Good news - CDs are back! (Revivals series)

BREAKING NEWS - CD sales are UP! The people have decided. Will this be the beginning of the end for streaming? Is this the tipping point for vinyl and cassette? Have we reached a new world order? Get the latest in this special report. Check out the Audio Masterclass Music Production and Sound Engineering Course at bit.ly/3W3tpKo
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[@robertwood2490]

100% committed to CDs. Never going back to warped plastic.

[@donjohnstone3707]

Good news to hear that CD's are making a significant comeback. I only hope, as you mentioned, that the mastering of them is done to the highest quality that is now available and the cost of them is fair and reasonable.

[@buteforce]

So many people I know amassed very large OVERPRICED CD collections in the 90s. They also made the yuge mistake of ripping their whole collection to either WMA with DRM or MP3. I knew that storage would rapidly increase in size and decrease in price. I ripped my discs to flac and duplicated the files across multiple larger and cheaper disks. NO loss, no stutter continuous playback.

[@stevejohnson1321]

I remember all the badly-pressed LPs from the 1980s. I question whether the problem got solved, which is one reason I won't try new releases.

[@peraspera999]

hope they will all be mastered well, in the future (dynamics) and NOT all maximized volume ...

[@mangold81]

I like it 😊 Me and my wife also started to buy CDs again. We are also using KZbin Music and Tidal. But it's just nice to have something in your hand, with a hood sound quality. We like it 😊

[@sk22ng]

My own testing demonstrated cd's are far superior to vinyl given A-B comparisons of the same releases on cd's & vinyl. My wife and I have played music released in CD format as well as vinyl simultaneously and listened to both while switching inputs on the preamp between the two. The digital out of my CD player is connected to the digital input of my Rotel 1590 preamp via optical fiberoptic connection, bypassing the inferior DAC of the CD player. My turntable tonearm is using an Audio Technica VM540ML cartridge set to the proper alignment, downforce and anti-skating specifications of my specific turntable. My formerly skeptical wife was in agreement while listening to the comparison. Although we both continue to enjoy the pleasure of listening to the many albums we acquired over the years, our first choice regarding purchasing used media is the gool ol' CD. Although the 44.1 KHZ sampling rate chosen for the CD format uses a lot of data space compared to the MP3 format the result is music reproduced in detail that's beyond what humans are capable of hearing. It's still enjoyable and fun to play and flip albums in our collection.

[@sabbathAndy]

Hahahaha i loved the pop up pics! So funny!

[@martinhall60]

Great channel, very interesting and good information. Well done.

[@DragonboltBlastter]

Read on different websites that CD sales rose again, glad to see this. Started collecting since my teens (am mid twenties now). Streaming will never beat original FLAC from a good mastered CD. I wish someone made a 32bit/384khz audio CD.

[@mauanderuk]

Try SACD not that you call tell the difference.

[@patbarr1351]

Perhaps some of those people you mentioned who didn't know that "CD" meant "Compct Disc" thought they were investing in CDs (Certificates of Deposit). Imagine their surprise when a delivery truck appeared and had them asking "Who's this 'Ed Sheeran?' guy?"

[@ianl.9271]

Some albums disappear from streaming services. It makes sense to purchase a copy of the album on CD format for collection purposes. Streaming services do not guarantee the long term availability of the album.

[@yorkemar]

I bought new chemical brothers and new orb gilmour remix cds. Sound great.

[@deadandburied7626]

There is now a better selection of quality CD players and DACs than before. The latter are due to digital streaming mainly, but benefit all digital musical.

[@Coneman3]

It’s Eric McCartney lol

[@smyrnianlink]

CD is a medium, not a "format". ("format" is what computer people use for files) anything you can "stream" from the internet, your device could read it more effectively (free from the network speed) from a local CD, DVD or BlueRay .. The potential is immense. You can make a 24 bit, 32 bit, 64 bit audio .. Memory capacity is there. The rest is marketing. The truth is that they want us to be nodes of a network. Streaming=Re-downloading each time you use the same data is a stupid thing. Why are we not allowed to take a backup copy?

[@AudioMasterclass]

The joys of language. CD is a medium but Compact Disc Digital Audio only has one format, unless pre-emphasised discs are regarded as distinct. "CD format" is a normally well-understood way of saying, "16-bit, 44.1 kHz digital audio, as used in Compact Disc". That's the way I see it anyway. DM

[@jeffbrooke4892]

Just sounds like hifi folks are spending more money on LPs, CDs and Streaming services. Maybe they all got raises and are putting it into their hobby!

[@DV-ml4fm]

Don't care foe CDs anymore. Been there, done that.

[@KristianWontroba]

The “revile”ville series. 😅

[@ianl.9271]

The A&R put into CD mastering, the duration of the silence between the current track and the next track, the mastering level etc are only retained on CD. These are lost on streaming services even though you select to play through an entire album. Tracks are crossfaded if you turn on that setting, if not, otherwise seamless tracks would have a short gap etc. The experience of listening to a complete album is completely different.

[@AudioMasterclass]

I agree. The gaps are important. DM

[@j7ndominica051]

If it's not possible to rip from so called streaming (that you still download more or less instantly), then I'm not interested. I've not opened Deezer since they fixed the ability to rip from them. While I was exporing it, I saw loud remastered albums, CDs ripped with errors, faded endings of segued tracks, deleted pauses and lossy transcodes uploaded there.

[@squirrelarch]

Wot no minidisc revival? The public are a fickle lot. Is CD now officially nostalgia? More affordable nostalgia than vinyl at least. I have absolutely no idea what is driving increased CD sales other than high vinyl prices.

[@mauanderuk]

Minidisc was a genius design.

[@roberthubbard5696]

You never mention what I am sure you know about, surround sound CDs. They didn't fail, and I am still buying new music on new SACDs. Ok, DVDA dropped dead, but my player is a "universal" and I still get to listen to Fleetwood Mac, Beach Boys, and other nostalgia. I admit that most SACDs are classical, my favorite, and are lovingly produced by smaller labels that care to use the best techniques and equipment to record talented young musicians that play the "three Bs" better than the composers ever imagined. Ok, classical is less than 2% of that 0.002% of CDs but it has refused to go away. I get to hear Mendellssohn's Octet with musicians all around the room as he intended. Good music is not dead, it is just on high quality Compact Discs, not on screaming (🙂).

[@robertwood2490]

A regular SACD buyer, here, as well

[@inaifdz]

imagine a discman with 16-32 bit float 92khz reader 😍🤩

[@j7ndominica051]

Why do you need that in a portable setting? Take an pocket player like FIiO with flash memory and skip the disc. If they did put music on DVDs for "higher resolution" we could benefit from increased longevity of the medium where the data layer is protected.

[@inaifdz]

@@j7ndominica051 estoy diciendo "discman" como el concepto, seria muy feliz con un "bluerayman". porque querria algo así? todas las grabaciones modernas usan bit float. seria increíble que volvieran al mercado Blue Ray y un sistema portátil de 32 bit float.

[@TheGreatTomDix]

😂😂😂

[@EgoShredder]

I C what you D-id there....................... I'll get me coat! 🤪

[@wetcat833]

When will the SACD revival happen? When they stop recording boring crap really really well. Stop wearing out those precious master tapes, making vinyl frisbees and stereo jammer cassettes and preserve them for prosperity on SACD. PLEEEEEZ… There is only so much Jazz, Classical and Deep indie soul searching acoustic mealy mouthing music my stereo can handle. Will my SACD collection forever be Pink Floyd, Dire Straits, Doors and some Bach? (Not that much into Dylan. Bring on the unwashed hippy haters in comments below).

[@drssexy2142]

u idiot, dylan is a god

[@KingKong-mp6gj]

Another plus for CD: No DRM, at least not without major hurdles. One reason SACD uses DSD is you couldn't easily copy it. It's copy protection disguised as a supposedly superior format.