We recently received an email from a customer who has pieced together quite a nice little CD based hi-fi system over a period of a year or so. His latest addition was a Rega P1.

The line that stood out to me was "how can a $600 turntable sound more enjoyable than my $XXXX CD player?". What stood out from that statement was "more enjoyable". I wasn't that the listening experience was better, or anything over the top with enthusiasm, but simply "more enjoyable".

This is very interesting as a new format for musical replay ... so rather than store your collection in a potentially vulnerable physical player or hard drive you store it on an Amazon provided online database ...

In my entirely anthropologically-unqualified opinion, I’m certain that a good chunk of the reason behind the vinyl resurgence is the fact that obtaining discs of black wax scratches the obsessive collector itch in many folks...

So we have for some time been watching that treasure of personal music ownership being removed not only from the hands of the consumer but also from the performer. The industry pundits are convinced that our entertainment future is in the cloud, led by the convenience and accessibility of virtual music and video.