Great video. I bought my first CD player in Germany in 1984. A Sony and I have been a fan of the format since that day. Yeah I still have CDs and 3 CD players and a transport. Ahhh the good old days of the compact disc.
The Rapid Rise (& Fall) of the CD
A few days ago, one of my favorite YouTube channels did a video on the CD. This channel (Asianometry) always does an incredible job telling the story of different technologies, technical industries and/or products.
I think most of you will find the 25 minute video to be very interesting.
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kennymac. As a side story, when the CD format was developed (as indicated in that video) I had bought a CD player straight away and enjoyed CD sound. I still had a Thorens TT and was spinning albums too. As time went on, CDs were engineered better and I got rid of my TT and albums. I had thought the format was dead. Well it was for 1-2 decades and now it’s back full tilt. I also have two tube amps even the US stopped making vacuum tubes long ago. I guess the point of this tale is that formats don’t usually die, they will come back eventually. To many audiophiles they sound good enough to enjoy the listening experience. |
Kennymac, not arguing here. I respect all opinions. Some of my younger friends have albums and they listen to them but only a few. I also have friends who go the see movies… this is after dvds, blueray discs and renting media and now streaming. Why do they go to the movie theatre and why didn’t it die out??? Who knows. It certainly is not mainstream, but it’s still alive and kicking. |
From Wikipedia The revival peaked in the 2020s decade, with various publications and record stores crediting Taylor Swift with driving vinyl sales.[12][13][14][15] In 2022, Swift's Midnightsbecame the first major album release to have its vinyl sales outpace CDs since 1987,[16][17]with approximately 600,000 sold in the US and 80,000 sold in the UK at the time of the record occurring.[18] In 2023, Swift's re-recorded 1989 (Taylor's Version) became the first album to sell over a million vinyl LPs within a single calendar year in the US.[19] In 2024, Swift's The Tortured Poets Department broke the record for the single-largest sales week for a vinyl album in the modern era, with 859,000 sales in its first week.[20] For 2022 the Recording Industry Association of America reported that: "Revenues from vinyl records grew 17% to $1.2 billion – the sixteenth consecutive year of growth – and accounted for 71% of physical format revenues. For the first time since 1987, vinyl albums outsold CDs in units (41 million vs 33 million)."[21 |