This brings it home to me

[pixelthis]

FOR Christmas my darling sis in law gave me a CD case.
A CD case!

I guess I hurt her feelings, the funny way I was looking at it.
Guess I will use it for computer discs.
Cant remember the last time I actually listened to a CD, if I buy one I copy it twice
(once for the MP3 player, once for the hard drive) and put it safely away.
With SD chips the size of a thumbnail with 4 gig capacity, ITUNES CARDS, and other things, like downloads, CD is rapidly becoming passe.
I HAVE A mp3 player with 8 gig capacity, can hold dozens of albums even at 192kbs,
and its the size of a pack of matches.
what do I need a CD case for?
I HAVE HEARD it for months, the action of Linn pulling out of the CD player market , among others, have indicated the same thing.
But looking at something that five years ago would have been quite handy, and trying to figure it out, really brought it home.
CD is dead.
The Dino hasnt fallen down yet, but its getting there.:1:

[PDN]

Vinyl LPs are making a come back in a big way. Just look at the number of audiophile quality turntables being manufactured these days. CDs are no where near dead. I continue to build my collection of music CDs and SACDs. Just purchased one today (Paul Taylor-Burnin'). Fabulous.

MP3 is still a compressed file. Not desirable. So one manufacturer (Linn) ceased producing a CD player. That doesn't mean much. It may not have been a core business for them anyway. There are still many manufacturers producing CD players, SACD players, etc. I look forward to my next upgrade to a higher end SACD player.

[Sir Terrence the Terrible]

These two responses reflect just where the market for music sits.

On one side you have person who sacrifices ultimate quality for convience.

On the other side you have a person who is driven by quality, with convience playing a second fiddle.

This same split exist for video as well with the down loaders on one side, and the videophiles on the other.

Man are we in transition!

BTW Pix, just what CD's do you store at 192kHz?

[audio amateur]

These two responses reflect just where the market for music sits.

On one side you have person who sacrifices ultimate quality for convience.

On the other side you have a person who is driven by quality, with convience playing a second fiddle.

This same split exist for video as well with the down loaders on one side, and the videophiles on the other.

Man are we in transition!

BTW Pix, just what CD's do you store at 192kHz?
He wrote 192kbps, the mp3 bitrate not sampling frequency.

[Sir Terrence the Terrible]

He wrote 192kbps, the mp3 bitrate not sampling frequency.

Thanks AA, it would help if I put my glasses on!

[audio amateur]

Thanks AA, it would help if I put my glasses on!
Lol no problem. It's an easy confusion

[pixelthis]

These two responses reflect just where the market for music sits.

On one side you have person who sacrifices ultimate quality for convience.

On the other side you have a person who is driven by quality, with convience playing a second fiddle.

This same split exist for video as well with the down loaders on one side, and the videophiles on the other.

Man are we in transition!

BTW Pix, just what CD's do you store at 192kHz?


I have my entire CD collection "stored" in a CD megachanger, very convenient.
I have them burned on my hard drive in "lossless" format, indistingushable from the
original disc.
BUT my MP3 player only plays Mp3 and wav so I have a seperate directory with my music burned at 192khz.
You keep slamming me on the "quality" issue, assuming that "quality" must mean inconvienece.
I care so little about q that I burned a rather large CD collection twice, once for home listening and the other for my MP3 player(been getting a lot of compliments about
how that 192 khz sounds, btw).
My lossless files run around 600-700+ khz, BTW.:1:

[pixelthis]

MY WHOLE POINT IS THAT A TSUNAMI OF CHANGE is sweeping the AV world.
Its driving video rental stores under, a friend showed me his Direct TV section where
he could download 1080p movies to watch, 5.99.
He is a stickler for Q as am I, and can never find a BLU available.
And increasingly more "day and date" releases are even more hurtfull.
I rented "whiteout" on DVD recently(the BLU was taken), got home and checked
On Demand on my cable.
There it was, in HD, FOR A DOLLAR MORE THAN I PAID.
Came out last Tuesday!!!
And why buy a CD? I can keep hundreds of (reletively) high q audio tracks in my pocket,
very highq for a car enviroment, and thousands on my hard drive indistingushable from
a CD's audio, sometimes sounding better, really.
CD is dead, rental stores are dead, everything is going to a virtual world.
The level and pace of change is faster than I have ever seen, and being handed a
CD case for a Chirstmas present(which now holds my windows 7 upgrade ) just drove that home , sometimes something hits you all of a sudden.:1: