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In Reply to: RE: Ironic, no? posted by jusbe on November 22, 2014 at 03:35:16
I take your point. My gut reaction would be to stock up on CDs but I'm not doing that. This is contrary to my life long strategy of buying in the winter what I need in the summer (metaphorically speaking).1. Most of the CDs I am seeing (in my local area)are not to my liking ... millennial music.
2. I am not seeing the price drops that others are seeing. Most CDs I would like to own are selling for the same price they always have.
3. I've got a really good collection of spectacular sounding CDs but they are in NO WAY representative of the bulk of what's out there ... loudness wars. My preference is for full dynamic range.
4. Some CDs I own are recorded so poorly (brick walled) that they are only good for hard copy back up for my Ipod (192kbps MP3).
5. IMHO ... Streaming is a better mouse trap than CDs ... rent vice buy an album ... just like movies. Only buy the must haves that would be worth owning a high res copy.
6. I've never felt an emotional tie to CDs like I do towards vinyl.
If you understand, things are just as they are; if you do not understand, things are just as they are.
--Zen Proverb
Edits: 11/22/14Follow Ups:
My CD harvesting is primarily of classical, jazz and other, like Condorsat. Essentially non-pop.
There were (are) lots of discs of outstanding performances that I have missed. I also like to buy from specialists like the Piano Music chaps at APR for instance. For new music, I buy vinyl almost exclusively.
CDs are certainly not vinyl, but they can sound really good, in a good (read mature, probably R2R) digital playback system. I'm not into PC audio or streaming at all, yet. When TIDAL reaches NZ, I may change my mind (but not my DAC).
Big J
"... only a very few individuals understand as yet that personal salvation is a contradiction in terms."
CDs have proved to be a good investment for me. A ready-made backup for what I rip to hard drives. I only do classical, jazz and other full dynamic range, non-compressed music.
Yes ... that's the key there.
It depends on what you listen too. Jazz and Classical CDs tend to be good examples of digital done right.
Unfortunately ... they are not being carried at my local record stores and the added cost of S&H is a deterrent to me buying much.
Mostly I listen to Jazz & Classical on Spotify with some occasional purchases of recordings that really catch my ear and want to hear on the mains rig in high res.
If you understand, things are just as they are; if you do not understand, things are just as they are.
--Zen Proverb
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