although i have picked up cds at thrift and garage sales all along, i have recently up it since local record store opened a few years back. have found many gems ... some on the fringes of what i like , and acasionally curius about. I def love having cds better than any other medium.
I still buy CDs - I rip them to a media server for my own consumption. It’s basically my personal Spotify, full of only the music I want to listen to with all my playlists and all the old, obscure singles and B sides that would be impossible to find on streaming services.
THis year I bought a low milage garage kept 2000 Acura Tl and it has a working CD player and a cassette player so I have been buying old CDs and cassettes I owned in the 80s LOL.
That's cool! I used to have a cassette player but had only 2 cassettes and was too lazy to start collecting cassette tapes. But it's definitely a cool thing to have.
Absolutely, 100%. Always have and probably always will for as long as the media is still manufactured. Superior to literally every other format I've tried other than uncompressed flac. Sadly it seems like my hifi is on it's way out. (temperamental disk changer tray, sometimes laser refuses to read discs despite repeated cleaning and tweaking focal length etc, and often doesn't work at all unless I power down clear caps and restart... :( New Hi-fi's seem to only fall into the two categories of cheap crap, or overpriced "audiophile grade" gimmicky crap.
although i have picked up cds at thrift and garage sales all along, i have recently up it since local record store opened a few years back. have found many gems ... some on the fringes of what i like , and acasionally curius about. I def love having cds better than any other medium.
I still buy CDs - I rip them to a media server for my own consumption. It’s basically my personal Spotify, full of only the music I want to listen to with all my playlists and all the old, obscure singles and B sides that would be impossible to find on streaming services.
THis year I bought a low milage garage kept 2000 Acura Tl and it has a working CD player and a cassette player so I have been buying old CDs and cassettes I owned in the 80s LOL.
That's cool! I used to have a cassette player but had only 2 cassettes and was too lazy to start collecting cassette tapes. But it's definitely a cool thing to have.
Absolutely, 100%. Always have and probably always will for as long as the media is still manufactured. Superior to literally every other format I've tried other than uncompressed flac.
Sadly it seems like my hifi is on it's way out. (temperamental disk changer tray, sometimes laser refuses to read discs despite repeated cleaning and tweaking focal length etc, and often doesn't work at all unless I power down clear caps and restart... :(
New Hi-fi's seem to only fall into the two categories of cheap crap, or overpriced "audiophile grade" gimmicky crap.
I agree 💯
Mine too, I'm afraid. Same problem, laser refuses to read. But it's quite old, maybe it's time for a new one.
Anyway, thanks for watching 🫡