For me CDs were never a replacement or alternative to LPs, so a lot of these CD versus vinyl arguments are historical wrong. CDs were a replacement for cassette tapes, which for me was a no brainer. I had good luck with R2R recorders but I never had a cassette tape player that did not eat some of my tapes. Whether in the home or in my car, it was always a pain when the cassette tapes would jam or get destroyed in the players. Both cassettes and CDs were compact , portable and allowed mobile playback. But by contrast, cassettes were fragile and CDs were indestructible.
As for sound there was never any comparison between CDs and cassette tapes, just like there is no sonic comparison between CDs and vinyl. Analog tape and vinyl provide a superior facsimile of real instruments and music than CDs, though that gap is closing.
And it is not about analog versus digital, for when I digitize my LPs to DSD128, you cannot tell which is analog or which is digital. Back in the day some of the most impressive LPs were Telarc’s digital Soundstream recordings. Fast forward to today and you may find some of the most impressive digital recordings are the Reference Recordings HRx discs. Of course these are 24/176.4 high resolution digital instead of just 16/44.1 CD resolution. Well IMO audiophiles and music lovers are always better served by analog or digital studio masters, than some other downsampled or converted format.
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Topic - I love CDs - audiozorro 07:06:18 03/21/12 (9)
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