It's official: Audiophiles are over CDs
source: http://news.cnet.com/8301-13645_3-9991658-47.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-5
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Don't get the wrong idea: they haven't all dumped their CD players for turntables (I wish). Instead, they've bought music servers of some kind or another. How can this be happening?
I read the sad news on the Stereophile July 6 voting feature (scroll down to see results).
That week's question: how do you listen to digital music? The poll says 34 percent still use CD players as their primary digital source. Yikes, I would have guessed much higher, more like 70 percent. Thirty-six percent use a computer-based server, and 10 percent use dedicated servers such as Sonos or Squeezebox. Another 4 percent use iPods! I felt a little better that 11 percent use a SACD or DVD-Audio player. Another 3 percent voted "other."
Mind you, these are the Stereophile online readers, presumably the print readership would skew towards CD players. Or not.
Regardless, something's going on. Audiophiles tend to be a conservative bunch, or at least I thought they were. Me? I listen primarily to CDs and maybe 20 percent of the time to LPs. I cannot imagine using a music server anytime soon, and sound quality issues have nothing to do with that. I like picking music from my collection. It's a touchy-feely, organic process. One album leads to the next, or I accidentally find something I haven't listened to in years.
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JanaPokana
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I wish I could say I now experience the same sense of loss people must have felt when vinyl and cassettes went out of fashion, but I don't. Because I had to move a lot over the past couple of years, I just got used to digital music since it is so much easier to transport and less space-consuming. Nostalgia is lovely and all, but you have to be practical.
- 3 years ago
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JanaPokana
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flyingkick
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Finally!
CD's were the worst invention ever. Why would you make something you are not supposed to touch, but you have to touch in order to use?
- 3 years ago
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flyingkick
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helloimcat
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I'm dedicated to buying all my CD's at independent used record stores, but I also recently was given an iPod Shuffle that I use for long trips. I completely agree that there IS something very organic about choosing something from shelves and shelves of music, about finding that perfect album on sale, and falling in love with a WHOLE album, not just the single.
- 3 years ago
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helloimcat
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kelvin311
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I cannot remember the last time I bought or used a CD, and when I did they got scratched so often I usually made copies so I didn't have to buy another $20 CD. From a green standpoint I think not using CD's saves alot of waste material and with an iPod or other Micro based product I can fit thousands of songs in the palm of my hand, that's like carrying my CD collection in my pocket at all times. Technology is moving forward and so are we, just like tapes, CD's are becoming a thing of the past.
It's been real CD, but I'm moving on.
- 3 years ago
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kelvin311
