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I do both. Digital music is way more convenient to initiate, continue, store and take with you -- so I use that the most. But, it's almost too convenient in some cases to the point where I often don't appreciate what is really happening and the music just becomes background noise. Although it's obviously possible, I rarely use digital music to sit and listen to an entire album anymore. On the other hand, when I liste…
I think it's more likely your age group. When you were young listening to tapes on your parents' speakers, didn't it seem to you that kids and teens were much more into music than most adults? I'm 20, I grew up listening to albums on YouTube, never owned a CD, tape, or record. But my experience is and was still exactly what you describe. My friends and I have countdowns on our phones ticking down the days to eagerly-…
Wait, does that still happen or did you just describe what you used to do in the past?
As a music lover and collector on fridays my todo list is filled with numerous entries of new release I scheduled months and weeks in advance. And yet this kind of musical anticipation, exploration and discovery seems to be a rather solitary passion. For most people music has been relegated to background noise it seems. If you and your friends still enjoy and explore music the way you described, that's exceptionally wonderful.
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Manual transmission has clear advantage in responsiveness. Being used to manual, I've just driven an automatic for three days. Despite having 50% more power than my old car, it felt terribly slow because of the gear shift delays.
Try a newer or higher performance automatic. In performance cars you can’t get close to the shift speed!
Even an ancient pre-electronic planetary automatic can be built to shift faster than a human can row gears. Drag racing guys have been doing it forever, to the point that most performance car communities will have a "fastest " and a "fastest manual " if their vehicles were offered with both. Due to shift speed and a few other reasons it's just assumed that a properly set up automatic is going to be faster on the drag strip as long as the vehicle has enough power that the parasitic loss is negligible.
The responsiveness problem comes when you want a downshift and the transmission wasn't expecting it. It takes time to respond, even a DCT has delay in some cases, where a manual transmission is mechanically connected to the driver and thus has effectively zero lag other than whatever tolerances may exist in the various linkages.