During a recent apartment move, I became aware of how much stuff I had that was redundant. It was with great pleasure that I was able to dump a lot of it rather than paying guys to move it all across town — again. Books and CDs were the principal weighty items I got rid of, along with a svelte cherry laminate IKEA CD rack that my girlfriend told me made my pad look old-fashioned. Horrified, I threw it out too. Here’s how you too can get rid of your CDs and thus avoid scorn.
I don't think people realize how much data information they loose from a downloaded musical track vs a CD. The CD contains far more data then a downloaded album of the same. So it stands to reason the CD contains more music. Its really quite sad how people have actually taken a medium such as digital and reduced the quality of the music. Not to a point many people will notice because many use inferior reproduction of that sound. So it would be hard for them to tell if it is good or bad. Even Steve Jobs commented that he preferred vinyl albums to digital because of the smoother response.
One thing is for certain the CD introduced us to more accurate music storage over vinyl and magnetic tape. But now we seem accepting of reducing that digital quality for the sake of space?
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Living Without Audio CDs
Posted by: Patrick Nelson September 13, 2012 05:00 AMDuring a recent apartment move, I became aware of how much stuff I had that was redundant. It was with great pleasure that I was able to dump a lot of it rather than paying guys to move it all across town — again. Books and CDs were the principal weighty items I got rid of, along with a svelte cherry laminate IKEA CD rack that my girlfriend told me made my pad look old-fashioned. Horrified, I threw it out too. Here’s how you too can get rid of your CDs and thus avoid scorn.
One thing is for certain the CD introduced us to more accurate music storage over vinyl and magnetic tape. But now we seem accepting of reducing that digital quality for the sake of space?