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In Reply to: RE: 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
Edits: 07/18/16Follow Ups:
Luminator,
That was a nice post. Came straight from the heart!
Big Wham! fan here- Lummy.
I still want that Andromeda spinner!
I go back to the FIRST GENERATION players sold here in the 'States. That's gotta be about 1983.
My Magnevox FD-1000 is (still have it) an early 14 bit player.
The cassettes I made for 'samples' sold probably 4 or 5 CD players to folks who were simply blown away that MY cassettes sounded better than ANY factory cassette they owned. The car kid next door couldn't look me in the eye. My HONDA with about 4 watts and 4" speakers sounded BETTER than his Megabuck Car Stereo with all the crap he could add-on. And the difference was MY cassettes burned from some of my first CDs.
Supertramp, 'Crime of the Century' never sounded so good. My speakers at the time were some Magnepan MG-1 probably driven at that time by my long-gone Carver Cube.
Too much is never enough
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