What is your opinion on CDs? I like them, not as much as I do records, but still
Once the vinyl meme ends the CD meme will begin again
The only reason you'd want to buy vinyls is if 1: You're a fucking faggot hipster or 2: Serious hardcore audiophile that has a lot of money to waste
CDs have about the same audio quality as vinyls but people seem to think otherwise
>1.5 mbps true lossless
>more space conscious
>less susceptible to damage/wear
>no need for maintenance
>doesn't matter how you store them
>not a retro revival meme
If you still own vinyl, I'm sincerely embarrassed for you.
>>65739012
I think the only exception to owning vinyls if you have old albums that haven't re-released for CDs yet
I buy jazz on CD because it's really cheap and jazz vinyl is $$$.
>>65739055
Obviously this will be the exception for any format. The people that buy digitally mastered albums in analog mediums are world class retards.
>>65739088
>The people that buy digitally mastered albums in analog mediums are world class retards
So anyone who buys vinyl editions of almost every post-90s release or recent reissues of classic albums.
>>65739269
Yes
>>65738842
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>>65739057
I've discovered during the last two years, since I can take CD-Rs home from the mastering plant, that there's an astonishing variation in quality between different CD plants. If you think digital is perfect, I have news for you. Many of us have been fooled by this myth that it's just 0s and 1s and therefore copies perfectly. It doesn't. The variations in quality are pretty wild, and random. Just the way you hook up a cable can make a difference. And there's no quality control in these CD plants, other than someone checking whether there's any level being transferred.
Most of us take it for granted that a CD is a CD, and we almost never discuss about varying standards of manufacture. I can't say too much about current US manufacturer's because I have few US made CDs. I have still detected a general shrillness to many US CDs ("let's tweek the high end to make them sound sharp to delude the general public that our CDs sound better than vinyl and tape"). Tweeking the high end also accentuated the hiss. After so many disappointments and revelations having heard import versions after getting US discs I have concentrated on acquiring import pressings.
As for maunfacturers themselves: on the import side I like the clarity of Nimbus UK but they can be hissier and lighter on low end than MPO France which produces well rounded sounding CDs. PDO have been fine except for the recent PDO UK disc rot problem. Sonopress in Germany are adequate. I used to shy away from DADC in Austria (Sony Europe uses them) but have realised that was a personal bias. Nimbus USA (Virginia) vary. Their reissues of the OMD catalogue were shoddy. DADC in Indiana (Sony/Columbia) are so so.
>>65739345
Is this a pasta?
Physical media > music from your phone
>>65738842
I mean, I only actually listen to digital files, but I prefer CDs to vinyl when collecting physical stuff because I don't have to break the bank for them.
(Also I don't actually have a vinyl player.)
>>65739722
>things that are false
>>65739722
Music from your iPod > music from your phone
Fucking beta
>artist does a vinyl-only release
>>65740155
>not having a Zune
