JazzMastaJim

...And this thread suddenly wakes up from a 13-year coma. LOL! I'm in a Classic Rock cover band named Tin Whiskers. We're all over 60; we were 50-ish when we started the band in 2004.

The inevitable crackles & pops in even the best vinyl always drove me crazy, and I found the distortion & altered frequency response near the center of the record almost as annoying. I have discs that are half-speed mastered and recorded direct-to-disc and both fall short, in my experience. So, needless to say, I prefer a well-mixed or well-remixed CD to vinyl. However, I completely agree that a good amp driving good speakers beats the daylights out of headphones. There's just something about cranking up the volume and actually feeling the music!

I'm #3 & #4, except: #3 is a home-built 486/66 PC with a VGA display, 64MB of RAM and 11GB distributed over two (2) hard drives. Who knows? I may need that parallel-cable, 2-port MIDI interface again someday, not to mention the Cakewalk Pro Audio 9 (which I actually got to work on my Win10 notebook, so maybe not so much); #4 is something that, after many upgrades over many years, I have mostly gotten over. But I definitely obsessively back up everything music-related before any upgrades (which you should do anyway, right?).

Hey, someone else who still uses an MMT-8! I use mine just to send program & patch changes to my keys when playing live. It's a lot faster than using the keyboards' built-in methods. Because of the way I use it, I haven't run into any memory shortage, but I would imagine that an MP3 player would work, as long as the data is saved as uncompressed (e. g., .wav) files. Compressed files like MP3s would almost certainly destroy the data.