CDs vs. Vinyl Records (vs. Music Downloads?)
Consider me a reverse snob: I love CDs. My music collection contains hundreds of them.
I still have four or five vinyl LPs and a couple dozen 45-rpm singles packed away somewhere, but I no longer have a turntable to play those relics on.
This makes me uncool in some music lovers eyes (or, rather, ears ). There s a sizeable number of audiophiles who disdain CDs and digital music in general and who decry the passing of vinyl as the standard medium of recorded sound.
Vinyl lovers assert that music sounds better some use the term warmer on records than on CDs. They also contend that the analog nature of vinyl records comes closer to capturing
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Frankly, I don t see it (er, hear it). But then, maybe I don t have sufficiently finely tuned ears.
Given the fact that, at least to my hearing and I suspect to that of the vast majority of listeners , there is little noticeable difference between the sound of a song on vinyl and the sound of it on CD, here are the reasons I prefer to own the latter:
- CDs take up less room. My CD collection fills three shelves of a six-shelf bookcase, plus a standalone rack that holds maybe 150 CDs. That same amount of music on records would probably require all of my living room shelf space (i.e., Steps To Buying An MP3 Playerfive big bookcases) to hold.
...The second step is to consider what you want your MP3 player to do. The final step is to find the size that best suites the features you want to do. That is it. Follow the three steps above and ... - CDs hold more songs. Vinyl long-playing albums usually contained only ten or a dozen songs. Check out any CD that is a copy of an album originally produced on vinyl; unless it has bonus tracks you re unlikely to find more than 12 songs on it. Original CDs those produced as CDs from the get-go may contain 18, 20 or even two dozen tracks. More music is a good thing.
- CDs open up troves of great recorded music to more people. If not for the many old records committed to CD, I probably would not have discovered the marvelously haunting blues recordings of the 1920s and 30s. Not everyone has the knowledge, time, persistence Concerts - Renaissance At Carnegie Halland funds to build a collection of original 78s of this music. The advent of CDs has made this people s music available to the modern masses.
...itself other than to tell a little of the story.The critics main problem with the concert was that a live performance is supposed to be a window in the soul of an artist. In this case all we were treated ... - CDs pick up less noise over time than vinyl does. Even with care, vinyl records acquire hisses, pops and scratches that never go away. Admittedly, CDs are not indestructible, either. But of the hundreds of CDs that I own some of which have been played over and over none has any permanent acquired noise that I can detect.(Yes, I am aware of reports suggesting that the earliest mass-produced CDs are prone to degrade with time. Believe me, I m monitoring my CD collection carefully for any problems along this line. 12 String Acoustic GuitarsSo far, nothing. In any event, today s CDs are said to be manufactured to higher standards than the first ones were.)
...guitars are Martin, Guild, Taylor and Gibson. They are known for both the quality and price of their instruments.Rock bands have adapted to the use of 12 string acoustic guitars. They are easy to learn and play. They provide variations ... - CDs, to me, represent a cleaner form of music playback technology, less encumbered by physical constraints. Streaming audio, mp3 files and iPods take this freedom even further. Maybe it s an aesthetic peculiar to me, but I like the notion of music that flows at the push of a button, with a minimum of human or (noticeable) machine intervention. The mere act of turning a record over to play the other side now seems quaintly antiquated and hopelessly industrial-age to me.
As you might have noticed, all of these points in favor of CDs apply even more forcefully to mp3s
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Assuredly, CDs will one day become as extinct as vinyl records. As much as I love them now, I doubt I ll lament their passing. It just means that some better medium of recorded music will have taken their place.
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