Also, why do people still buy them?
Also, why do people still buy them?
part time poster wrote:
Also, why do people still buy them?
I buy them constantly, as recent as this week. It's a superior delivery of audio, that's the reason. When music is recorded in high definition as it is now, the delivery service most able to "hold on" to that sound is a CD. Streaming services, youtube, etc, do not stream in lossless quality. There are some bands that will distribute their music on bandcamp or something similar and allow you to download in lossless format (FLAC and ALAC), but they ALL still put out physical CDs. Combine with high end headphones or high end speakers, and you're getting the realist reproduction of the music.
I'm thinking around 2005. Then I got an iPod. Now I use Spotify.
part time poster wrote:
Also, why do people still buy them?
Because they want to CDeez nuts
I haven't bought one in probably 10 years. They don't pay anything anymore. Mostly I go for dividend stocks now.
part time poster wrote:
Also, why do people still buy them?
I have a 2001 car so I still have to burn music to CDs to listen. Ironically when I had a 1997 car with a cassette player I could hook my iPhone up to it.
Moby Dick wrote:
part time poster wrote:Also, why do people still buy them?
I buy them constantly, as recent as this week. It's a superior delivery of audio, that's the reason. When music is recorded in high definition as it is now, the delivery service most able to "hold on" to that sound is a CD. Streaming services, youtube, etc, do not stream in lossless quality. There are some bands that will distribute their music on bandcamp or something similar and allow you to download in lossless format (FLAC and ALAC), but they ALL still put out physical CDs. Combine with high end headphones or high end speakers, and you're getting the realist reproduction of the music.
This. Always funny to see kids using $200 headphones to listen to their iPhones. This is sort of the auditory equivalent of expecting your Honda Civic to be fast because you put racing tires on it.
Also, CDs and vinyl make better gifts. I assume that there is some way to send someone an album on iTunes, but it's nice to have something to open.
A few years, but I hang onto them forever. I still have my original Guns 'n' Roses "Appetite for Destruction" which I purchased in 1987 or 1988. Still sounds great!
GIGO wrote:
Moby Dick wrote:I buy them constantly, as recent as this week. It's a superior delivery of audio, that's the reason. When music is recorded in high definition as it is now, the delivery service most able to "hold on" to that sound is a CD. Streaming services, youtube, etc, do not stream in lossless quality. There are some bands that will distribute their music on bandcamp or something similar and allow you to download in lossless format (FLAC and ALAC), but they ALL still put out physical CDs. Combine with high end headphones or high end speakers, and you're getting the realist reproduction of the music.
This. Always funny to see kids using $200 headphones to listen to their iPhones. This is sort of the auditory equivalent of expecting your Honda Civic to be fast because you put racing tires on it.
I don't blame them, earbuds are the equivalent to having a honda civic with no tires at all.
CD collection's are cool. Great to have in your car and have a passenger go through them and decide what to listen to.
Last CD I bought was Painting With by Animal Collective, early October
GIGO wrote:
Moby Dick wrote:I buy them constantly, as recent as this week. It's a superior delivery of audio, that's the reason. When music is recorded in high definition as it is now, the delivery service most able to "hold on" to that sound is a CD. Streaming services, youtube, etc, do not stream in lossless quality. There are some bands that will distribute their music on bandcamp or something similar and allow you to download in lossless format (FLAC and ALAC), but they ALL still put out physical CDs. Combine with high end headphones or high end speakers, and you're getting the realist reproduction of the music.
This. Always funny to see kids using $200 headphones to listen to their iPhones. This is sort of the auditory equivalent of expecting your Honda Civic to be fast because you put racing tires on it.
+1
GIGO wrote:
Moby Dick wrote:I buy them constantly, as recent as this week. It's a superior delivery of audio, that's the reason. When music is recorded in high definition as it is now, the delivery service most able to "hold on" to that sound is a CD. Streaming services, youtube, etc, do not stream in lossless quality. There are some bands that will distribute their music on bandcamp or something similar and allow you to download in lossless format (FLAC and ALAC), but they ALL still put out physical CDs. Combine with high end headphones or high end speakers, and you're getting the realist reproduction of the music.
This. Always funny to see kids using $200 headphones to listen to their iPhones. This is sort of the auditory equivalent of expecting your Honda Civic to be fast because you put racing tires on it.
Bingo
Last year on a van ride with my wife's HS team the kids wanted to listen to some of their music instead of the radio. We said, "Ok sure, do you have usb cord? Cause this van doesn't have bluetooth." A 17 year old passed forward a burned mix CD instead! The title was scribbled illegibly in marker. Took me back to the good old days.
I bought one just last week. It was from my favorite band and I want to support them. Plus I want to own a complete set.
I don't buy a lot but still some. I also still burn some. Sometimes its nice to have physical media.
Just found Madonna's Greatest Hits at the Goodwill. $1.49!!
Not sure the last one I bought. My girlfriend has bought me a couple in recent years. I use them in the car, occasionally.
They are cheaper than iTunes, sound quality is better, don't have to deal with Bluetooth signal losses, etc.
2015.
GIGO wrote:
Moby Dick wrote:I buy them constantly, as recent as this week. It's a superior delivery of audio, that's the reason. When music is recorded in high definition as it is now, the delivery service most able to "hold on" to that sound is a CD. Streaming services, youtube, etc, do not stream in lossless quality. There are some bands that will distribute their music on bandcamp or something similar and allow you to download in lossless format (FLAC and ALAC), but they ALL still put out physical CDs. Combine with high end headphones or high end speakers, and you're getting the realist reproduction of the music.
This. Always funny to see kids using $200 headphones to listen to their iPhones. This is sort of the auditory equivalent of expecting your Honda Civic to be fast because you put racing tires on it.
This is a very common myth for some reason. Even musicians and sound engineers have trouble distinguishing 256kbps mp3s from flac on high quality equipment. In this (admittedly small sample), sound engineers even preferred the 320 MP3 to the lossless file more than 50% of the time.
There's no way the average kid can distinguish the 256 MP3 on their iPhone from flac while differences in sound quality between solid and super cheap headphones can actually be verified. Criticizing people for this just makes you look pretentious.
http://www.music.mcgill.ca/~hockman/documents/Pras_presentation2009.pdf