The proof of the pudding is in the eating. And after more than twenty years, the market has voted with its dollars. I have so many wonderful cds and so many awful vinyls, I can't imaging the world going backwards. I also have 78 RPM shellac records too and players for them but I can't even remember the last time I heard one. Awful sound. (There's even a black and white television set in my basement but I'll bet the last time it was turned on was at least 20 years ago. I wonder why I don't just throw it out.) If cds sound as bad as some audiophiles say they are, they never would have amounted to anything. Maybe it's the music they listen to. They are hearing it for what it really is for the first time and they don't like it. Or maybe it's the rest of that audiophile overhyped junk they listen to it on. Those 8" 2 way little boxes they paid $1500 for that have no bass and shrill treble or those puny class A tube amps that can only put out a few watts. There's the culprit.

I want to thank all you audiophiles out there who sell your unwanted cds to the second hand stores; keep 'em comin'. When I can buy DG, Phillips, London, Sony/Columbia, RCA cds for a few bucks that sound as good as new, it's all I can do to stop myself while there's any money left in my bank account. I'd rather buy great recordings than chase electronic rainbows. BTW, when are you trading in your new equipment. It's already obsolete.