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And today, a large "boxed set" collection like the complete Chicago Symphony Orchestra/Fritz Reiner RCA collection is available on 63CDs for $999 -
or you can download the entire collection as about 12.5Gb of FLAC files. That is less than 3% of the capacity of the below MicroSD card - a tiny storage device that is only 11x15mm - so small that it us difficult to handle and insert and remove from connection ports
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This technology still boggles my mind. Ten years ago I was still using 1.44Mb floppies and transitioning to USB flash drives - and now I have lots of MicroSD cards up to 32Gb and will be getting larger ones soon. Even the 4Tb HDDs in my external B/U drives and NAS will probably be replaced with SSD's within a couple of years.
Even with all of this modern technology, I still get a special pleasure from listening to all kinds of music of various levels of resolution through my
25 y/o, 30 pound Classé Model Seventy Class AB amplifier that is connected via balanced interconnects to my thoroughly modern Topping DX7s DAC. .