"Rob" wrote in message
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On 04/03/2011 17:29, David Looser wrote:
"Keith wrote in message
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"David 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';

Hardly "one-time", CD is a robust medium.


I think it had its uses, and now its time is up. 'One-time' means write
once, not read.

I find it more than curious that some vinyl fans are so keen to dismiss the
CD as "obsolete". As though the CD is the "enemy" which has to be got rid of
as quickly as possible, even though the "replacements" of the CD are also
digital. Oh, and I don't think Keith meant what you say he did by "one-time
'carrier".

it has been superceded by mass storage of 'virtual music' on hard disks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

Mass storage is useless for selling and transporting and individual
albums.

Ha! Have a look at 'iTunes'. Where do you think that music is kept, sold
from and stored to?

And how do you think it gets onto the iTunes servers? by ripping from CDs
that's how.

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

You mean like turntables were 25 years ago?


Funny you should say that. Turntables and records, are, in fact still
produced.


You missed the point. CD players are only as obsolete now as turntables
were 25 years ago.


Yes, it has an oddness. Fact remains though, however uncomfortable that
makes you feel.

The complaint is often made that all CD players sound alike, that's because
they don't sound of anything. A good analogy is that all plate-glass windows
look alike. You can't see a plate-glass window because all you can see is
what's on the other side, you can't hear a CD player because all you can
hear is the recording. If vinyl sounds "better" to you it's because you
*can* hear, and like, the distortions that that medium adds to the sound,
just as some might prefer the "look" of a medieval window. If you prefer it
fine, but don't fool yourself that you are aren't expressing a preference
for distortion.

/snip remainder of stuck-in-80s stuff/

Better than being stuck in the '70s :-)

David.