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Listen to whatever gets you closer to music's message and draws you in deeper but let's not ignore the reality of things either. Does music sound better on vinyl records than on CDs? | Tufts Now.
Excellent article. The article lists and explains the reasons why CDs are technically superior to LPs. LPs and CDs sound different. And some folks may still prefer listening to LPs regardless of its technical limitations. That’s perfectly ok.
Excellent article. The article lists and explains the reasons why CDs are technically superior to LPs. LPs and CDs sound different. And some folks may still prefer listening to LPs regardless of its technical limitations. That’s perfectly ok.
But that was always known. That is why the industry proposed a new format in the form of digital. I am not sure we will ever see another form of physical media replace the CD... What would be the need? Everyone has a smart device of one form or another and everyone will have virtually unlimited bandwidth for such things in the form of 5G eventually. With bandwidth and storage not being a problem, why would anyone come back to the physical media? It would be like bringing back the printing press and having kids on bicycles start doing the paper routes again.. For what purpose?
The CD may in fact be the last of the Mohicans. Perhaps we will see a model adopted where the OFFLINE library in the form of large capacity storage on personal sized solid state or quantum computing storage device will be available but again, with the 5G, why?
I don’t think that the author is proposing to bring back the CD.
As I see it, CDs are dead. I interpret the article as explaining the reasons why the 16/44 digital format of the CD is technically superior to the technical capabilities of the LP.
I mainly stream these days and have not played a CD in years. Bandwidth is not an issue for me either even without 5G. But I still spin LPs once in a while when I feel like hearing a “different” sound.