"D.M. Procida" wrote in
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Because the selling point you mentioned was their indestructability -
which obviously isn't why *brand new* vinyl has pops and crackles.

It's quite true that CD doesn't suffer from vinyl's pops and crackles,
and I'm pretty sure most people didn't actively like the latter.
However, I am far from convinced that they were that bothered about
them, or indeed about most sonic defects.


This does seem to me to be a particularly pointless argument. Obviously
people differ in what matters to them. No doubt some switched to CD
primarily for reasons of convenience (though since CDs were twice the price
of equivalent LPs in the early years it was an expensive convenience) whilst
others did so primarily for reasons of sound quality. Who is to say how much
of each was important to what proportion of the buying public?, the data
simply doesn't exist. Some people will clearly put up with a good deal of
"snap, crackle and pop", whilst to me it was enough to stop me buying LPs
even before CDs became available.

David.