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Is the CD Becoming Obsolete?
mrnomas writes "What's to blame for the declining CD sales? Is it that manufacturers are putting out more and more 'safe' (read: crap) music while independent musicians are releasing online? Is it because iTunes is now the third largest music retailer in the country? Or is it just that CDs are becoming obsolete?" Quoting: "Forbes.com [ran] an article showing that CD sales are expected to be down 20% in 2008 (slightly higher than the 15% drop initially predicted). Why such a drop? What's truly happening is a gradual shift away from physical media to downloadable formats. What this indicates, so far, is that US sales of digital music will be growing at an estimated rate of 28% in 2008, however physical sales will drop even further, resulting in a net overall decline.""
No worry, there will always be a market for vinyl.
Wow, talk about market penetration!
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Fully agree - but CD quality was never as good a vinyl through the right equipment. Bob Dylan had a lot to say about that a few months back. To his ears there just haven't been any CDs that have achieved what vinyl, with the right engineers handling the mix, used to.
Ohhh. really. I have a pair of thousand dollar cables to sell you.....
Realistically most ears can't hear the distinction between new vinyl and a CD / MP3. I can't tell reasonable bitrate Mp3, CD, or vinyl. They simply are good enough for most.
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Inhalants cause hearing loss, just so you know.
I was just noticing the other day, it gets really quiet around here after I blow the dust out of my keyboard with that canned air stuff.
> Are you honestly claiming that you can hear frequencies higher than 22.050 kHz?
Its possible. Are you completely sure that the grandparent poster isn't a cat?