I hope SACD sticks around, as compared to any other source of sound reproduction, nothing beats a good SACD recording in my system. Unlike the traditional CD, which at this time for me is obsolete, I will continue to purchase SACD's from my favorite artists if they are available.
The demise of the music CD inevitable?
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Back on campus, my senior year. Everywhere I look, its all earbuds and cell phones streaming audio. None of my friends would even consider purchasing a CD! I as well almost completely stopped purchasing CD's now that I have lossless streaming from TIDAL. It seems that SQ is not an issue anymore for this generation, its content that is most important and there is no loss of it out there in the streaming world.
Back on campus, my senior year. Everywhere I look, its all earbuds and cell phones streaming audio. None of my friends would even consider purchasing a CD! I as well almost completely stopped purchasing CD's now that I have lossless streaming from TIDAL. It seems that SQ is not an issue anymore for this generation, its content that is most important and there is no loss of it out there in the streaming world.
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When the companies producing discs cease being profitable from doing so then the cd will go the way of the dodo bird, the eight track, the cassette tape. Vinyl died as well, but we all see how that's turning out. There even seems to be renewed favor for reel to reel which frankly I can't understand. (I had one back in the late '70's early '80's) As posts preceding this one substantiate I have yet to experience a problem with my old compact discs -all of which I've ripped into flac files on my server with nary a hitch. I believe my discs will outlive the files in the long haul given the complexities of computer storage and the ghosts inherent to the machine in general. Will the eight track ever return? Nope. Will the cassette tape ever return? Nope. Will reel to reel enjoy the sort of revival that vinyl is experiencing? Nope. At least in scale. Thumb drive loaded music is the future and it's Soylent Green! |
In my interview of LampizatOr's CEO, Lukasz Fikus, he talks about the demise of the CD, which you can read at the link below: http://ayllonmedia.com/news/the-tape-rolls-on-a-new-digital-giant-a-candid-interview-with-the-lampizator-himself-lukasz-ficus |
Not to go off topic or hijack this thread but with regard to the
LampizatOr interview he also states "...
two channel stereo reproduction is kind of endangered species..." . I highly doubt that two channel will disappear. In my view two channel produces the most faithful reproduction of sound (music) when compared to 5.1, 7.1, 9.1, 22.1 and so on. |
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