Elson Trinidad (elson@westworld.com)
Sun, 09 May 1999 10:38:23 -0700
At 12:09 PM 5/9/99 -0400, Simon Booth wrote:
It takes time, but CD's will be completely destroyed
>after 7-8 years. I have Vinyl older than me, and the stuff still plays
>perfectly.
Maybe 78 years, because all my CDs bought back in 1988 sound just as good
as when I first got them. CDs have been commercially available for ony 20
years (so you can't add "I have vinyl older than me" as part of the
argument), but no one's said anything about not being able to play their
old '80s CDs anymore (my old '80s cassettes are another story). And the
whole deal about CD paint being a deteriorating factor has so far proved to
be urban legend.
As a person who makes music from the ground up and participates in the
mastering process - where the goal is to just have the best signal-to-noise
ratio possible, I prefer, I personally don't like to have music hindered by
things like extraneous tape hiss and vinyl pops and crackles (although it
is a neat effect to have - by choice). If these audiophiles contend that
vinyl is superior, then why are they real anal about keeping their records
clean? So obviously cracks and pops isn't a good thing. I want it to sound
as close to the studio as possible, so I personally vouch for the sound of
CDs.
Oh yeah, you can't play vinyl records in your car, on the bus, on an
airplane or in your computer...
But no one can argue that vinyl is more fun to manipulate and play around
with (not that I plan to be a DJ, of course :)). And, I also will admit,
opening a storebought, shrinkwrapped vinyl record album is a less laborious
task than opening a new CD (damn those labels for putting that sticker
across the top!)
Don't worry folks, there's already a CD vs MD/MP3 debate going on somewhere :)
Besides, we all agree that cassettes suck, right?
Elson
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