How many of you still use CDs?

OspreyO · 19 Mar 2016 at 15:46

Use them in both cars. CD players around the house.

Pick them up cheap in sales. Lossless, whats not to like.

OspreyO · 19 Mar 2016 at 15:56

SexyGreyFox said:
After ripping my CD's to MP3 320 I have now learnt the error of my ways and have just started ripping them to Flac.
Anybody who thinks MP3 320 are as good as Flac need a lobotomy.

Think?

Your ears may not be good enough to hear it, or your gear not good enough to play it back with enough fidelity.

SexyGreyFox · 19 Mar 2016 at 15:58

OspreyO said:
Think?

Your ears may not be good enough to hear it, or your gear not good enough to play it back with enough fidelity.

I now have a DAC and triple driver ear phones, yes I can tell the difference and it's huge.
I didn't with my old way of listening.

OspreyO · 19 Mar 2016 at 16:02

You always had a DAC. Almost everything has a DAC.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital-to-analog_converter

That said some are better than others. If you have the ears and the source material.

TheVoice · 19 Mar 2016 at 16:34

SexyGreyFox said:
It's the difference between the Mona Lisa and a postcard of it (to us oldies).

Oh right, I didn't realise art had to be a certain size.

fatiain · 19 Mar 2016 at 17:01

Back on topic, I've got about 200 CD's in a cupboard in my house. They've been sat there for about 10 years.

And there's about 20 in the centre console of my car but the CD player doesn't work...

simpletom · 19 Mar 2016 at 17:02

Yup, nice to chill with in the music room. Spotify is okay, but prefer the CD quality and having the box.

In the car, Bluetooth to iPod. Car stereos are pretty naff compared to hi-fi, so it doesn't matter.

DannyW · 19 Mar 2016 at 21:40

OspreyO said:
Think?

Your ears may not be good enough to hear it, or your gear not good enough to play it back with enough fidelity.

I can tell the difference with my mid range technics amp and mid range sennhieser hd650's , and so can the girlfriend. Without been sexist women ain't the best at noticing little differences like this, so for one to, it must be somewhat of a difference. Ok that is totally sexist

MouthBoy · 20 Mar 2016 at 12:20

I have to be honest, up until my Mrs bought me my HD650s I was listening to MP3s just fine. I then started to notice problems with music and I thought it was the headphones. I tried FLAC and the problems went away. I invested in some mid range speakers and amp to improve room listening after.

I bought the lord of the rings score the other day and the difference with CD/FLAC to MP3 320 is massive. Even my wife came in and commented. I guess sometimes it does depend on the music, and even with all this said there are some songs that I could not tell on, but that's just me being honest.

OspreyO · 20 Mar 2016 at 12:34

TheVoice said:
Oh right, I didn't realise art had to be a certain size.

It doesn't. But some of us prefer HD rather than in 160x160.

OspreyO · 20 Mar 2016 at 12:39

DannyW said:
I can tell the difference with my mid range technics amp and mid range sennhieser hd650's , and so can the girlfriend. Without been sexist women ain't the best at noticing little differences like this, so for one to, it must be somewhat of a difference. Ok that is totally sexist

When I say your ears. I meant peoples (in general) ears. For myself I struggle to hear a difference over 320 unless I'm using really good source material and gear. Most of the time I'll be listening to a poor source material and using lower end gear that stuffed into my pocket, in a relatively noisy environment. My ears aren't getting better with age either.

Schizo · 20 Mar 2016 at 13:14

Got rid of my cd's,dvd's ect 3 to 4 years ago,i don't own one physical media item now.

TheVoice · 20 Mar 2016 at 13:39

OspreyO said:
It doesn't. But some of us prefer HD rather than in 160x160.

It's not really a choice if they're only on CD. Not that I'd be buying any vinyl anyway.

OspreyO · 20 Mar 2016 at 14:01

The artwork on vinyl and to a lesser degree CDs were an art form in themselves. Many were paintings etc.

OspreyO · 20 Mar 2016 at 14:08

My favourite format was MD, and HiMD. Just loved the gadgetness of them.

But there are considerable advantages to streaming music. If you have the infrastructure and resources to do so. I like that too.

drex69 · 20 Mar 2016 at 16:09

marc2003 said:
It's still the cheapest to way to get a lossless copy so yes, I still buy CDs. Obviously it's ripped to FLAC immediately and never touched again.

Same as this, I occasionally play them in my car, but as soon as I get a CD, it gets ripped to FLAC for my Sonos system.

SexyGreyFox · 20 Mar 2016 at 17:56

OspreyO said:
My favourite format was MD, and HiMD. Just loved the gadgetness of them.

This cost me £500 but changed my life -

Up until that came out I was gigging in a duo and I recorded the backing tracks and put one on it's own cassette tape. My partner then used a double cassette deck and had to keep switching tapes during the performance.
I then bought two of these, in fact one is in a cupboard right next to my left foot -

Deleted member 77746 · 20 Mar 2016 at 18:13

I haven't used CD's since 1997.

Spook187 · 20 Mar 2016 at 21:03

Carted hundreds of cd's about whilst DJing, before that was a box of vinyl, now i just use Pioneers Rekordbox with a USB stick to put in the CDJ's 2000's

Kanpai · 20 Mar 2016 at 21:10

Very rarely do I buy physical CD's, if I do it's to keep as a memorabilia/collectors item.

Streaming is so much easier and hassle free for me now.