I went through a phase when I first got out of college back in the early 90's where I bought every CD I could get my hands on, about 800 in all. That was around the time every artist in the world began releasing "greatest hits" CD's and various artist compilations took off.
Rick Springfield, Survivor, Foreigner, an endless supply of greatest hits of the 70's and 80's... You name the cheesy band or song and I've got a copy. I too am planning on ripping and encoding to FLAC. I also was of the same mindset that I would only rip a portion of my collection. But myself and the wife mostly listen to the SB in random mode and I don't find myself running to change the song even when the cheesiest bubblegum pop song comes on. In fact we find ourselves much more nastalgic when we hear old popular stuff than I would have ever believed we would be (if it's disco, which still mostly turns my stomach, my wife will swat my hand if I try to grab the remote.) I've found myself tolerating or even liking music that I actually despised back when it was new, popular and on the radio all the time. Needless to say the SB has changed my tune and I'll probably rip everything. I see nothing wrong with indulging in mindless pop/rock from years ago every now then (although I'd never admit it to my friends.) -- jtfields ------------------------------------------------------------------------ jtfields's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1584 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=26016 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
