Don Pearce wrote:
On Mon, 9 Feb 2009 13:50:07 +0000,
(D.M. Procida) wrote:

Since the CD there has not been a single development that has improved
the sound, so none has been widely adopted by the classical listener.
I think that the convenience of the CD, rather than its sound quality,
has been the major factor in its success. I don't think people are that
bothered about sound quality on the whole.


Probably true for a large part of the market, but not for those I was
talking about.

d
I suppose this is one of the issues that made me ask about the future.
It seems that the way people listen to "classical music" , for want of a
better term, do so in a different way and are being left behind by a
technology that, understandably, caters for the mass market. The way
that mp3 treats sound quality, divides music into 'songs' with silences
between, and catalogues the result (in my experience)makes it a poor
choice for those listeners. I don't think that the CD will survive much
longer, and while I'm sure that "something will turn up" I'm not sure
what it will be.
Roger Thorpe