OT: Vintage CDs for sale; "Minty" (snark)

**bfish** · January 23rd, 2011, 10:08 AM

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I can't decide if I wanna be a crying, die-hard hanger-on, or just say "good riddance"...:coffeedrinker:

**Altec Best** · January 23rd, 2011, 12:18 PM

Originally Posted by bfish

What happens when the CD factory closes? | Media Maverick - CNET News

I can't decide if I wanna be a crying, die-hard hanger-on, or just say "good riddance"...:coffeedrinker:

I'm still crying over the loss of Vinyl LP's

Nothing and I mean nothing sounds as good as a brand new vinyl LP. But this is the problem.Flac Free lossless Audio Codec,and I mean Free !!!

If it ain't Flac- Then it's whack :2thumbsup: :coffeedrinker: :lollipop:

**gvasale** · January 23rd, 2011, 03:16 PM

I don't have a ton of CDs. But knowing that just a several years ago there was a person I met wanting to start as CD manufacturing plant, and one thing he was stessing was the cost of the product would be less than $0.50. Thats probably true.

Funny this is, when the price fixing scandal broke almost a decade ago, prices still didn't start falling as one might expect, like the cost of memory chips has.

I still hate buying re issues of classical music. I do buy up to date versions when I've got a little extra, but trying to find really good stuff got harder when Tower Records folded. Looking for stuff on line is time consuming, and so much "music" out there is not great.

I don't use mp3 or that stuff. Don't think I ever will. I LIKE CDs.

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**Altec Best** · January 23rd, 2011, 03:54 PM

Originally Posted by gvasale

I don't use mp3 or that stuff. Don't think I ever will. I LIKE CDs.

I was never a big fan of CD's either but they were all you could buy once vinyl stopped being produced. MoFi still produces vinyl so i buy them when they press something I like.

MP3's are a lossy format and 320 KBps being the best quality you can get with MP3.Now Flac files are a lossless format at like 800-1100 KBps so there is quite a difference in sound quality.I only will use MP3's if I can't find it any other way. But being a Vinyl guy I can only listen to MP3's on a very limited basis.They are just not crisp and clean enough quality wise.

**Nipper** · January 23rd, 2011, 05:44 PM

+1 on the CD's

I spent so much time and money trying to find a "good" turntable. I dont even want to think about it now.

Nothing I hated worse than the snaps and pops on vinyl (you know what I mean).

I would buy records and the first thing on the agenda was to record them on my reel to reel to avoid this.

I bought one of the first CD players available and never looked back.

**gvasale** · January 23rd, 2011, 07:38 PM

Dear Mr. A. Best: computers seem to have an uncanny ability to FU. Lord knows I have troubles, but I'm likely going to be on dial-up for a loooong time and I don't see how a new format would help, not to mention that multiple TB hard drives would then be necessary. I seldom use the radio for music, prefer talk programs. But that is my perspective. BTW, no cable tv for me either.