Old CDs and records

@cd318 

All you need to do is to rip your collection to a hard drive/ USB and then play it back via a PC/laptop, or as in my case, a smartphone.

I have done this with all my pop / R&B CDs.  I copied just my favorite tracks to USB sticks to play in my vehicles.  Driving music.  In .wav format, sounds great.  I was stunned at how much info these things can hold.  Up to 700 songs each stick and not even close to being full.  Perfect solution.

The LP is never going to be obsolete, but I can't see what advantage the convenient CD has over the even more convenient streaming options.

The LP is obsolete, as we speak.  Happened with the advent of the Compact Disc.  It's being 'propped up' by people willing to pay high prices for 'audiophile' discs and the  equipment needed to play the disc.  More to do with exclusivity than anything else.  The problem with the CD is that, it is too good and too simple and too inexpensive, and most of all, requires minimum interaction with the audiophile.

Streaming is very convenient.  The difference boils down to whether or not ownership is important to you.   It is to some, others not so much.  But I agree with you, it is the future.

Nice post.

Cheers

@ghdprentice 

Thanks for the post.   Sometimes I am tempted to set up my vinyl rig again to do a comparison between LP and CD.  In the meantime I will just agree to disagree with those that prefer LP.  Although I do miss the album cover art and the liner notes /  booklets of LP.

I have also learned that there are so many factors involved in all this, that just using logic and  or technical specifications and even sound quality is just plain useless.  We all have perfectly strange reasons for doing and thinking as we do.

You say you have access to thousands of tunes on Qobuz, and I'm sure they sound great, but, they would not belong to me.  I would be renting them by the month. I would not own them, and that's important to me.   For instance, to not have physical copies  of the Karajan 1977 Beethoven cycle, on both LP and CD, would be unthinkable!! :)

Cheers

Now I'm really confused:

You hear it said a lot on Audiogon,  that LPs are better and more desirable as a musical source than CDs.  I disagree, but many audiophiles hold this view.  They trash CD at every opportunity.   They even 'apologize' if they inadvertently admit to listening to a CD. :)

Then along comes Streaming.  Now audiophiles seem to be saying, the standard for great streaming is, if it equals CD in sound quality.  Am I missing something?

Cheers

In the early 80s, I bought my first CD player and CD's in Germany also.  After seeing and hearing the Sony Rep demonstrate the player, I thanked the Lord.   

My Thorens TD126MKll and all 700 albums went into the closet / garage.  Where they will stay.

Different strokes.

Cheers