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RE: This Was Said About Vinyl 40 Years Ago.......

I certainly won't argue with your preferences but the people who claimed vinyl was obsolete were in complete denial of the appeal of vinyl. Or were just oblivious to it. This is very much an apples to oranges comparison. Vinyl is a storage medium, CD players are medium playback devices. Totally different. NOTE I did NOT say *CDs* were obsolete.

I said dedicated CD players are obsolete and gave the reasons why.

Vinyl will likely never become obsolete in our lifetimes because nothing will likely fully replace it and offer more on top of it.

Universal optical disc readers and DACs do EVERYTHING a CD player does and more. And you only need one. You don't have to replace an entire collection of LPs, just one CD player.

If you LIKE dedicated CD players instead of universal players that is inarguable. But you no longer *need* a CD player to do pretty much exactly what a CD player does using a universal disc player/reader. You do need the records to do exactly what each record does.

People who were claiming vinyl obsoletion either weren't aware of the nuances of audiophile media or were just being tribalistic toxic fanboys spewing rhetoric in the old and boring debates of digital vs analog/ digital media vs vinyl rivalries

Dedicated CD players are obsolete except in the fulfillment of certain audiophile fetishes and mythologies. So with that caveat I stand by what I said.

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