How many of you still use CDs?

smeaney said:
Before when I had basic PC speakers and cheaper headphones I did not notice.
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Nail > head

The vast majority of listeners tend to use their iPhone/Smartphone with the generic earphones that come with it and 128 MP3s are fine.
Most people in their homes have poor standard equipment and those who have gone digital plug their phone into a £50 bluetooth speaker.
I personally don't know anybody who is in the world of DACs, DAPs and high quality earphones/headphones/speakers etc.
 
I personally buy most of my music on CD simply so I can rip to ALAC for decent quality playback. For everything else I have Spotify :)

99% of my CDs come to me second hand as the price difference is pretty significant and usually far cheaper than any other source of music.
 
Still prefer to buy on CD rather than download. Being particularly interested in obscure neo-prog rock there's European or South American bands whose content never sees the light of day on MP3/download vendors, at least not the legitimate ones.
 
will buy/import CDs whenever possible to rip to WAV, otherwise will try my best to find music in FLAC for when purchasing digital content
 
I seem to be bucking the trend, as I buy more CDs than I did 15 years ago when hardly any 'normal' people knew what MP3s and the like were.

CDs have got a lot cheaper, it used to be around £10-15 for an album 20 years ago but now you can pick up most things for £5-10 and that's not even accounting for inflation.

Digital music is clearly easier to manage (hundreds of albums all easily accessible with search etc) but I'm a bit of a luddite I suppose worried about competing formats/vendors/DRM etc (I think I was scared off by itunes 10 years ago, my wife had an ipod and when she changed laptops it seemed like far more of a faff than it should have been to migrate across compared to just having raw mp3s manually moved about - no doubt things are more user friendly now).
 
If I want to own it, I get it in the best quality possible. If high-res isn't available, its CD quality and then its the choice of download/physical to which is cheaper.

Last music I bought was a CD, but it was also a signed copy. :D
 
Haven't bought a CD in 5 years. Spotify has taken a massive obsession of mine and turned it on its head. Loads of discs up in the loft sitting unused. I'm very reluctant to music magpie them all as I've got a bunch of signed albums. Since I bought a standalone DAC even the radio from my TiVo box sounds near as damn as good as my CD player, so with Spotify and a glass of wine I've got pretty much all I'll ever require... and that's not even starting on Spotify connect on our new AV setup for the extension!

I think I might be done forever with CDs sadly - perhaps if I find a really good second hand shop I could rekindle the love.
 
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