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I have to say that, as I just gave all my CD's away last year, and bought a record player instead 💁🏼
Jokes aside, sure CD's had their run, I mean I bought and listened to them for a long time - but now there's no point having the physical medium that gives me the same sound as a download.
And to be fair from an "experience" standpoint I never liked CD's much anyway - those tiny booklets, everything's plastic, fumbly handling, too easy to scratch..
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Funny really because the CD was designed to overcome a lot of the problems of vinyl, delicate sleeves, easily scratched or contaminated etc.
I do have a lot of both though. It's nice to look through a shelf of CD's and choose something you might have forgotten on a digital device.
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I never really brought into vinyl sounding better/different than CDs, as much as I never really brought into the reverse in the 90s. As @Airhead implies, it's really in the mastering, and if it's shittily mastered, then it's likely to be the same across all formats (eg the KOKOROKO album from last year).
If you're happy with streaming, then obvs that's perfectly fine. If you want to collect, then both CDs and vinyl are fine. The advantages of vinyl in that regard is that it's a larger object to interact with; but then it's also a downside when you're trying to store them.
The bonus of CDs currently is the low price if you're a #buyer, both for equipment the and the media themselves. People have been literally giving the stuff away, although that is starting to change, given the way prices have been going.
Airhead
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Why?
CDs have become what vinyl was in the 90s.