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RE: onebitaudio

Posted by hiredfox (A) on March 28, 2016 at 03:04:33

In Reply to: RE: onebitaudio posted by vahe on March 26, 2016 at 11:32:16:

Like you, I prefer the absolute security of possessing physical discs. OK, your house can burn down but that apart the discs appear to be sufficiently durable to last for one's lifetime. The earliest CDs in my collection from 1983 are still in 'as-new' condition and play perfectly despite the doom-mongers suggesting they would rot away over time. Well, that's 30 years notched up! The secret or at least one secret is to store them in darkness when not being played.

A big selling point of down-loading must be convenience - certainly not price - but it is doubtful that convenience is much of an issue for most audiophiles. From my experience most have all the time in the world for their beloved hobby. Then there is the issue of what you actually get out of your end of the pipe? Nothing you can do about that whatever happens thereafter. Things have moved on from the old chestnut of "bits are bits".

Another issue is SQ. The best source to follow on the relative merits of SQ derived from downloading or streaming and disc is Martin Colloms who has a very sceptical as well as objective view on these things.

In time of course physical disc are likely to be squeezed out altogether by record labels and the production of disc players will end at which people like you and me are going to be very unhappy. The latter is the biggest threat and one maybe should think seriously about buying a couple of the very best players out there and storing them away for future use or at least stockpiling critical components of existing players for future repair if there are still specialist technicians around who can fix them.

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