Posted on 03/09/2009 10:08:13 AM PDT by ShadowAce
One of the most significant causes in the decline in CD sales that took place a few years ago was that by 2000, Boomers and Xers had finally finished replacing all their LPs onto CD. For many collections and music listeners, this process took years and accounted for a large number of CDs sold.
“We have all the vinyl we had when we got married over thirty years ago. I still have the old ‘67 Benjamin Miracord ELAC hydraulic cue direct gear drive turntable that works magnificently. It’s coupled to an early 1980’s SONY stack system sufficiently powerful enough to mock a small Earthquake.”
Too cool. My main table is a Thornes 125MkII into vacuum tube powered gear. Long live tubes!!!!!
My wife's old collection of records includes the original "Meet The Beatles" album, in 'High Fidelity'. The album jacket advertises that the recording is also available in stereo.
I know that stereo is nice, but there's still something nostalgic about listening to it the "old" way.
I used SoundForge to convert tapes to mp3.
It took a few days to get it done.
Have you ever put a CD in the microwave oven? Looks cool, but I doubt it will ever play again.
....hiss.....click....hiss
Actually, everything turned out pretty well. I used a decent cassette player when I made the mp3’s.
Ah, vinyl, with your pops, crackles, static, skipping everytime someone moves, warping, non-portability and enormous bulky playback equipment, I knew as soon as I saw this headline it wouldn’t take very long for some wisened luddite to bring you up.
I threw out all my video tapes this weekend and packed up the VCR. I haven’t used it since we got the DVR 3 or so years ago.
I also bought a Popcorn Hour Network Media Tank. It plays everything digitally. I download whatever I want, transfer it to the PCH over the wireless and watch it at my leisure. I also have an extensive DVD collection that I’ve slowly been burning. All that will end up on the PCH too and the DVDs will get packed away.
Within 10 years EVERYTHING will be digital delivery.
CDs were great, but their utility is fast approaching zero. Flash drives can hold up to 80 times more(64gb) and transfer it faster. I suspect only automobile CD players are the only real continuing use for CDs these days.
“You can microwave a pizza on one of these and it will still play perfectly”
What a load of @!$@@. Just like records, CDs SCRATCH. Who’da thunk? Wow! Can’t believe an exposed playing surface could ever be damaged!
I remember right as CDs made it big-time late ‘80s “the Big Chill” CD was a big player in the theater I worked in (along with Ghostbusters, etc) as background music. I worked there about a year and the CD was skipping over parts about 5x during play. That was just the beginning of seeing the lies about CDs.
No longer that great a place, given now you are virtually forced to use PayPal (eBay’s child).
“Ah, vinyl, with your pops, crackles, static, skipping everytime someone moves”
Sounds like someone’s talking about CDs.
Does anyone remember the first music CD you bought? Mine was Famous Blue Raincoat, by Jennifer Warnes
I remember that the very first CD I ever heard was at Radio Shack, and the disc was Slade: Keep Your Hands Off My Power Supply
The Wall, bought the same days as my first CD player. Followed closely by Dark Side of the Moon, Songs From the Wood and the Grand Wazoo. After that I forget.
Enormous bulky, eh? No problem for those with enough room -- my 50 lb. Marantz receiver and Teac reel-to-reel fit just fine in my house. As far as the snap, crackle, and pop of uncared for vinyl is concerned, uncared for CDs suffer the same maladies.
I should have expected there to be an avid CD-hater out there.
Please share your wisdom. Expound on all the "lies about CDs". I'd love to read about how horrible they are, especially in comparison to what they replaced: Reel-to-reel, Vinyl, Cassette and 8-Track tape.
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