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That Was News Back In 1987

Posted by Luminator (A) on July 17, 2016 at 23:56:29

In Reply to: Moon posted by bigshow on July 17, 2016 at 08:02:33:

My high school classmates and I started to get CD players in 1987. Yeah, those early CD players had their pluses and minuses. But even with those pluses and minuses, CD playback, at least for the popular music we listened to and loved, was superior to cassette and vinyl.

Really, it's only the Stereotypical Audiophiles, because they've been fed propaganda, falsehoods, and dogma, who have been blind and deaf to CD and file-based audio.

On some Friday after school in October 1986, I went with my friend/classmate Barbara to San Francisco's downtown. After browsing Headlines, she and I went to some small record store, probably between 4th and 5th Streets. Wham's cover of "Where Did Your Heart Go?" was on the charts. Even though I did not, at that point, have a CD player, I purchased this CD of Wham's Music From The Edge Of Heaven. Sound is thin and 2-dimensional, but at least it doesn't have the grain, hiss, warped imaging, wiry treble, and awful upper-midrange warble of vinyl copies.

We've long known that music lies in those bits. It's up to the honest equipment and accessories, to retrieve all that wonderful music from the bits.

Yep, this is the actual CD, bought with Barbara enthusiastically looking over my shoulder, and which had subsequently gone through tens of my other friends/classmates' hands. It has provided so much joy, for almost 30 years now.

Especially with used CDs available so cheaply, Stereotypical Audiophiles need to get their heads out of the sand, and finally glom onto the format which has sounded best, and fostered such a connection to the music.

-Lummy The Monster

• Where Did Your Heart Go?   (Open in New Window)

Edits: 07/18/16

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