ralphpnj;609048 Wrote: > Actually in the early days of CDs I took a completely different > approach. I went out and bought myself a very nice turntable (a used > Linn LP12) and while all my friends were busy replacing their vinyl > collections with little silver discs I only bought CDs of new > material. > Me too!
In the mid 1990's the record shops were selling off the last of their LP stock. I remember picking up 10 LPs from HMV, all ones I actually wanted, for £1.50 each. The same thing seems to be happening now with CDs. I just picked up three U2 CDs (October, Pop and How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb) from a clearance sale at HMV in Oxford Street at £3 each. Their CD stock is thinning out alarmingly - I have had difficulty buying a lot of back-catalogue items recently and taken to e-bay to find those older recordings. > The LPs sounded great then and still sound great today.You should try > recording some of them onto digital files. You get the best of both worlds then. I have recorded 300 LPs to FLAC so far, about half of my collection, many of which are not available either on CD or digital. > The funny thing is with the advent of streaming music and digital > downloads the days of the CD are clearly numbered and yet there is no > replacement for good old vinyl. In other words, long after CDs are > replaced by digital files vinyl will live on. I am not sure what you are getting at here. CD replaced LP, yet there are still many of us stalwarts out here enjoying our LP collections. I am sure that when CD finally gets replaced by digital files there will be plenty of old fogies out there enjoying their CD collection in the same way as I enjoy my LP collection. LPs were the recording medium of *my* youth so I have a nostalgia for slipping the LP from its sleeve and dropping the needle in the groove - hearing that crackly lead in give way to music. I am sure many of those brought up with CD will get the same kick from flipping the disk out of its jewel case and watching the disk tray slide home. > By the same token ebooks may well replace the novel but may never > replace those large format glossy photo books aka "coffee table" books. You are right, but I think books generally are more of a technological challenge than LPs and CDs. CDs only have music on them (in most cases) so you can fit *any* music into a digital file. However books come in all shapes and sizes and often contain a complex mixture of text, photos and graphics. I think the novel translates neatly to the Kindle, but a travel guide? Or a medical text book? Graphic novel? Pop-up children's book? Try putting "Where's Wally" on a Kindle! One day we may get fold-out reading devices up to A3 size with full colour reflective screens with a true white background that can do 600dpi photos or line art with no backlight and with a 2 week battery life (don't hold your breath!). But until then there is little threat to a large proportion of books. -- TheLastMan Matt http://www.last.fm/user/MJL-UK *SqueezeBoxes:* SB Duet (Controller + two receivers) *Server:* Synology DS107+ NAS (with firmware 2.3-1157) running Squeezebox Server 7.5.3 on Synology Package Manager *Network:* Netgear DG834GT ADSL modem/router, 2 x Buffalo WHR-HP-G54 as access points *Livingroom:* Receiver into Naim 42/110 amp, B&W CM2 speakers *Kitchen:* Receiver into Denon DM37 mini-system, B&W 686 speakers *Study:* Linn LP12, Naim 72/Hi-cap/Headline. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ TheLastMan's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16021 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=80369
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