Records to spell doom for the CD?

[diuretic]

I reckon the money you'd have to pay for a top line vinyl player to get very high fidelity would be far too much to make the compact disc irrelevant.

Anyway, who cares, as long as you can play it loud!

[PostmodernProphet]

not a likely event....I was downloading some Jethro Tull on bittorrent and mentioned to my daughter I had gotten an entire album downloaded in twenty minutes....she said "what's an album?".....over 50% of the population has never touched vinyl.....

[Guernicaa]

not a likely event....I was downloading some Jethro Tull on bittorrent and mentioned to my daughter I had gotten an entire album downloaded in twenty minutes....she said "what's an album?".....over 50% of the population has never touched vinyl.....

Thats sort of weird, I don't believe the word "album" has disappeared from modern vocabulary at all. Everyone uses the word "album", they just mean "the entire CD".
Maybe you imagined this incident?

[jackass]

Thats sort of weird, I don't believe the word "album" has disappeared from modern vocabulary at all. Everyone uses the word "album", they just mean "the entire CD".
Maybe you imagined this incident?

I never hear of it refered to as an album anymore. Most people call it a cd. I dont know why you would thin khe imagined the incident.

[KarlMarx]

I reckon the money you'd have to pay for a top line vinyl player to get very high fidelity would be far too much to make the compact disc irrelevant.

Anyway, who cares, as long as you can play it loud!

I agree, I can see vinyl for the audio connesseurs. I think what will kill the CD is down loadable music and movies. Thumb drives are already sporting 8 Giga bytes and coming down in price rapidly.

P.S. if you use the rule of thumb "a minute of play per megabyte", that means an 8 Gbyte thumb drive can hold roughly 8,000 minutes (about 133 hours) of music. Consider that a week is 168 hours long...

P.P.S. Think of it, I could put my entire record collection that I had as a kid on a single 2 GByte thumbdrive and take it to work with me and listen to "records" all day long while I work at my computer.

P.P.S. I agree some music was meant to be played loud (Black Sabbath, Hendrix and Ozzy) and some, not so loud (Bach's Goldberg Variations)

[Monkeybone]

ah...indie kids. that explains alot of it. they are retro into stuff, so yah among them the vinyl sales would be high and of course DJs ( Mr.lets preserve this history by scratching it).

but it won't replace the CD. i think MP3 players (ipod and the such) have a better chance of replacing the CD with all of the new CD players in cars that can do MP3 or you can plug in your Ipod/ipod equivy.