Will CDs die

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Originally Posted by Mark

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Originally Posted by Rudy Tamasz

CDs will survive as a niche product. There always will be an audience, which likes to have something tangible, admire the coverwork etc. Same thing happened to vinyls. They occupy a very marginal share of the music market, but they have their customers.

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My point is that vinyl occupies a space because of the quality of the analogue sound it produces. Nothing else can replicate what vinyl achieves. However a CD is literally just a digital audio file put into a disc, which you can store on a hard drive - so I don't see any point in their existance.

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CD quality is still better than compressed files like MP3 though. There is still a large market for CD's as proven by the amount that are still sold.

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Originally Posted by henners88

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Originally Posted by Mark

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Originally Posted by Rudy Tamasz

CDs will survive as a niche product. There always will be an audience, which likes to have something tangible, admire the coverwork etc. Same thing happened to vinyls. They occupy a very marginal share of the music market, but they have their customers.

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My point is that vinyl occupies a space because of the quality of the analogue sound it produces. Nothing else can replicate what vinyl achieves. However a CD is literally just a digital audio file put into a disc, which you can store on a hard drive - so I don't see any point in their existance.

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CD quality is still better than compressed files like MP3 though. There is still a large market for CD's as proven by the amount that are still sold.

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I used to have a Lin Sander turntable that played vinyl records with amazing clarity and quality. To this day I am yet to hear a better sound come from and other device that can match the old Lin Sander's quality :)

Yes CD can be better quality than MP3 but there's no reason why hard drives cannot store uncompressed music to the same quality.

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Originally Posted by Mark

Yes CD can be better quality than MP3 but there's no reason why hard drives cannot store uncompressed music to the same quality.

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I am yet to hear a stored music file (compressed or otherwise) that sounds as good as a CD does and I am also yet to hear a CD that sounds as good and a vinyl record played on a high quality turntable.

That's almost certainly subjective on your part. As I'm sure you're aware the data on a CD is just a file.

Yes I am :) and I still stand by what I said about the sound quality comparison for the different formats :) Vinyl, amazingly, is still the best quality if you have the right table to play them :)

It's not surprising as an analogue recording done well will always be better than digitally sampled.

I typed out a response earlier and it isn't showing up. Can't be bothered doing it again!

If you were listening 'blind' do you think you really could hear the difference between, vinyl or a good quality CD played on comparable equipment?

It's all in the equipment you play it back on. Compressed data on a memory stick will sound as good as a CD if played on, say, a computer with speakers speakers from Poundland. But play it back thrugh good quality equipment and you will be able to hear the difference. The same applies to CD vs vinyl - the playback system must be as good for both recordings.

Very true D-Type :) But you can hear a definite difference between CD's/digital and vinyl. Vinyl has a more natural sound than the other formats. But as you say, you need the best equipment on both sides to distinguish between them :)