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Title: Ensa P1 ? - Does This Make Sense in 2026?
Post by: 328 on March 04, 2026, 11:38:44 PM
https://www.msn.com/en-us/technology/consumer-electronics/photos-ensa-p1-concept-revives-album-listening-with-disc-shaped-music-cartridges/ss-AA1XxRFA

This thing showed up in a click-bait feed.
So I searched it.
It apparently is a real concept project.

Frankly, I don't get it.
Seems like anti-innovation to me

And I enjoy endless playlist browsing
It tickles my ADHD gene.
Title: Re: Ensa P1 ? - Does This Make Sense in 2026?
Post by: Gutbucket on March 05, 2026, 04:11:52 PM
I just see a digital audio player using proprietary read-only memory cards floating atop a nostalgic marketing angle.  IMO they shoulda made it look like a cassette, not that it would prevent its inevitable market failure.

The train left the station a long time ago.
Title: Re: Ensa P1 ? - Does This Make Sense in 2026?
Post by: rocksuitcase on March 05, 2026, 04:58:27 PM
nooooooooooooooooooooo!
why have a different physical medium than the original one?
overthinking is what it is
Title: Re: Ensa P1 ? - Does This Make Sense in 2026?
Post by: nulldogmas on March 05, 2026, 05:42:00 PM
why have a different physical medium than the original one?

I, for one, will only listen to music that's stored in alternating waves of air pressure.
Title: Re: Ensa P1 ? - Does This Make Sense in 2026?
Post by: rocksuitcase on March 05, 2026, 08:54:55 PM
why have a different physical medium than the original one?

I, for one, will only listen to music that's stored in alternating waves of air pressure.
OBVIOUSLY I Meant vinyl. But, ^^^^^^^ hmmmmmmmmmmmm     ;D
Is this what Bob Weir meant when he said they were seeking "heavy air"?
Title: Re: Ensa P1 ? - Does This Make Sense in 2026?
Post by: nulldogmas on March 05, 2026, 10:05:43 PM
why have a different physical medium than the original one?

I, for one, will only listen to music that's stored in alternating waves of air pressure.
OBVIOUSLY I Meant vinyl. But, ^^^^^^^ hmmmmmmmmmmmm     ;D
Is this what Bob Weir meant when he said they were seeking "heavy air"?

And music sounded better
Recorded on rings of ice
And as the songs turned to water
We couldn't help but cry

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmMezgEyl5A
 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmMezgEyl5A)
Title: Re: Ensa P1 ? - Does This Make Sense in 2026?
Post by: jefflester on March 05, 2026, 11:18:09 PM
why have a different physical medium than the original one?

I, for one, will only listen to music that's stored in alternating waves of air pressure.
OBVIOUSLY I Meant vinyl. But, ^^^^^^^ hmmmmmmmmmmmm     ;D
Is this what Bob Weir meant when he said they were seeking "heavy air"?
Thick, Bobby said "thick air."
Title: Re: Ensa P1 ? - Does This Make Sense in 2026?
Post by: rocksuitcase on March 06, 2026, 09:49:15 AM
why have a different physical medium than the original one?

I, for one, will only listen to music that's stored in alternating waves of air pressure.
OBVIOUSLY I Meant vinyl. But, ^^^^^^^ hmmmmmmmmmmmm     ;D
Is this what Bob Weir meant when he said they were seeking "heavy air"?
Thick, Bobby said "thick air."
Thick- Heavy- 6 of one half a dozen or another    >:D
Title: Re: Ensa P1 ? - Does This Make Sense in 2026?
Post by: 328 on March 11, 2026, 09:45:30 PM
The stacks sound very different in thick air.
To me?
He may have been thinking/feeling the Summer evening gigs where everyone felt connected, enveloped in humidity, and the sound carried better for the density of it.

Geez. Thanks for that flashback
For a split second I could look around and see it, hear it
St.Stephen- > Morning Dew ....