Reasons You Should Still Be Buying CDs!
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- Опубликовано: 9 фев 2025
- Steven shares his view on why we should still be buying CDs!
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Great video. I have roughly 1000 CDs. Began collecting in the late 80s and haven't stopped. For some time now my niche is owning AAD CDs. A format that I grew up with and love.
Physically media won’t go away, it’s more alive than ever. Music, movies. 📼 📀 💿
I hope that you're right.
Another point is that I can sometimes put on a CD and rediscover songs that I may have not liked back in the day but for some reason really appeal to me now. Part of the problem is that it's primarily a 1 song market now, where as from the late 60s until streaming took hold music consumption was album oriented. To a large degree album appreciation is a lost art for the younger generation. Too many people, quite literally, don't know what they're missing.
I've had a wonderful time collecting CDs during the vinyl revival. I have over 4000 now.
4000 ... impressive. You must have a lot of happy memories.
Hi Steven, I still have about fifty CD’s and two Sony players and a CD Walkman. I totally agree with you about the physical appearance, sound quality and the art work and the liner notes inside.
Seven years ago I owned about 1200 or more Compact Disc but I moved to a smaller apartment and I thought it might be small to house them. I was so wrong and I regret that I gave them away to friends and the library. Some of them can’t even be found on my streaming services.
I always go in my art room where they are and take them out and either look at them ( memories ) or play them and I’am transported to various places and events in my life.
I’am so glad that I took them with me when I moved. Thank you for your account on owning them.
Hi, thanks so much for sharing this with me. I appreciate it.
Hi Steven,
I still collect CDs by buying online, from record stores and from thrift stores. Yesterday I received my order for 100 jewel cases from Sleeve City. I have 400-500 CDs and many from thrift stores (as you know) have damaged/scratched cases with glue from hard to remove price labels. Since I buy/clean and re-sleeve my vinyl I decided to replace the jewel cases. A friend of mine encouraged me to do so and for about a buck/jewel case I personally think it’s worth it.
I also rip all of my CDs to FLAC files and put them onto a SSD connected to a Mac Mini M1 which is what I use for a Roon Core (music management software). This allows me to listen to my CDs at the gym via streaming through Roon ARC.
I have an Oppo BDP-105 Blue Ray player for CDs and SACDs. I also use an Audiolab 6000 CD transport connected to a Holo Audio Cyan 2 DAC.
I do subscribe to Tidal and Qobuz and use them through Roon. I try to play LPs and CDs everyday.
Thanks for your vid and supporting CDs!
Thank you so much for your kind words.
CD has superior audio to most streaming platforms as they use lossy compression formats like mp3 and AAC, whereas CD is uncompressed 16 bit/44.1 kHz PCM audio. Yes there are lossless and even "high res" (up to 24 bit/96 kHz) services like tidal, but even then they can only really match CD sound quality, as it's technical specs are more than enough for the limits of human hearing.