The CD is 25 - We honour it with betrayal

[joshwa]

Ah CDs... just bought a mint 1989 Kings X CD off ebay the other day... sounds great in the car I think CDs here to stay to be honest.

[dangel]

Ah CDs... just bought a mint 1989 Kings X CD off ebay the other day... sounds great in the car I think CDs here to stay to be honest.

Kings X - that's taking me back I wonder where that CD is.. I might stick it on when i get in!

[BEANFro Elite]

You could back them up on to a CD-R

Most people these days, unsurprisingly do NOT back up their mountains of data, I am of course, referring to the average Joe and below

[iranu]

Exactly, CDs and DVDs have something over mp3 downloads,...

yep it's called sound quality. Something that has gone out the window with mp3.

[g8ina]

TBH MP3 isn't so bad when you're my age (52) as your top end hearing usually goes. MP3 (std) cuts off at 16KHz, so it is used a helluva lot here.

I still have all my original CDs though - all 800 odd.

[Funkstar]

I find it funny that the majority of "audiophiles" that can apparently hear the differences in audio reproduction and justify spending tens of thousands of pounds of equipment, are past middle age and actually can't hear as well as they used to

[Dorza]

Most of the music I buy is downloaded off the net for less than £2 a track in WAV format and less than £1.50 for mp3 and some of the previews are upto 3 minutes long. I don't use iTunes and it is not infected with DRM from what I can tell. It's a great service if its the kind of music your into. I don't care for the physical stuff like the CD and the packaging, it only takes up space and gathers dust once I rip the music to my HDD.

I appreciate what the CD and all incarnations of it have done since they have been released but I have to admit I am a bigger fan of downloaded content now. An mp3 player for example takes up far less space than a CD and has the ability to store far more music. The quality might be less but is it really that noticeable over earphones for you think "yeah this would sound superior on a CD"? I personally haven't thought that yet and the same applies when I listen though my PC/Car speakers.

[EasterEEL]

I find it funny that the majority of "audiophiles" that can apparently hear the differences in audio reproduction and justify spending tens of thousands of pounds of equipment, are past middle age and actually can't hear as well as they used to

It's so true, I used read all the HiFi mags in the 70's wishing I could afford the high end stuff, purchasing something made by Linn Sondek was always an ambition.

Now I can afford a high end system my hearing is not what it was. The system I have now really only sounds it's best when it is played loud and I very rarely do that. One of my friends summed it up when he said "your system could entertain a small village, it sounds great from the end of your back garden".

Any decent system will betray the source as mp3 and even at my age I can easily hear the difference between CD quality and music compressed by mp3. It's not the compressed high end; it's because mp3 is not lossless. APE sounds much better.

Storm

[kalniel]

Bah, anyone knows that vinyl is superior to horrid digitised sound

In other news, I just found my first mouldy CD today - wasn't that old either