17-01-2011, 09:00
you must be reading my mind Jerome, i was thinking about this just last week when i was posting biggest sellers of 2010 on the site!
i noticed cd sales have dropped sharply over the last twelve months and places like itunes have increased dramatically.
my thoughts are:
you are quite correct, tapes were crap. 'lossness' is a marketing ploy, much the same as 'cds are indestructable'.
however,when it comes to vinyl, we have to disagree im afraid! i like the sound of vinyl,always have done and always will, the new vinyl albums/singles are of higher quality than those of yesteryear and i believe there will always be a market for them,allbeit collectors of an artists output(in my case). and i prefer to look at the full 12" of cover than a microscopic 6" version of a cover anyday.
cd's will never totally dissapear from the marketplace....they said vinyl was dead back in 1984ish...remember? but it is making a comeback, most albums are now available on vinyl, but not in quantities of decades past. i believe the same will happen to cds,they will be available but in limited quantities.
personally, i have never bought an album or a track from any download site and dont intend to. i have transferred cds to ipods for my kids and ex-wife, but they lose to much sound quality, as you correctly state, and me, i listen to the quality of the recording first and foremost.
i want the best sounds available to me and my stereo system and whether that comes from vinyl of cd i dont care.
one example of a great album cover that loses its effect on a cd packaging is "sgt.peppers",compare the two(vinyl and cd) and tell me which looks best, another two i saw recently were "band of joy"-robert plant & "national ransom"-elvis costello, both look great on the vinyl format, and nothing special in the cd format.
i noticed cd sales have dropped sharply over the last twelve months and places like itunes have increased dramatically.
my thoughts are:
you are quite correct, tapes were crap. 'lossness' is a marketing ploy, much the same as 'cds are indestructable'.
however,when it comes to vinyl, we have to disagree im afraid! i like the sound of vinyl,always have done and always will, the new vinyl albums/singles are of higher quality than those of yesteryear and i believe there will always be a market for them,allbeit collectors of an artists output(in my case). and i prefer to look at the full 12" of cover than a microscopic 6" version of a cover anyday.
cd's will never totally dissapear from the marketplace....they said vinyl was dead back in 1984ish...remember? but it is making a comeback, most albums are now available on vinyl, but not in quantities of decades past. i believe the same will happen to cds,they will be available but in limited quantities.
personally, i have never bought an album or a track from any download site and dont intend to. i have transferred cds to ipods for my kids and ex-wife, but they lose to much sound quality, as you correctly state, and me, i listen to the quality of the recording first and foremost.
i want the best sounds available to me and my stereo system and whether that comes from vinyl of cd i dont care.
one example of a great album cover that loses its effect on a cd packaging is "sgt.peppers",compare the two(vinyl and cd) and tell me which looks best, another two i saw recently were "band of joy"-robert plant & "national ransom"-elvis costello, both look great on the vinyl format, and nothing special in the cd format.
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They were big in the 70s....for five minutes,on a Saturday,after lunch..." - Me 2014.
They were big in the 70s....for five minutes,on a Saturday,after lunch..." - Me 2014.