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The idea has always been to get at a wide selection of the best available music whenever you want, right?  How nice for you that your available FM stations actually deliver on that score.

For some time, I've basically thought of my system as the least means to acceptable ends, with the ends being great music, to the point where I have been willing to compromise performance to get some comfort during development and use.  So far, vinyl delivers the best fix, then CD.  Sure, FM might beat CDs IF it was consistently good here; rather, it is consistently bad in terms of both program and broadcast quality, so no practical sense in going overboard for the odd gems.

But the kicker for FM, of course, is the programming.  I have maybe 2,000 LPs, and only a few CDs, so my surprises are limited to what I can mine from the best performances I am +/- familiar with, or I can pay my money and take my chances on new material that often as not winds up like the Rosbaud Debacle (qv).

Basically, you just can't beat FM for the wonderful element of surprise, which is probably the ultimate kick, IMO.

Best regards,
Paul S

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