Another 'unpostable'!!


"Arny Krueger" wrote in message
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"Keith G" wrote in message

"David Looser" wrote


I'm not happy at using a change in format as the way to
make this communication, especially if that leaves CD as
the "junk" format destined to carry all the
over-compressed rubbish. CD is a good format, I don't
want to see it thrown away that way.

CD is not a good format other than as a disposable
one-time 'carrier';

Statements like this support the widely held belief that you are totally
nuts, Keith.


'Widely held'? Does that mean I'm famous? :-)



it has been superceded by mass
storage of 'virtual music' on hard disks and soon, when
the prices drop, large SS storage devices with cards and
sticks for portability.

Wrong again, it already happened.


Not yet it hasn't - SSDs are well over a pound a Gig from what I have seen,
against summat like 60 quid for 2 TB (WD Caviar Green internal).

(Point me to a cheaper SSD if you know of one!)



Even the players are been
rendered obsolete by the minute playback devices
available today.

You got that right. Portable CD players are falling by the wayside.


And the DVD player has squeezed out the CDP in a lot of households, despite
they can be very kludgy to use with CDs.



The way I see it is, popping CD disks into a player, is
an antiquated practice like playing vinyl but without the
extra benefits you get from vinyl - the better sound,

Better sound? Statements like this support the widely held belief that
you are totally nuts, Keith.


:-)



tactile feedback, artwork, words/notes etc.

The mainstream market cares little about these.


LPs haven't been 'mainstream' for a quarter of a century.