Discussion: Are CDs going to be "remembered/iconic" one day? - Page 2

jomarr

I've been collecting CDs since I was a teenager so yeah it will.

I'm looking at collecting vinyls aswell

RobynYoBank

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Originally posted by CoolestPerson12

Not true. CD quality is superior, and you must remember every time you play a vinyl you destroy it. Not to mention it takes a lot of work to keep it in good shape. Also consider the fact that a vinyl will never be produced perfectly every time so there will be pops and scratches. A CD will be perfectly created and produce the original sound every time.

You are correct that vinyls degrade, but that's part of the allure. Pristine vinyls presumably carry perfect representations of the recorded music, and CDs do not.

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Originally posted by GaGaFan

I think that one of the biggest reasons that vinyls are still popular is that the quality is better--even if only by a small extent. CDs are not that much higher quality than MP3s considering the fact that if you import the CD to your iTunes library you are limited to the same kbps as the downloads you can get off the iTunes store.

That's only because you're choosing to rip it into a lossy format. iTunes supports ALAC imports, which preserve the initial CD quality. It's not a problem with the CD itself; a ripped vinyl is also dependent on the codec used, though a vinyl rip to any digital form technically loses data.

James Maslow

CDs are iconic, period.

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Originally posted by Jameson Teqkilla

No, vinyls will remain the collector standard in terms of audio quality

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Originally posted by JoshBTW

Doesn't that depend on the content creators though? People started buying vinyls because some popular artists put their new CDs out in vinyl like gaga with btw or more recently daft punk with ram. Or was it the other way around? Maybe it's a result of the whole hipster trend...

This, tbqh.

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Originally posted by RobynYoBank

That's only because you're choosing to rip it into a lossy format. iTunes supports ALAC imports, which preserve the initial CD quality.

Educate 'em!

YourMadGesty

It's coincidence this is brought up because I was just reading a magazine from the early 90s during the first years of the Grunge explosion and there was a huge sense that vinyl was 'in demand'/favored with the Generation X Indie crowd. The same sentiment was brought up then about CDs not having as good of quality as vinyl and how trendy it had became to collect vinyl records.

Anyways, I say yes. Ten or twenty years from now, it's going to be in trend to collect CD formats either as a collectors, nostalgia or 'to fit in'. Which seems to be happening with vinyl.

RobynYoBank

While I agree that it might be true that CDs will be collected in the future, the typical bragging point of "vinyls are of higher quality" will never be true of CDs, DVDs, Blu-Ray discs, USB drives, or digital downloads. All of the the latter forms of storage and any type of digital storage that we devise in the future are the same, but vinyls are fundamentally different and that's something that will probably preserve their appeal for years to come.

Fireman25

I still own my tape cassettes when I recorded music from the radio back in the day. I also still have my mini radio.

Thaye

They will be remember for a long time of course, but that's about it. I'm sure vinyls will remain the commonly used medium for collectors for a little longer and even outlive CDs.

I'm JAVIng Fun

I'm sure they will, for a long time CDs have been a main way to get music from our faves. However, I have heard vinyl records being played before and I have to say, when I ask people why they liked big disks that take up space is because of sound quality

(and they're right ).

But one thing is for sure that people will start collecting CDs like me right now (I already have 80+ CDs so far)

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-mUsIcLoVeR-

CDs >> They're iconic. I just reached the 200 mark of my collection, and it keeps on growing, after six years of collecting. CDs are epic.