Ridikzappa 10:12 Fri Aug 24
Is the Compact Disc dead?
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I love owning my favourite musical artists work on CD. I am addicted to collecting them, having something tangible that I can open, read the sleeve notes, close and file carefully back on to the shelf. However I have been told CDs are a dying format and will soon be obsolete and everyone will listen to music via souless MP3 files. To me that sounds very sad. Should I wipe my knob across the PC screen & move on?
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Ashy
11:26 Tue Aug 28
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The CD Market is not dying as far as classical music is concerned and I can't see it going for some time yet.
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appyhammer78
11:13 Tue Aug 28
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How do you get those branded?
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BRANDED
10:35 Tue Aug 28
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24 bit files is the way to go. You can hear the trombonists farting.
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Ayris
10:14 Tue Aug 28
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Hopefully vinyl is still surviving…OVO
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COOL HAND LUKE
9:44 Tue Aug 28
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The future will be about 'access' to stuff, not ownership, so yes, the cd is dying.
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stomper
10:29 Sun Aug 26
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Shellac is your friend.
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appyhammer78
10:12 Sun Aug 26
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digital to analogue converter
As analogue is supposed to be the messiah but to be honest I couldn't tell any difference
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Ridikzappa
10:09 Sun Aug 26
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appyhammer78 10:01 Sun Aug 26
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What is an 'external DAC'?
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appyhammer78
10:01 Sun Aug 26
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Know what you mean mate, purely for storage I only keep the cd booklet , disc and that's it .....put them in one of those dj metal cases that holds 1000 discs ....cases go in the bin....take up too much room otherwise and keeps them tidy
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Ridikzappa
9:58 Sun Aug 26
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I believe by owning a CD you actually own a physical enitity of the music rather than a virtual file somewhere on a computer hard disc and with that you surely 'own' the music you paid for and with that you get the satisfaction of at least having 'something' tangible?
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appyhammer78
9:54 Sun Aug 26
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I buy album cd's but on eBay for 99p - rip them using iTunes AAC 320 VBR and play on my iPad though apple tv - sounds great
Haven't owned a cd player in years as there really is no need and you have instant access to any song you own in matter of seconds by using iPod etc
I recently bought an external dac to give me analogue and it sounded no different to digital
Tell you what does make a difference, decent speakers with some quality speaker cable
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Claret Badger
9:45 Sun Aug 26
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do robots dream of electric sheep?
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Ridikzappa
9:39 Sun Aug 26
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'Digital is replication' = all very Bladerunner-esque
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Claret Badger
9:03 Sun Aug 26
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your ear is analogue
end of
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OK-Guy
4:57 Sun Aug 26
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purest medium is Analogue, eveything is digitally recorded from that.
mp3 is pretty naff compared with Hi-Res, WAV or Atrac-Advance Lossless but none of theses get close to the Red-Book standard of CD (I'm talking Mastersound, SACD or HD disc).
Turntable is best followed very closely by hi-end CD-Players... in fact many now rate the Chord Red-Reference CD-Player above all apart from the very best turntables.
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LSD T
4:29 Sat Aug 25
Analogue is perfect (oops posted early)
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Digital is replication at set parameters limiting its quality.
Theoretically digital too can be perfect, however so far with CD's at least, it hasn't been.
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LSD T
4:26 Sat Aug 25
Analogue is perfect
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Digital is replication
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Keep dreaming
4:25 Sat Aug 25
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Cult of Bob and 1964:
I'd does not make any difference if the digitally recording or playback had a frequency range of a billion Hz.
The problem lies within the sampling frequency that the CD players and recorders are built upon.
And I promise you both, analog sound beats the hell out of a CD and I sure can hear it.
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LSD T
4:14 Sat Aug 25
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Analogue vs Digital.
Some people understand, others don't.
MP3's are the only good to come from the digital leap, however it ought to remembered that it was the first compression technique developed.
Moving to CD from vinyl was forced onto us, no one who knew anything worth knowing wanted it to happen.
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Billy Blagg
4:02 Sat Aug 25
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No, start buying vinyl instead. If you like to hold things, read things and file them away to play later the LP's are really the only answer. I can't read anything on a CD cover now.
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Darby_
11:28 Sat Aug 25
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I used to buy second hand vinyl just because I couldn't afford CDs and I was surprised when I discovered that I preferred the sound. It's not about the 'sound quality' being better. It just feels like real music.
I've never really loved CDs. I think I prefer the old days of cassettes.
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