I currently have north of 600 CDs! I appreciate the aesthetic of the shiny round disc, the feel of the plastic jewel case.. the clear clean sound. I also have a ton of vinyl and a lot of mp3s.. but honestly, CDs (in my opinion) are about the best medium for music. I will keep collecting. Videos like yours are motivating! Thanks for posting it!
i prefer sound quality to clear clean sound missing almost half of the sounds on the recording that ´s why i never bought older lp´s i had in vinyl , as i always took care of them as they should be handled not crazy like wearing gloves and whatever those lunatics do
Yeah cds are bettwer than overpriced vinyl. I dont need listen to pop, cracks and hum from vinyl. And everytime you listen to vinyl, stylus destroys a bit. Cds are king
@@Watcher4111 for you might be true but in reality cds are not the best as they could already create a more evolved format not the 70´s developed cd, yes it´s true but cd players don´t last as long as a turntable if ancient ,these new things couldn´t be called turntable but strange vinyl readers as the cartridges at a very high price are not the same as cartridges and stylus sold till the year 2000, i own more than 5.000 cds and 15.000 records(a bit more)but i´m using 70´s ,80´s and 90´s turntables when they were really good ,cd players i have them very expensive ones with great specifications but it´s a converted sound and converted again for one to hear it ,DAc´s are not expensive if bought internal ones as a internal one can cost 50€ with assembly and a external DAC with the same quality only from 500€ to a lot more, the same as ridiculous pre-amplifiers for phono, what a snake oil dripping
I buy and sell CDs, and man it's funny when I tell people that because they look at me crazy. Music is one of life's greatest gifts in my opinion. Thanks for showing us your collection.
Absolutely loved this video! Got my first CD Player, way back in 1992, when I was only 12/13 years old. Even after having sudden/emergency brain surgery, back in 2020, I can still recall my first CD purchase: Iron Maiden's Fear Of The Dark, which I still own, but just not that same exact copy. As a now old man 🙂, CD's are the last form of media that I still buy physically, and will be the last form of media that I ever will buy physically. I stopped buying movies physically, mainly because I would only watch them once, maybe twice, and then even stopped buying video games physically, after the era of the Xbox 360, PS3 and Wii era, but that mainly being because nothing was actually complete on a disc/cartridge anymore, and too much was having to be downloaded over the internet, which then started to make less sense to me of even buying them physically anymore. I love my CD's, and still buy current bands'/artists' releases, as recently as just a few days ago on eBay. I even still check at Goodwill stores, and other thrift stores as well, for CD's that I may want/like. Long live the CD!!! 😃👍
First CD I ever heard was Yes 90125, had to be in 1984 or 85. Highschool friend had a top of the line system and he scared the crap out of me with the opening to Owner of a Lonely Heart. No sound, no hiss, nothing - then BAM. I will never forget it. I bought a CD player and that CD because of it. Still have the CD.
I appreciate anyone who is also an audiophile. I too had a huge cd collection at one time, but I am now recollecting my favorite eras. Music is so much better than what’s on tv, mostly.
I am still collecting CDs starting with the first days they approached without interruption. This audio format is excellent. I use a spray for cleaning windows and a soft micro cloth.
I currently have in excess of 14,000 CD's and only stream to discover new music as I have yet to find a streaming platform which sounds as good as my 1987 PHILIPS CD player with the legendary PHILIPS TDA 1512 DAC. Even my outboard DAC does not sound as good. I will never stop buying CD's as they are cheap and sound fantastic on a good system which I have.
What most people don't know is, the data on the CD is actually on the label side. So don't worry about scratches on the other side. Now is the best time to buy used CDs, because of the vinyl revival, people are getting rid of them. Here in London we have many charity shops where you can find CD's for £1 or less! And I've been collection vinyl since late 70's and CD's since they came out.
The laser focuses right past the scratches and usually doesn't see them at all. You are right, now is the time to pick up whatever you need to fill holes in your collection. :)
You can mix up a batch of tooth paste and water, use it to polish in radial strokes (inner to outer) and 90% of the scratches will disappear. I have even restored game console disks for the neighbor's kid.
@@InsideOfMyOwnMind That's true, but only for deep circular scratches. For most perpendicular scratches the laser doesn't have problems reading thru it
@@EzeeLinux that´s why if you have a cd player that aleready played hundreds of cds just by having a almost not noticable scratch, they skip while 80´s cds they can not have any brightness of being cleaned with scoth-brite and sonasol but all song play perfect ,new material made them cheaper but also worst
Used CDs from $2-$3 at record stores and thrift shops are amazing. You can replace the jewel case if you need be and looks brand new in your collection. Now is the time!
@@treff9226 Goldmine? I will admit I love browsing used stores, but to look at this as an investment, my, I sold off 2/3 of my mint vinyl a while back for pennies on the dollar, & had many CD's out at garage sales in min condition I couldn't get any interest in.
I can spot Tom petty "Full moon fever" a mile away. Got back into collecting CDs this year myself, been picking classics for 99 cents at Goodwill by the dozens 😅 love it. You got a nice collection and subscribed.
I noticed when they started putting pictures on the discs, circa 1990, cheaper cd players couldnt read them. Especially when the picture was thick paint.I never had any problem with the 80s cds like the Target cd design. I was in Walmart a couple weeks ago, and they played " zanzibar" in store, how odd they played a deep cut that gets extremely old-school jazz by the end. I was the only one in the store singing along lol. My first cd was Genesis " wind and wuthering", then i bought the 1994 edition cd, and it was inferior to my original, but the 2007 remaster blows it away.
I buy CDs because I want to own my music collection. And yes, I also have to replace the occasional jewel case every now and then. _"You will own nothing and be happy."_ NO THANKS!!!
Great music should be purchased in its entirety, to have a physical CD or record is a deeply personal and meaningful act, and it fully supports the artist themselves! I look at my music collection with pride and big satisfaction! 🎸
Hi 👋 I own a large collection of cds. All genres . You mentioned cleaning yours with water and dish washing liquid. I once did that with my vinyl records years ago. It did the trick. I use the solution Isopropyl Alcohol for cleaning purposes of my cds. With a soft cloth it works well. I can remember standing in a record shop and the retail assistant was demonstrating to a group of us how to use a cd player. This was back in the 1980s. We certainly have come along way since then with technology. From Carl in NZ.
I have the first 3 yes albums on CD, didn't get into their later stuff. Also have Best of Joe Walsh and Edgar Winter they only come out at night. Had them on record, 8-track, cassette and CD. Also have found a lot of vintage jazz lounge MCM big band stuff. CDs are fun!
The symbol on the CD’s were initially ONLY used on the vinyl and cassette formats in late 1987. The original Japanese pressings did not have the symbol on the disc.
As far as the “Target Label” CD’s, don’t let people tell you that those issues are more expensive! I’ve found several like that for between 99 cents to $2.95.
And, for me, the first CD I remember seeing was the Vertigo Records pressing for Def Leppard’s 1983 album, “Pyromania”, not either one of the Billy Joel titles.
Good for you. I too still love CD's. At auction last week I got a box of over 200 new cd cases and 40 dvd cases for only $25 Australian. what a get. I love it sometimes when the masses are stupid because it means the rest of us benefit with mega cheap prices.
Been collecting vinyl since 2017 but I've also been buying a lot more CDs lately (17 this year so far), especially jazz albums because the vinyl copies are so expensive!
You can find great used Jazz CD's for cheap. Went for a coffee today and found first Blue Note CD pressing of Louis Armstrong with Duke Ellington for £1! 😁
Very impressed with your collection there I was curious I always ask this question to people who have huge music collections. How do you keep track of it? Do you use a music catalogue program? Kind of curious and it looks like you have some really nice speakers there I think part of the music collecting process is having a decent music system to play them on
Physically, either dedicated shelves sized for cds, purchase or diy, or office style boxes cut down to height of cds, or transparent sided nylon canvas cd bags, sold on Amazon, etc. Hold about 50 disc's per bag, stackable, can read spines as stored.
Yes, I have been a fan of compact discs for nearly 40 years, well 38 years. I heard them on the FM radio and listened to a slight difference, too. My 1st CD was Peter Gabriel's "So" and I also had it on LP as well, the CD had NO SURFACE NOISE. My most dynamic-sounding CD is the original concept recording of "Chess" by Tim Rice, Benny Andersson & Bjorn Ulvaeus on RCA. My strangest CD is Monty Python's "The Final Rip-Off," where the playing side is still silver, but the label side has turned a light yellow/light gold color. (Virgin, UK, 1987) Since I bought "So" in 1986, I have bought about 4000 CDs or more individual releases and multi-disc box sets and probably 1500 blank CD-Rs as well. All genres of music: mostly rock, jazz, classical, "pop", reggae, spoken word - comedy, too. The main body of my collection is the Grateful Dead.
@@RobertQuant yes i only buy them if no more than 3.5 € and sometimes are better releases than the current ones like some bands changed songs on their old Lp´s, which is sad
Enjoyed reading that post! Grateful Dead is a band I didn't fully understand till a few years ago - now I'm buying up ALL their stuff, even Jerry's solo material! Question for you, how long do you think our cd's will last, I started collecting when you did, and now have about ten thousand CD's. Take care.
Don't know about a come back but I'll roll with it. This is why I'm glad I "save" things , norms call it hoarding lol. I did this in reverse. I wanted to get all of my DVD/CD on spinning rust. You can't sell them or even give them away. It started as a gift idea to rip and or download all old TV shows/Movies that my Dad used to watch as a kid. Needless to say he doesn't like change. I had amazing bootleg connection 20 years ago so I also have duffle bags of movies. It took a while after also incorporating music but its all easily accessible over a network share on the Spy Tv's, I mean Smart TV's. He also hates the smart TV so I kept it simple. It was a meaningful gift and if the internet goes away, who knows in this world, we have decades of entertainment. It took a long time to rip them all but like I said, worth it in the end.
I have been collecting cds 💿 since 1991 .I have got my cds from music clubs stores and to this day. I still enjoy buying and listening to cds 💿 I have them billy Joel albums on vinyl and his essential and greatest hits on cds 💿. My first cds was guns n roses use your illusion 1 and 2 when i got my boom box from my grandmother. And when I got to start collecting cds 💿 .I would get all my cassettes on cds 💿
I enjoyed this! Thanks for sharing some of your older CDs. Now, I'm still learning and picking up on the finer details, but I think your copy of Billy Joel's "The Stranger" is a late-80s print, not an earlier one. I base this on the design of the disc's hub and that the case has a "The Nice Price" sticker. Also, it's blurry on the camera, but the DIDX/DIDP code on the disc looked like it's six digits with a "0" at the start of it which DADC implemented in 1988. I soft-clapped when you opened up your copy of Donald Fagen's "The Nightfly" to reveal a Target disc inside. That was a neat little surprise! I found a Target disc of Yes' "90125" in the wild earlier this year, though it has some permanent fingerprints on the label side. At any rate, it was my first time listening to the album in full. I'm always impressed whenever I see a CD from the early-80s that's been so well preserved, like your copy of Bruce Springsteen's "Born in the USA." If it says "COMPACT DISC CSR" embossed in the disc's inner hub, then I think it is indeed the earliest print for it in the US. I read that when DADC began producing CDs in the US, this album was the first one they printed. Sorry for nerding out, here. Couldn't help myself. Heh.
Nerd-on... You are most likely right about The Stranger but they used the same master as the original and that is what counts for me. Columbia tweaked later reissues and I'd rather hear the original, thank you. :)
I've read about that, too, not just limited to Columbia. Personally, I haven't heard much difference when I've had the chance to compare a newer disc from an older one of the same album, but I believe what you're saying. Also, yesterday I found a Target disc of Donald Fagen's "The Nightfly" in the wild, a Japan-for-USA half-Target version. Quite the coincidence, after having watched this video lately! Thanks for the musical mojo!
I'm 60 y.o. My recollection is that cds were $15.49 at Turtles and Camelot, $15.99 at Record Bar. An import from Japan would be $21 or $23. The 1983 Toshiba-Odeon 'Abbey Road' was one such pricey release. You didn't mention that Abba's 'The Visitors' was the first pop cd ever pressed (late 1982) but it was not available until after those first 50 Columbia titles released worldwide in February 1983.
Just started watching this video and heard the name Phil Ramone mentioned... who knew one man achieved so much. I was watching a video about tbe Caroenters as he produced Karen's Solo album allong with other tracks by the Capenters. I had no idea of how much stuff he'd worked on untill I read his Wikipedia page. Great video as usual Joe.... if you're interested in seeing old CD Players etc being repaired and serviced take a look at 12volt vids here on youtube. He's an ex Sony service tech who keeps old video and audio equipment alive .
Phil was one of my idols and I reached out to him in 2008 to tell im so. To my surprise, he responded and we became acquainted. He had no reason to but he was very kind to me... Get his book called "Making Records" and you'll be amazed even more.
I've been buying cds since 92, won't ever stop. The only vinyl I get is special/ limited edition pressings from artists I really like but that is for collecting purposes.
i only hear vinyl because it as better sound than cds or i had bought everything i have in record ,in cd but it´s the reverse . Some never had a aceptable record player that i understand but cd have levels , mixing and sound all wrong compared with vinyl , if one really likes music records are still the only format to show the work done in a studio but digital masters converted to vinyl they sound very good ,here the problem is only the 70´s developed format or the cds and while labels like sony makes millions all years by selling them we`ll never have a decent digital format as the DAT in the 80´s it several times better than the cd format, at the time i even compared it with the open reel decks. But there is another but , that is if i had only this new wave of turntables cartridges and stylus i would not buy a record as they even with a cost of thousands of € stay behind any decent turntable prior to the 2000´s ,as an example technics in early 90´s was selling very good turntables around 100€ at todays prices and they are better with a lot of use than a thousand €´s pro-ject bought two monthes ago, where all specifications are wrong for the worst and the technics used thousands of times still have their specifications correct which are the same or much better
Hey, Joe! Just found your channel, as I’m an avid CD collector myself. I saw your other video on compilations and when you got to Good Morning Vietnam and started talking about Adrian Cronauer, I was of course thinking about the fact that he once worked for WFIR, a station I was with for years. Glad I was sitting down when you talked about him ending up in Roanoke just as I was thinking that! I spent nearly 25 years in the Roanoke-Lynchburg market at various stations. Are you still at B99?
I noticed besides your Billy Joel some other favourites of mine including HLN Sports and Fore albums and some ELO and that Bangles box set looks interesting. I have so many CDs now that some are kept in kitchen draws, suitcases, bookshelves, baby prams you name it. I still think it strange about the vinyl revival when CDs came out to overcome all those problems associated with vinyl. The only plus I can think of with vinyl is the large package you get but that aside CDs are still the best and now they have created a new CD that can hold 20x what the previous ones could. Cheerio.
Seems like we are of the same generation. I'm born in 1973, and even remember a world without Television and mobile phones! … and still we survived without knowing everything about our family, friends and houndres of acquaintances and what they did all day, every day. ;-) I too collect CDs, although I only ripp them using an old Gnome program, «grip» (I am the current maintainer) and store the physical CDs in boxes in an upstairs storage room. There is nothing that can compete with having a local copy of media one consumes. I do not use any music of movie/TV streaming service. I have everything on local drives. I don't think the younger genearation have any idea that they don't really own things they think they «bought» on streaming services like Netflix, UA-cam Premium, Apple Music and so on. They actually don't Buy the content, they Rent it. If I can't buy something on a CD or DVD, I am not buying it and will find it elsewhere, and I have no qualms of the legality of grabbing, uhm, «the Linux ISOs» as the Linus Tech Tips WAN Show calls it. :-) One reason i don't care about the legality is that the norwegian government actually pays for the private copying for private use anually via a «mutual fund» which was created in 1982. I have a portable Samsung USB DVD burner which I use for the ripping of CDs, and I still have at least 10 internal DVD RW drives upstairs for computer cases that still allow for mounting internal optical drives. Greetings from Norway.
I should be well north of 10000 cds, spread across 2 homes. Majority collected past 15-20 years at thrift stores, yard sales. Bought first cds 1984, first player March 1985. In recent years getting far more picky at thrift, and focusing on completing specific artist discographies, recent new box sets, specific cds recommendationed by audiophiles, etc.
39 yrs for me, have about 400 CD SACD. L.P.s once owned about 300 and I just hate any type of distortion. So gave them all away with no remorse. 52nd street is my favorite of all his work. Donald Fagen Night Fly, what a great album, probable my best LP for the least amount of distortion and of course own the CD. And own Dave Brubeck CD, that is a great recording..........we seem to have the same taste. However........most of my listening is on, you won't believe it, FM. Because commercial free Jazz station that plays Jazz I like, all my FM Tuners (23) are 1970's Analog and the sound is unbelievable especially with a Pioneer TX 9500 MKII or a Kenwood KT 9900 or Marantz 120b, all of which have been re-capped. That was a interesting fact about flash drive.
till 1979 ,all components even with lower power had several times better sound TX are tuners but i have a SA-9500MKII integrated amplifier which is great i have it with a set of JBL´s from late 80´s it sounds amazing good, as kenwood and marantz were from the best available in the 70´s
I’ve ripped my 400+ CD collection to FLAC, copied them to an m.2 SSD which I installed in my Eversolo DMP-A6. My original CDs are stored in their cases and kept for posterity. 90% of my CDs were bought in the 80’s & 90’s. I’ve also bought about 20 SACDs. My latest is Dire Straits Brothers in Arms which is a favorite. Sad SACD never took off. They sound great.
Hiya, I’ve been collecting CDs also for 40 years. Here a question for y’all ( I don’t know the answer but have suspects). What was the first movie soundtrack to appear on a CD?
I fly all over the country/world and go into thrift stores looking for CDs. The amount of money I save (by not being a vinyl nutjub) goes into the airfare and hotel.
Hi Joe just tuned into your channel, great stuff , I'm 72 & started off with vinyl as obviously it was more or less the only format around way back in the day I loved my records & took good care of them but ve to agree gibe me cds any day I get all the stuff about vinyl having this warm sound etc etc but I've had it both ways & prefer cd end of !! Amazing cd library , I took your point re different pressings / editions sounding different I recently updated my collection of Jackson Brown strangely enough comparing earlier issues & reissues have always found the vocals on the muffled side , wondering if you came across this or anyone else Keep the videos coming 😀
It’s refreshing to see you open the jewel cases the correct way ( with thumb and index finger of the left hand), and not with two thumbs as I see so often ( a great way of creaking the case) 👍
@@treff9226 I’ve seen many people trying to open a jewel case like they are trying to open a hard back book. Fingers of both hands cradling the spine of the case and thumbs opening the case. Problem is the case tightens closed so people force it open, creaking the plastic. This is many don’t like the jewel case; they don’t know the correct way to open it.
@@kirkhilton3798 Thanks for response, I get it now and shamefully, I believe I've stupidly used the "two thumb approach" but quickly realized it was not beneficial! Nobody wants to be "all thumbs"! 😁
The first CD I bought was in 1987, “Crazy in the Night” 4 track ep, by an American metal band called Malice on the Roadracer records label. Still looks great, original cd tray and no damage. I love physical media Cd, vinyl, dvd, bluray, uhd)…can’t beat that touching it, flicking through the booklet or reading the cover (vinyl). I’m so glad I buy physical media
Recently started buying vinyl again at Goodwill and Estate Sales. Realized that it could be expensive still, i decided to buy cds also. Been getting some as cheap as .50 and am really having fun finding some gems. A couple weeks ago i got a 6 disc player for $20 and really enjoy that.
I copied all of my cds onto iTunes in the early 2000s and then sold them later on I now own a couple of modded iPods with that entire collection I play the music through my stereo set up using an iPod dock that has built in DAC and sounds great but I have thought about collecting them again in the same way that I've been buying vinyl albums and singles again
What I don’t understand is all these people sell their cds 💿 for convience but at the end of the day regret 😅😅😅😅😅 selling them cause their iPods 📱 crash and lose ur music easlit Cds 💿 are backups forever 😅😅😅😅💿💿💽📀📀📀🙏🙏
I put my cassettes cds 💿 and vinyls from A to Z so I got all my music genres all together. I have been wanting to get a cd 💿 recorder for years I used to burn my cds 💿 from a computer.
i own a cd-r from pioneer when they appeared and all sound good today while the first ones i recorded on a computer all got dark and no sound to hear but this when cd-roms were very high quality sound recording and mine was from a white brand or none
The Other format that is better is Mini disc - at least the disc in those cases are protected a bit better. I wished Sony would bring that format back but Ohh well.
In the words of that great & eloquent poet James Brown: Please, Please, Please do not use the term "Vinyls" to describe RECORDS when in the presence of RECORD collectors. It drives us absolutely mad! Not all records are made of vinyl anyway. I'm sure that Joe has done some videos on the subject. Please & Thank You!
They are getting expensive again tho. In some cases I have spotted a good condition lp for less than cd price...so I'm not surprised people are going streaming.
Actually streaming is goi g to get more expensive like Spotify 😂😂🤦♂️😂😂😂😂😂 that’s gonna make people go back to physical media 📀📀💿💿📀💽💽🙏🙏🙏🤟🤟 cds forever 😊
I'm a vinyl guy. I remember walking into a new cd-only store in 1988. It was depressing, because i knew that this terribly generic store was the way of the future. After 1990, vinyl was all but obsolete, and i was forced to buy cds. I bought as much new vinyl as was available, but didn't amount to much. I was actually an early cd adopter - got my cd player in 86. I liked the ability to skip tracks, but the sound was hit or miss. They were in a rush to get all the old releases on cd, so some sounded very compressed. Others, like Queens " the miracle" sounded great. The vinyl of that is likely only inferior , due to the length of it. The sound is not the issue though, i love vinyl for the gatefold, the posters etc. The history of music is aligned with vinyl. Trying to read liner notes on a cd is a chore. I'm ecstatic about the vinyl revival, but with all the streaming, I'd be happy if consumers bought ANY physical format. True music fans have dwindled to the point that i rarely find anyone to " talk music" with ( outside my inner circle)
I like your reminiscing. 1st player was the lowest end DENON in 'fall 1985. I have about 3k discs and about 1k LPs. I've made more purchases of new and better quality second hand LPs (rather than new CDs) since I got my system 'refurbished" (including all new, better interconnects) and new TT during the C-V days of 2020-21. I' ve ripped many to mp3 and then flac for a series of better and better DAPs. A terrabyte on DAP is far from enough; I want to have 'all my files on one device. But a few hundred LPs and some CDs not ripped. But with so much on a device, players software to organize into favorites and playlists is a huge chore. I also have that CD recorder, CD player is a 1990 Denon DCD 1400 which had it's belt replaced in 1998 or 1999. NAD integrated amp and a cassette deck are the other 2 vintage pieces I have, dating from 1988, had to to refurb. / repair in 2023-24.
Ima cds 💿 seller in 2024 and collector and I love cds 💿 and ima keep supporting artist 🧑🎨 and sell them even though it’s really hard when too many people are streaming 🤢🤢🤢🤮🤮🤮 let’s keep physical media alive and support are our artist cds 💿 better sound quality u own the music forever ano internet and ur helping the artist get payed for their work 👍👍👍📀📀📀🙏🙏🤟🤟🤟🤟😎😎😎😎
i have to agree with you as streaming if you´re not recording all you like is the same of having a tuner only , good music all day but if somethin`fails no sound to hear
I feel what your saying, great comment and I could .never imagine NOT buying CD's as I listen to full albums and insist on OWNING the music I love, looking at the liner notes, the artwork, just the feeling of having the actual, physical album in my collection. Got over ten thousand CD's, proud of my collection! Cheers!
CD's were a superior format, one thing I envied about the younger set not having to deal with Vinyl . . Bought my first player in early '86. CD's never should need cleaning, never touch the surface, handle by edges. One of my first CD's was Glass Houses.
Do any of you collectors have a sense of vacuousness the more you collect? Or is collecting just wholly and completely satisfying? Asking for a psychology course.
Ah, early CDs, from back when dynamic range was a selling point for ditching your vinyls. Yes, I just said vinyls. 🤣 Most modern day players are just using DVD transports, which is funny that they should skip because read ahead tech is not even special today. I have worked on players that you could lift the CD off the player, put it back and it would spin it up and never miss a beat.
Records, dammit! LOL If they are putting DVD transports in these machines, they are the cheapest they can find. A good DVD transport has to be more rugged than what you use for CD alone but I think they're all pretty chintzy these days. I'm still lookin, though. :)
@@EzeeLinux As a side note, if you have a DVD player that won't play movies anymore sometimes they will still play CDs. You would be aMAZED at how many people don't even know you can play a CD in a DVD player.
@@treff9226 As far as I know, any CD, CDR, CDRW,etc. You can even put a DTS 5.1 music file on a CDR, run any type digital path to your surround receiver and it will play in 5.1. It doesn't matter if it's a CD or DVD player as long as it's using the digital output.
I love records and CD;s...even tapes, but CD is the best format. Especially for buying second hand, Records are just sexier and tapes more nostalgic for me, because that was the format I was buying when I first stared buying my own music. I used to by vinyl if they never had an album on tape 😂. When I moved to CD's I used to buy tapes if they never had the album on CD 😂 Them later tapes are surprisingly valuable now. Don't sound great though...just nostalgic to me.
Looks like my old gaming Library, Have software, games and music from back in the early 90's. Yep need to do a bit of cleaning myself. Have some Vinyls to from back in the 50's to even a Elvis. Going to give some of it away as my kids won't know what to do with most of it, they don't game. some of it stored away in a bedroom.
eBay is your friend, then. You can buy nice refrubed units for not much money and if it breaks just buy another. I was going to say that in the vid but got side tracked.
Lots of good players now. Not to be seen at common dept. or big box stores. At mid to high-end prices, and from compact to full component size. The ' chips' - DAC etc., in new players, are not not the same as of the 90s. Either a big plus or a minus for those really into it. Used, serviced gear is out there, if the old sound is your path.
i think all have their preferencies i might prefer records but have a litle more than 5.000cds not all sound bad, what i know is that all cds released till late 90´s when analog intruemnts are in use more often happened with electric instruments sound very poor ,they have a weak sound, when buying more cds i didn´t knew this and i was sick of buying cds ,thinking they would sound good ,but when playing them they missed most of the original sound kind of stéril and dynamic less sound, ATCO were very cheap cds edited by that company they used to cost around what today is 7€ ,others what today is 35€ only after 1990 cds started to be released made of a cheaper material at the time cds price decreased to a aceptable price, even stranger is the better amplifier speakers and cd player you have the worst they sound as so poor they were recorded
LP records DO NOT sound better nor are in any way "better" than a properly mastered CD. I say properly mastered because vinyl pundits will point out comparisons with poorly mastered CDs with loudness cranked up vs. the same album on a vinyl which have to be carefully mastered due to the physical limitations of the format. The Compact Disc was purposely engineered with the vinyl as the reference to beat and the goal was met and exceeded even with the poor Sigma-Delta A/D encoders and mediocre DACs of the early 80's. Any one who's spend a lifetime playing musical instruments, lived inside recording studios and live venues will tell you which format registers and captures better the natural source of the music (instrument/vocals). So now, after years of evolution and development, suddenly LP vinyls are "better" because of course the hipsters and social media made this trend viral. Well, enjoy your pops-clicks, wear, wow & flutter, speed inaccuracies, static/hum, limited dynamic range, narrow frequency response, S/N ratio, and SPL roll off at the end of the audible human spectrum, especially when buying worn-out records stored in attics and storage units that flooded the market because they are now valuable collectables. Records sound great. Unless you stick strictly new fresh pressings with a decent turntable-phono-preamp combo, you are fooling yourself or being fooled. Old worn records will damage your stylus and sound bad even with a good system (because everyone has a $50K vinyl rig with a high-end turntable+arm-stylus+phono-preamp kit instead of the run-of-the-mill 'potato' record player w/Bluetooth/USB interface commonly sold on Amazon, right?). Oh, and don't forget a good dynamically transparent amp plus a pair of revealing effortless speakers to round up the audio chain with quality interconnects (not the esoteric audiofool BS). And careful room treatment, an often overlooked but extremely important part that affects the listening experience. Audio is a very subjective hobby, unfortunately, but in its fundamentals it's still a science (because physics). As Julian Hirsch used to say "If it sounds good to you, then it's good for you". Enjoy the music first.
Don't let the numbers fool your, my friend. There are bad sounding CD"s and great sounding records and vice versa galore. That debate can rage on forever... That said, records can do things CD's only dream of. Yes, you have to invest in good gear but it doesn't have to be extravagant and clean records are a must but there is an extra layer of depth and meaning I simply don't hear from any digital source. I have worked in radio and recording for my entire adult life and actually know what a master tape sounds like. I also know how much is lost when that tape is transferred to digital. For convenience, it's acceptable but unless you have heard the difference it's hard to explain. All I can say is you do you.... Don't wanna play records? Don;t! But... don't pee on others parades about it. :)
Stop it. No no no. Cds are terrible and you shouldn't collect them. Stick to overrated vinyl. So nostalgic so awesome,buy them instead. Or buy cassettes. They're certainly not disposable garbage that should be in a landfill. You all should buy them instead. Please leave cds alone,preferably for me to pick up cheaply. Operative word being cheaply. Rising popularity means rising cost. For me in particular. Discogs sellers already have gotten on the ridiculously expensive cd train. Lets derail that train. Buy cds if you want but hush up about it. Your blowing it for cheapskates like me. Lol. Cheers anyway.
Not only are your Linux videos inaccurate, but so are your audio videos. Do some research prior to posting things you claim to be fact whether Linux are audio. I've been doing this a tad longer thenyou, so I know what I'm talking about. You present material well, it's just not accurate.
@@RobertQuant good for you. But they leave me cold. (And they sound more flat, tiny and metallic to me. And there is nothing to look at when they spin).
I currently have north of 600 CDs! I appreciate the aesthetic of the shiny round disc, the feel of the plastic jewel case.. the clear clean sound. I also have a ton of vinyl and a lot of mp3s.. but honestly, CDs (in my opinion) are about the best medium for music. I will keep collecting. Videos like yours are motivating! Thanks for posting it!
i prefer sound quality to clear clean sound missing almost half of the sounds on the recording that ´s why i never bought older lp´s i had in vinyl , as i always took care of them as they should be handled not crazy like wearing gloves and whatever those lunatics do
Yeah cds are bettwer than overpriced vinyl. I dont need listen to pop, cracks and hum from vinyl. And everytime you listen to vinyl, stylus destroys a bit. Cds are king
@@Watcher4111 for you might be true but in reality cds are not the best as they could already create a more evolved format not the 70´s developed cd, yes it´s true but cd players don´t last as long as a turntable if ancient ,these new things couldn´t be called turntable but strange vinyl readers as the cartridges at a very high price are not the same as cartridges and stylus sold till the year 2000, i own more than 5.000 cds and 15.000 records(a bit more)but i´m using 70´s ,80´s and 90´s turntables when they were really good ,cd players i have them very expensive ones with great specifications but it´s a converted sound and converted again for one to hear it ,DAc´s are not expensive if bought internal ones as a internal one can cost 50€ with assembly and a external DAC with the same quality only from 500€ to a lot more, the same as ridiculous pre-amplifiers for phono, what a snake oil dripping
Wow i love your cd collection. Ive been collectiNg since 2004 and its still growing and have no plans of changing my music format.
I’m almost there having a big collection I think I have 1,000 cds but I need more bookshelves
I buy and sell CDs, and man it's funny when I tell people that because they look at me crazy. Music is one of life's greatest gifts in my opinion. Thanks for showing us your collection.
Keep going brooo streaming is for lazyyyyy people I do the same thing I love buying cds 💿 supporting the artist and selling them also
Absolutely loved this video! Got my first CD Player, way back in 1992, when I was only 12/13 years old. Even after having sudden/emergency brain surgery, back in 2020, I can still recall my first CD purchase: Iron Maiden's Fear Of The Dark, which I still own, but just not that same exact copy. As a now old man 🙂, CD's are the last form of media that I still buy physically, and will be the last form of media that I ever will buy physically. I stopped buying movies physically, mainly because I would only watch them once, maybe twice, and then even stopped buying video games physically, after the era of the Xbox 360, PS3 and Wii era, but that mainly being because nothing was actually complete on a disc/cartridge anymore, and too much was having to be downloaded over the internet, which then started to make less sense to me of even buying them physically anymore. I love my CD's, and still buy current bands'/artists' releases, as recently as just a few days ago on eBay. I even still check at Goodwill stores, and other thrift stores as well, for CD's that I may want/like. Long live the CD!!! 😃👍
First CD I ever heard was Yes 90125, had to be in 1984 or 85. Highschool friend had a top of the line system and he scared the crap out of me with the opening to Owner of a Lonely Heart. No sound, no hiss, nothing - then BAM. I will never forget it. I bought a CD player and that CD because of it. Still have the CD.
My friend had a more modest system but one listen and I could tell digital was the future. Great story! Thanks for sharing.
I appreciate anyone who is also an audiophile. I too had a huge cd collection at one time, but I am now recollecting my favorite eras. Music is so much better than what’s on tv, mostly.
I am still collecting CDs starting with the first days they approached without interruption. This audio format is excellent. I use a spray for cleaning windows and a soft micro cloth.
I currently have in excess of 14,000 CD's and only stream to discover new music as I have yet to find a streaming platform which sounds as good as my 1987 PHILIPS CD player with the legendary PHILIPS TDA 1512 DAC. Even my outboard DAC does not sound as good. I will never stop buying CD's as they are cheap and sound fantastic on a good system which I have.
What most people don't know is, the data on the CD is actually on the label side.
So don't worry about scratches on the other side.
Now is the best time to buy used CDs, because of the vinyl revival, people are getting rid of them.
Here in London we have many charity shops where you can find CD's for £1 or less!
And I've been collection vinyl since late 70's and CD's since they came out.
The laser focuses right past the scratches and usually doesn't see them at all. You are right, now is the time to pick up whatever you need to fill holes in your collection. :)
You can mix up a batch of tooth paste and water, use it to polish in radial strokes (inner to outer) and 90% of the scratches will disappear. I have even restored game console disks for the neighbor's kid.
@@InsideOfMyOwnMind That's true, but only for deep circular scratches.
For most perpendicular scratches the laser doesn't have problems reading thru it
@@PedroMiguel-if3ll You are correct but only due to error correction.
@@EzeeLinux that´s why if you have a cd player that aleready played hundreds of cds just by having a almost not noticable scratch, they skip while 80´s cds they can not have any brightness of being cleaned with scoth-brite and sonasol but all song play perfect ,new material made them cheaper but also worst
Most CDs also include cool little booklets loaded with photos and info!
Don’t forget bonus tracks
Used CDs from $2-$3 at record stores and thrift shops are amazing. You can replace the jewel case if you need be and looks brand new in your collection. Now is the time!
They have "cheapened" the CD Jewel Cases significantly.
Facts! Used CDs are a virtual gold mine! The hunt for used CD treasure is damn fun as well!
@@treff9226 Goldmine? I will admit I love browsing used stores, but to look at this as an investment, my, I sold off 2/3 of my mint vinyl a while back for pennies on the dollar, & had many CD's out at garage sales in min condition I couldn't get any interest in.
I can spot Tom petty "Full moon fever" a mile away. Got back into collecting CDs this year myself, been picking classics for 99 cents at Goodwill by the dozens 😅 love it. You got a nice collection and subscribed.
I noticed when they started putting pictures on the discs, circa 1990, cheaper cd players couldnt read them. Especially when the picture was thick paint.I never had any problem with the 80s cds like the Target cd design. I was in Walmart a couple weeks ago, and they played " zanzibar" in store, how odd they played a deep cut that gets extremely old-school jazz by the end. I was the only one in the store singing along lol. My first cd was Genesis " wind and wuthering", then i bought the 1994 edition cd, and it was inferior to my original, but the 2007 remaster blows it away.
I buy CDs because I want to own my music collection.
And yes, I also have to replace the occasional jewel case every now and then.
_"You will own nothing and be happy."_ NO THANKS!!!
Same here... :)
Thanks same here ima need more bookshelves like ur video for my cds 💿 😊
Another switched on and smart soul. Not many out there I;m afraid. Cheerio fellow CD fan.
Great music should be purchased in its entirety, to have a physical CD or record is a deeply personal and meaningful act, and it fully supports the artist themselves! I look at my music collection with pride and big satisfaction! 🎸
I buy nothing but used CD's and I have found that Goo Gone is excellent for cleaning jewel cases, works incredibly well!
Hi 👋 I own a large collection of cds. All genres . You mentioned cleaning yours with water and dish washing liquid. I once did that with my vinyl records years ago. It did the trick. I use the solution Isopropyl Alcohol for cleaning purposes of my cds. With a soft cloth it works well. I can remember standing in a record shop and the retail assistant was demonstrating to a group of us how to use a cd player. This was back in the 1980s. We certainly have come along way since then with technology. From Carl in NZ.
I have the first 3 yes albums on CD, didn't get into their later stuff. Also have Best of Joe Walsh and Edgar Winter they only come out at night. Had them on record, 8-track, cassette and CD. Also have found a lot of vintage jazz lounge MCM big band stuff. CDs are fun!
The symbol on the CD’s were initially ONLY used on the vinyl and cassette formats in late 1987. The original Japanese pressings did not have the symbol on the disc.
As far as the “Target Label” CD’s, don’t let people tell you that those issues are more expensive! I’ve found several like that for between 99 cents to $2.95.
And, for me, the first CD I remember seeing was the Vertigo Records pressing for Def Leppard’s 1983 album, “Pyromania”, not either one of the Billy Joel titles.
Beware of bit rot though. I've not encounted it with pressed discs yet - but I've heard it happening to DVDs and laserdiscs.
Love this video!
Good for you. I too still love CD's. At auction last week I got a box of over 200 new cd cases and 40 dvd cases for only $25 Australian. what a get. I love it sometimes when the masses are stupid because it means the rest of us benefit with mega cheap prices.
What a steal, nice job! You know just how much stores charge for jewel cases - total rip off!
Been collecting vinyl since 2017 but I've also been buying a lot more CDs lately (17 this year so far), especially jazz albums because the vinyl copies are so expensive!
You can find great used Jazz CD's for cheap. Went for a coffee today and found first Blue Note CD pressing of Louis Armstrong with Duke Ellington for £1! 😁
Very impressed with your collection there I was curious I always ask this question to people who have huge music collections. How do you keep track of it? Do you use a music catalogue program? Kind of curious and it looks like you have some really nice speakers there I think part of the music collecting process is having a decent music system to play them on
Physically, either dedicated shelves sized for cds, purchase or diy, or office style boxes cut down to height of cds, or transparent sided nylon canvas cd bags, sold on Amazon, etc. Hold about 50 disc's per bag, stackable, can read spines as stored.
Yes, I have been a fan of compact discs for nearly 40 years, well 38 years. I heard them on the FM radio and listened to a slight difference, too. My 1st CD was Peter Gabriel's "So" and I also had it on LP as well, the CD had NO SURFACE NOISE. My most dynamic-sounding CD is the original concept recording of "Chess" by Tim Rice, Benny Andersson & Bjorn Ulvaeus on RCA. My strangest CD is Monty Python's "The Final Rip-Off," where the playing side is still silver, but the label side has turned a light yellow/light gold color. (Virgin, UK, 1987) Since I bought "So" in 1986, I have bought about 4000 CDs or more individual releases and multi-disc box sets and probably 1500 blank CD-Rs as well. All genres of music: mostly rock, jazz, classical, "pop", reggae, spoken word - comedy, too. The main body of my collection is the Grateful Dead.
When I started buying cds 💿 they was 15.00 dollars .now they are 5 to 9 to 10 dollars.
@@kennethhardbargeriii2798only used cds 💿 are cheap brand new ones are still regular prices 😅
@@RobertQuant yes i only buy them if no more than 3.5 € and sometimes are better releases than the current ones like some bands changed songs on their old Lp´s, which is sad
Enjoyed reading that post! Grateful Dead is a band I didn't fully understand till a few years ago - now I'm buying up ALL their stuff, even Jerry's solo material! Question for you, how long do you think our cd's will last, I started collecting when you did, and now have about ten thousand CD's. Take care.
I can echo that experience when I first heard that CD and that very track. Still got my copy too
Don't know about a come back but I'll roll with it. This is why I'm glad I "save" things , norms call it hoarding lol. I did this in reverse. I wanted to get all of my DVD/CD on spinning rust. You can't sell them or even give them away. It started as a gift idea to rip and or download all old TV shows/Movies that my Dad used to watch as a kid. Needless to say he doesn't like change. I had amazing bootleg connection 20 years ago so I also have duffle bags of movies. It took a while after also incorporating music but its all easily accessible over a network share on the Spy Tv's, I mean Smart TV's. He also hates the smart TV so I kept it simple. It was a meaningful gift and if the internet goes away, who knows in this world, we have decades of entertainment. It took a long time to rip them all but like I said, worth it in the end.
Hi
Great vid! Long live the cd! I have been collecting them for 30 years and my current collection is around a 1000 cds. 😁
I have more than that and won’t stop soon
I have been collecting cds 💿 since 1991 .I have got my cds from music clubs stores and to this day. I still enjoy buying and listening to cds 💿 I have them billy Joel albums on vinyl and his essential and greatest hits on cds 💿. My first cds was guns n roses use your illusion 1 and 2 when i got my boom box from my grandmother. And when I got to start collecting cds 💿 .I would get all my cassettes on cds 💿
I enjoyed this! Thanks for sharing some of your older CDs.
Now, I'm still learning and picking up on the finer details, but I think your copy of Billy Joel's "The Stranger" is a late-80s print, not an earlier one. I base this on the design of the disc's hub and that the case has a "The Nice Price" sticker. Also, it's blurry on the camera, but the DIDX/DIDP code on the disc looked like it's six digits with a "0" at the start of it which DADC implemented in 1988.
I soft-clapped when you opened up your copy of Donald Fagen's "The Nightfly" to reveal a Target disc inside. That was a neat little surprise! I found a Target disc of Yes' "90125" in the wild earlier this year, though it has some permanent fingerprints on the label side. At any rate, it was my first time listening to the album in full.
I'm always impressed whenever I see a CD from the early-80s that's been so well preserved, like your copy of Bruce Springsteen's "Born in the USA." If it says "COMPACT DISC CSR" embossed in the disc's inner hub, then I think it is indeed the earliest print for it in the US. I read that when DADC began producing CDs in the US, this album was the first one they printed.
Sorry for nerding out, here. Couldn't help myself. Heh.
Nerd-on... You are most likely right about The Stranger but they used the same master as the original and that is what counts for me. Columbia tweaked later reissues and I'd rather hear the original, thank you. :)
I've read about that, too, not just limited to Columbia. Personally, I haven't heard much difference when I've had the chance to compare a newer disc from an older one of the same album, but I believe what you're saying.
Also, yesterday I found a Target disc of Donald Fagen's "The Nightfly" in the wild, a Japan-for-USA half-Target version. Quite the coincidence, after having watched this video lately! Thanks for the musical mojo!
I'm 60 y.o. My recollection is that cds were $15.49 at Turtles and Camelot, $15.99 at Record Bar. An import from Japan would be $21 or $23. The 1983 Toshiba-Odeon 'Abbey Road' was one such pricey release. You didn't mention that Abba's 'The Visitors' was the first pop cd ever pressed (late 1982) but it was not available until after those first 50 Columbia titles released worldwide in February 1983.
Just started watching this video and heard the name Phil Ramone mentioned... who knew one man achieved so much. I was watching a video about tbe Caroenters as he produced Karen's Solo album allong with other tracks by the Capenters. I had no idea of how much stuff he'd worked on untill I read his Wikipedia page.
Great video as usual Joe.... if you're interested in seeing old CD Players etc being repaired and serviced take a look at 12volt vids here on youtube. He's an ex Sony service tech who keeps old video and audio equipment alive .
Phil was one of my idols and I reached out to him in 2008 to tell im so. To my surprise, he responded and we became acquainted. He had no reason to but he was very kind to me... Get his book called "Making Records" and you'll be amazed even more.
You make me want to look to look at my bruce Springsteen collection.
I've been buying cds since 92, won't ever stop. The only vinyl I get is special/ limited edition pressings from artists I really like but that is for collecting purposes.
I gave all my records away in the early 90's and then started collecting again in 2010. I buy records to play them,. :)
i only hear vinyl because it as better sound than cds or i had bought everything i have in record ,in cd but it´s the reverse . Some never had a aceptable record player that i understand but cd have levels , mixing and sound all wrong compared with vinyl , if one really likes music records are still the only format to show the work done in a studio but digital masters converted to vinyl they sound very good ,here the problem is only the 70´s developed format or the cds and while labels like sony makes millions all years by selling them we`ll never have a decent digital format as the DAT in the 80´s it several times better than the cd format, at the time i even compared it with the open reel decks. But there is another but , that is if i had only this new wave of turntables cartridges and stylus i would not buy a record as they even with a cost of thousands of € stay behind any decent turntable prior to the 2000´s ,as an example technics in early 90´s was selling very good turntables around 100€ at todays prices and they are better with a lot of use than a thousand €´s pro-ject bought two monthes ago, where all specifications are wrong for the worst and the technics used thousands of times still have their specifications correct which are the same or much better
I brought down my 5 disc changer down from my closet and loaded them up with iron maiden cds 💿 sounded awesome
Cds better sound quality 📀📀📀🤟🤟 than cheap ass streaming 🤢🤢🤮🤮🤢🤮🤮🤮🤮
Iron Maiden kicks collective ass! Keep those Maiden albums close, they are as good as metal gets. UP THE IRONS!
Hey, Joe! Just found your channel, as I’m an avid CD collector myself. I saw your other video on compilations and when you got to Good Morning Vietnam and started talking about Adrian Cronauer, I was of course thinking about the fact that he once worked for WFIR, a station I was with for years. Glad I was sitting down when you talked about him ending up in Roanoke just as I was thinking that! I spent nearly 25 years in the Roanoke-Lynchburg market at various stations. Are you still at B99?
I noticed besides your Billy Joel some other favourites of mine including HLN Sports and Fore albums and some ELO and that Bangles box set looks interesting. I have so many CDs now that some are kept in kitchen draws, suitcases, bookshelves, baby prams you name it. I still think it strange about the vinyl revival when CDs came out to overcome all those problems associated with vinyl. The only plus I can think of with vinyl is the large package you get but that aside CDs are still the best and now they have created a new CD that can hold 20x what the previous ones could. Cheerio.
Seems like we are of the same generation. I'm born in 1973, and even remember a world without Television and mobile phones! … and still we survived without knowing everything about our family, friends and houndres of acquaintances and what they did all day, every day. ;-)
I too collect CDs, although I only ripp them using an old Gnome program, «grip» (I am the current maintainer) and store the physical CDs in boxes in an upstairs storage room.
There is nothing that can compete with having a local copy of media one consumes. I do not use any music of movie/TV streaming service. I have everything on local drives.
I don't think the younger genearation have any idea that they don't really own things they think they «bought» on streaming services like Netflix, UA-cam Premium, Apple Music and so on. They actually don't Buy the content, they Rent it.
If I can't buy something on a CD or DVD, I am not buying it and will find it elsewhere, and I have no qualms of the legality of grabbing, uhm, «the Linux ISOs» as the Linus Tech Tips WAN Show calls it. :-)
One reason i don't care about the legality is that the norwegian government actually pays for the private copying for private use anually via a «mutual fund» which was created in 1982.
I have a portable Samsung USB DVD burner which I use for the ripping of CDs, and I still have at least 10 internal DVD RW drives upstairs for computer cases that still allow for mounting internal optical drives.
Greetings from Norway.
How can you be born in 1973 and not lived without a TV set? I was born 10 years before you and vaguely remember watching TV from around 1972
I should be well north of 10000 cds, spread across 2 homes.
Majority collected past 15-20 years at thrift stores, yard sales.
Bought first cds 1984, first player March 1985.
In recent years getting far more picky at thrift, and focusing on completing specific artist discographies, recent new box sets, specific cds recommendationed by audiophiles, etc.
39 yrs for me, have about 400 CD SACD. L.P.s once owned about 300 and I just hate any type of distortion. So gave them all away with no remorse. 52nd street is my favorite of all his work. Donald Fagen Night Fly, what a great album, probable my best LP for the least amount of distortion and of course own the CD. And own Dave Brubeck CD, that is a great recording..........we seem to have the same taste. However........most of my listening is on, you won't believe it, FM. Because commercial free Jazz station that plays Jazz I like, all my FM Tuners (23) are 1970's Analog and the sound is unbelievable especially with a Pioneer TX 9500 MKII or a Kenwood KT 9900 or Marantz 120b, all of which have been re-capped. That was a interesting fact about flash drive.
till 1979 ,all components even with lower power had several times better sound TX are tuners but i have a SA-9500MKII integrated amplifier which is great i have it with a set of JBL´s from late 80´s it sounds amazing good, as kenwood and marantz were from the best available in the 70´s
I’ve ripped my 400+ CD collection to FLAC, copied them to an m.2 SSD which I installed in my Eversolo DMP-A6. My original CDs are stored in their cases and kept for posterity. 90% of my CDs were bought in the 80’s & 90’s.
I’ve also bought about 20 SACDs. My latest is Dire Straits Brothers in Arms which is a favorite. Sad SACD never took off. They sound great.
This is the only way to get the best quality recording.
Hiya, I’ve been collecting CDs also for 40 years. Here a question for y’all ( I don’t know the answer but have suspects). What was the first movie soundtrack to appear on a CD?
I fly all over the country/world and go into thrift stores looking for CDs. The amount of money I save (by not being a vinyl nutjub) goes into the airfare and hotel.
Hi Joe just tuned into your channel, great stuff , I'm 72 & started off with vinyl as obviously it was more or less the only format around way back in the day I loved my records & took good care of them but ve to agree gibe me cds any day I get all the stuff about vinyl having this warm sound etc etc but I've had it both ways & prefer cd end of !! Amazing cd library , I took your point re different pressings / editions sounding different I recently updated my collection of Jackson Brown strangely enough comparing earlier issues & reissues have always found the vocals on the muffled side , wondering if you came across this or anyone else Keep the videos coming 😀
It’s refreshing to see you open the jewel cases the correct way ( with thumb and index finger of the left hand), and not with two thumbs as I see so often ( a great way of creaking the case) 👍
I don't understand the "two thumbs" method for opening a jewel case.. how is that even possible?
@@treff9226 I’ve seen many people trying to open a jewel case like they are trying to open a hard back book. Fingers of both hands cradling the spine of the case and thumbs opening the case. Problem is the case tightens closed so people force it open, creaking the plastic. This is many don’t like the jewel case; they don’t know the correct way to open it.
@@kirkhilton3798 Thanks for response, I get it now and shamefully, I believe I've stupidly used the "two thumb approach" but quickly realized it was not beneficial! Nobody wants to be "all thumbs"! 😁
The first CD I bought was in 1987, “Crazy in the Night” 4 track ep, by an American metal band called Malice on the Roadracer records label. Still looks great, original cd tray and no damage. I love physical media Cd, vinyl, dvd, bluray, uhd)…can’t beat that touching it, flicking through the booklet or reading the cover (vinyl). I’m so glad I buy physical media
Recently started buying vinyl again at Goodwill and Estate Sales. Realized that it could be expensive still, i decided to buy cds also. Been getting some as cheap as .50 and am really having fun finding some gems. A couple weeks ago i got a 6 disc player for $20 and really enjoy that.
I copied all of my cds onto iTunes in the early 2000s and then sold them later on I now own a couple of modded iPods with that entire collection I play the music through my stereo set up using an iPod dock that has built in DAC and sounds great but I have thought about collecting them again in the same way that I've been buying vinyl albums and singles again
Be careful... You just admitted to mass copyright infringement.
What I don’t understand is all these people sell their cds 💿 for convience but at the end of the day regret 😅😅😅😅😅 selling them cause their iPods 📱 crash and lose ur music easlit Cds 💿 are backups forever 😅😅😅😅💿💿💽📀📀📀🙏🙏
I have about 700 cds I started collecting them was in the early 90s
I put my cassettes cds 💿 and vinyls from A to Z so I got all my music genres all together. I have been wanting to get a cd 💿 recorder for years I used to burn my cds 💿 from a computer.
i own a cd-r from pioneer when they appeared and all sound good today while the first ones i recorded on a computer all got dark and no sound to hear but this when cd-roms were very high quality sound recording and mine was from a white brand or none
Flea markets Ave 1000s. @ 1.00 each
The Other format that is better is Mini disc - at least the disc in those cases are protected a bit better. I wished Sony would bring that format back but Ohh well.
Around 1000 cds on my catalogue, and about 60 Vinyls. Started my collection in 2016 and non stop!
In the words of that great & eloquent poet James Brown: Please, Please, Please do not use the term "Vinyls" to describe RECORDS when in the presence of RECORD collectors. It drives us absolutely mad! Not all records are made of vinyl anyway. I'm sure that Joe has done some videos on the subject. Please & Thank You!
They are getting expensive again tho. In some cases I have spotted a good condition lp for less than cd price...so I'm not surprised people are going streaming.
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I'm a vinyl guy. I remember walking into a new cd-only store in 1988. It was depressing, because i knew that this terribly generic store was the way of the future. After 1990, vinyl was all but obsolete, and i was forced to buy cds. I bought as much new vinyl as was available, but didn't amount to much. I was actually an early cd adopter - got my cd player in 86. I liked the ability to skip tracks, but the sound was hit or miss. They were in a rush to get all the old releases on cd, so some sounded very compressed. Others, like Queens " the miracle" sounded great. The vinyl of that is likely only inferior , due to the length of it. The sound is not the issue though, i love vinyl for the gatefold, the posters etc. The history of music is aligned with vinyl. Trying to read liner notes on a cd is a chore. I'm ecstatic about the vinyl revival, but with all the streaming, I'd be happy if consumers bought ANY physical format. True music fans have dwindled to the point that i rarely find anyone to " talk music" with ( outside my inner circle)
I like your reminiscing.
1st player was the lowest end DENON in 'fall 1985. I have about 3k discs and about 1k LPs. I've made more purchases of new and better quality second hand LPs (rather than new CDs) since I got my system 'refurbished" (including all new, better interconnects) and new TT during the C-V days of 2020-21.
I' ve ripped many to mp3 and then flac for a series of better and better DAPs. A terrabyte on DAP is far from enough; I want to have 'all my files on one device. But a few hundred LPs and some CDs not ripped. But with so much on a device, players software to organize into favorites and playlists is a huge chore.
I also have that CD recorder, CD player is a 1990 Denon DCD 1400 which had it's belt replaced in 1998 or 1999. NAD integrated amp and a cassette deck are the other 2 vintage pieces I have, dating from 1988, had to to refurb. / repair in 2023-24.
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i have to agree with you as streaming if you´re not recording all you like is the same of having a tuner only , good music all day but if somethin`fails no sound to hear
I feel what your saying, great comment and I could .never imagine NOT buying CD's as I listen to full albums and insist on OWNING the music I love, looking at the liner notes, the artwork, just the feeling of having the actual, physical album in my collection. Got over ten thousand CD's, proud of my collection! Cheers!
@@treff9226 thank u same here cds 💿 better sound quality and u own the music
The first CDs i bought back in 1994 were all 15 volumes of Just Can't Get Enough: New Wave Hits Of the 80s.
I really like CDs from Japan. You get an OBI en often a bonus track. I think i have 1300+ cds
CD's were a superior format, one thing I envied about the younger set not having to deal with Vinyl . . Bought my first player in early '86. CD's never should need cleaning, never touch the surface, handle by edges. One of my first CD's was Glass Houses.
i'm sorry, did you say The Stranger by Billy Joel was his 2nd release? if you did, that's not true, it's his 5th.
GM ☕️🥓💊💊 from Toronto.
A decent transport and DAC and you’re good to go 👍👍
I've been collectin' CDs, since 1989. They were the opposite of vinyl, today. That is, they were the premium-priced option.
They were then, but strangely enough they've more or less stayed the same price since that time, while LPs are now 4x the price
CDs are so gr8
Damn I wish I could rip those CDs with eac
I'm a CD Man,i love this format and still.
I'm restricting to buying my music online. Mostly CDs and very few cassettes. Records are out of the question.
Do any of you collectors have a sense of vacuousness the more you collect? Or is collecting just wholly and completely satisfying? Asking for a psychology course.
Ah, early CDs, from back when dynamic range was a selling point for ditching your vinyls. Yes, I just said vinyls. 🤣 Most modern day players are just using DVD transports, which is funny that they should skip because read ahead tech is not even special today. I have worked on players that you could lift the CD off the player, put it back and it would spin it up and never miss a beat.
Records, dammit! LOL If they are putting DVD transports in these machines, they are the cheapest they can find. A good DVD transport has to be more rugged than what you use for CD alone but I think they're all pretty chintzy these days. I'm still lookin, though. :)
@@EzeeLinux As a side note, if you have a DVD player that won't play movies anymore sometimes they will still play CDs. You would be aMAZED at how many people don't even know you can play a CD in a DVD player.
Hello there! Can you play any CD in a DVD player? Does it have to be a specially recorded CD? Thanks.
@@treff9226 As far as I know, any CD, CDR, CDRW,etc. You can even put a DTS 5.1 music file on a CDR, run any type digital path to your surround receiver and it will play in 5.1. It doesn't matter if it's a CD or DVD player as long as it's using the digital output.
I have at least one 2 disk set that doesn't exist on the internet.
I noticed that the 2004 CD's are becoming unglued.
What ? What do you mean ?
I love records and CD;s...even tapes, but CD is the best format. Especially for buying second hand, Records are just sexier and tapes more nostalgic for me, because that was the format I was buying when I first stared buying my own music. I used to by vinyl if they never had an album on tape 😂. When I moved to CD's I used to buy tapes if they never had the album on CD 😂 Them later tapes are surprisingly valuable now. Don't sound great though...just nostalgic to me.
Looks like my old gaming Library, Have software, games and music from back in the early 90's. Yep need to do a bit of cleaning myself. Have some Vinyls to from back in the 50's to even a Elvis. Going to give some of it away as my kids won't know what to do with most of it, they don't game. some of it stored away in a bedroom.
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??? 90125 target cds do not go for that much money.
There's no apostrophe in "CDs."
Tell just about every spell checker that... :)
Microcloth and demineralized water is good to clean Vinyl records!Tnx for the nice video mr Collins!
Good CD players are not available now a days, that is the biggest issue
eBay is your friend, then. You can buy nice refrubed units for not much money and if it breaks just buy another. I was going to say that in the vid but got side tracked.
Marantz, Pro-Ject and Rotel make nice players. Some Pro-Ject models at least use the Blue Tiger transport made by a company in Austria.
Primare CD15 Prisma has blown me away. It’s incredible, imo.
Lots of good players now. Not to be seen at common dept. or big box stores. At mid to high-end prices, and from compact to full component size.
The ' chips' - DAC etc., in new players, are not not the same as of the 90s. Either a big plus or a minus for those really into it. Used, serviced gear is out there, if the old sound is your path.
Just get a cheap external optical drive for your laptop and invest in a Marshall speaker to connect via Bluetooth.
cd is far superior to vinyl records on al fronts... Yeah vinyl is more tactile and the artwork comes out better but besides that, vinyl is nowhere...
streamer NOW ,NOT 20 euros per each CD
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i think all have their preferencies i might prefer records but have a litle more than 5.000cds not all sound bad, what i know is that all cds released till late 90´s when analog intruemnts are in use more often happened with electric instruments sound very poor ,they have a weak sound, when buying more cds i didn´t knew this and i was sick of buying cds ,thinking they would sound good ,but when playing them they missed most of the original sound kind of stéril and dynamic less sound, ATCO were very cheap cds edited by that company they used to cost around what today is 7€ ,others what today is 35€ only after 1990 cds started to be released made of a cheaper material at the time cds price decreased to a aceptable price, even stranger is the better amplifier speakers and cd player you have the worst they sound as so poor they were recorded
They up too much physical space. I just chucked 4 bin bags full of DVDs into the loft because I can't even give them away.
Don't you have charity shops where you live? I am sure they take them
@@PedroMiguel-if3ll Thought old peoples home. Its finding a place where you trust the staff.
LP records DO NOT sound better nor are in any way "better" than a properly mastered CD. I say properly mastered because vinyl pundits will point out comparisons with poorly mastered CDs with loudness cranked up vs. the same album on a vinyl which have to be carefully mastered due to the physical limitations of the format.
The Compact Disc was purposely engineered with the vinyl as the reference to beat and the goal was met and exceeded even with the poor Sigma-Delta A/D encoders and mediocre DACs of the early 80's. Any one who's spend a lifetime playing musical instruments, lived inside recording studios and live venues will tell you which format registers and captures better the natural source of the music (instrument/vocals).
So now, after years of evolution and development, suddenly LP vinyls are "better" because of course the hipsters and social media made this trend viral. Well, enjoy your pops-clicks, wear, wow & flutter, speed inaccuracies, static/hum, limited dynamic range, narrow frequency response, S/N ratio, and SPL roll off at the end of the audible human spectrum, especially when buying worn-out records stored in attics and storage units that flooded the market because they are now valuable collectables.
Records sound great. Unless you stick strictly new fresh pressings with a decent turntable-phono-preamp combo, you are fooling yourself or being fooled. Old worn records will damage your stylus and sound bad even with a good system (because everyone has a $50K vinyl rig with a high-end turntable+arm-stylus+phono-preamp kit instead of the run-of-the-mill 'potato' record player w/Bluetooth/USB interface commonly sold on Amazon, right?).
Oh, and don't forget a good dynamically transparent amp plus a pair of revealing effortless speakers to round up the audio chain with quality interconnects (not the esoteric audiofool BS). And careful room treatment, an often overlooked but extremely important part that affects the listening experience. Audio is a very subjective hobby, unfortunately, but in its fundamentals it's still a science (because physics). As Julian Hirsch used to say "If it sounds good to you, then it's good for you". Enjoy the music first.
Don't let the numbers fool your, my friend. There are bad sounding CD"s and great sounding records and vice versa galore. That debate can rage on forever... That said, records can do things CD's only dream of. Yes, you have to invest in good gear but it doesn't have to be extravagant and clean records are a must but there is an extra layer of depth and meaning I simply don't hear from any digital source. I have worked in radio and recording for my entire adult life and actually know what a master tape sounds like. I also know how much is lost when that tape is transferred to digital. For convenience, it's acceptable but unless you have heard the difference it's hard to explain. All I can say is you do you.... Don't wanna play records? Don;t! But... don't pee on others parades about it. :)
Stop it. No no no. Cds are terrible and you shouldn't collect them. Stick to overrated vinyl. So nostalgic so awesome,buy them instead. Or buy cassettes. They're certainly not disposable garbage that should be in a landfill. You all should buy them instead. Please leave cds alone,preferably for me to pick up cheaply. Operative word being cheaply. Rising popularity means rising cost. For me in particular. Discogs sellers already have gotten on the ridiculously expensive cd train. Lets derail that train. Buy cds if you want but hush up about it. Your blowing it for cheapskates like me. Lol. Cheers anyway.
Stop to talk about CDs, don't be that hipster! Don't ruin our hobby raising the prices!
Not only are your Linux videos inaccurate, but so are your audio videos. Do some research prior to posting things you claim to be fact whether Linux are audio. I've been doing this a tad longer thenyou, so I know what I'm talking about. You present material well, it's just not accurate.
Oh, no, thanks. They prevented me from enjoying vinyl records throughout the 90s and as a digital medium they are obsolete. No CDs for me anymore.
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@@RobertQuant good for you. But they leave me cold. (And they sound more flat, tiny and metallic to me. And there is nothing to look at when they spin).