Why, it's the Model T Ford made the trouble, made the people wanna go, wanna git, wanna git, wanna git up n' go... (obligatory Beatles reference for the thread - NAILED IT! )
That is what is called MARKETING HYPE... They also promoted CDs as being "practically indestructible"...
Exactly- they had a sales bonanza as people made the transition and replaced their vinyl collection with vastly overpriced CD's therefore raking in BILLIONS from old catalogue material that suddenly had become hot again.
Back on topic, The Compact Disc was a fantastic leap forward, by any measure. Had it not been adopted, we may have progressed to digital, but on a compact cassette. (analog thinking) CD recreating music by reading pits on a fast spinning disc with a focused beam of light was revolutionary to the masses, and got us thinking in a digital realm. Listen to a stream of your favorite (properly) re-mastered music at 24/192, and then compare to some of the older formats, (LP, 8-track, cassette, MD, DCC, etc.) It's pretty impressive how far we've come. (and I'm a die-hard vinyl fan)
So, just how many times did a laser looking at the surface of a plastic disc, change the performance of it, hmmm? Now, try that with a Crosley turntable and Gramps' vinyls.
i get what you are saying, and i understand what you mean, maybe if i said the biggest crime against humanity where no one died because of it. (at least as far as i know).
After years of being anti cd and buying people's vinyl cast offs, I now embrace both formats with varying results.
That's not an "ideal;" it's marketing. Huge difference. The only "ideal" behind the compact disc format was capitalism.
Exactly. What record companies, etc. care about the most is the business part and what business means is money.
I don't really have any complaints about the sound quality as compared to vinyl. My main gripe with CDs is that the size ruins the impact of the cover art and makes liner notes/lyrics, etc too small for me to read without magnifying glasses.
I have 5 CDs that don't even work anymore. Visually they look perfect, shiny, no fingerprints, like NOS brand new. All mess up towards the last couple of songs?? No idea why. There must be a reason. 1. a Japanese D. Fagan - Nightfly (it messed up 2/3rds the way through. 2. a David Crosby - messed up towards the end 3. a Jimi Hendrix - messed up towards the end Forgot the other two CDs/artists but one of the two is also a recently acquired 'used' Japanese pressed CD that looks perfectly like new. Those CDs 'always' mess up every play in the same place. All my other CDs play just fine. Some CDs sound horrid compared to LPs. And just bore you to tears and put you to sleep. But some CDs sound exactly the same as the LPs. And some CDs sound much better than the LPs. I just listen to the best-sounding one. I prefer analog. I like many CDs. The original goal of the Compact Disc I think was to just make tons of money. TODAY is the 'age of CDs' for serious M- CD album collectors!!
I'm still buying CDs after 38 years. I can't read the liners anymore but I still take great pleasure in listening to them. I had a great time building a jazz and classical collection over the years. And I've got all my favorite rock, blues, and soul on CD. In the case of classical it was great to be able to buy so many comprehensive box sets for very little money. I'm a happy camper!
