud. The next will be tweeting - more of this next week I feel. In short life moves on and, in the first world, at an ever increasing pace. An yet some things are not better because of this just different. What next?

Simon Marchini LRPS

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LP....

Oh the its the small things - such as the click and crackle from a speaker just before the music comes out when listening to an LP. I had this small pleasure this afternoon when my son was showing off his new turntable he has just bought. A turntable - how retro - only is it? Or is it the way forward. For some one who grew up collecting LP's it was amazing to hear the sound quality- something we had taken for granted but now have lost with the world of downloads and 'digital' quality and its restrictions placed on 'sampling rate'. There is nothing like the full sound - even if the song itself is crap - you really don't know what you have lost until you are reunited with the real thing.

This is not a cry for the return to the 'old days' but rather an acknowledgement that there is a price to pay for convenience. I would not swap my iPhone for anything but you do have to settle for a second class sound - their is a price to pay and that price is the sound. Are well at least we now have the choice - we can still get vinyl if and when you want experience the quality - but for the rest of your life you can live with the convenience of the digital world. I guess this is the best of both worlds.