Not to mention AMAZON is the fucking WORST for MP3's since they use the same setting for EVERYTHING and force a lowpass value of 19.5Khz, meaning MP3's from Amazon aint even proper 44.1Khz, they're 39Khz in a 44.1Khz band. At least iTunes, Spotify, etc, don't impose a lowpass so you get the genuine full 44.1Khz.The compression on even the best MP3's gives them a sound only slightly above a stereo cassette. Play a CD through a good system (Boss headphones or a good stereo system), then do the same with an MP3, then a cassette. I too bought and made many MP3s in the 2000's and I didn't go back to CD for nostalgia. However, with digital...I do use WAV or FLAC. FLAC is the top. Right side is WAV pulled from a CD -- left is the compression of any given MP3.
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MetalAlien
Banned
I was a slow adopter because music is such a low priority to me. I didn't get my first CD player until like 95 or something. I was born in 71. BUT I love movies... I was buying DVDs day one....
How about this...First CD player I had was I think in 1991. It looked something like this.
I think the first CD I bought was New Order.
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Thing on a Spring
Member
C deez nutz.
Sorry, I've been watching Game Chasers and they've started to rub off on me.
Sorry, I've been watching Game Chasers and they've started to rub off on me.
DetectiveBananas
Member
CDs are great and all but nothing beats listening to For Whom The Bell Tolls on my Teddy Ruxpin...
Happosai
Hold onto your panties
I did that in the early 2000's, too. That's only because my first car only had a cassette player. I have to have music always and if CD isn't available...I settle with the interior alternatives.
StreetsofBeige
Gold Member
EverydayBeast
ChatGPT 0.1
How great were CDs would love to play some on a proper stereo system
StreetsofBeige
Gold Member
I've never been a big sound guy. As long as it sounds good I don't think I can or tell the difference.
Boy was I wrong.
Never mind CDs, when I got my new car (no CD player) and played my MP3 downloads, I couldn't believe how much better it sounded when you got like 8 speakers or whatever. I could hear so many more instruments, left, right etc..... when my old car it was all mashed together. I listen to music only in my car and my laptop. I haven't had a dedicated stereo in 20 years aside from this 10 year old portable speaker thing I can hook up an MP3 player or tablet. And my old stereo (in my parents basement) was just two speakers.
My new car's sound system is by far the best out of them all. lol
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Happosai
Hold onto your panties
Yes, and I think it would have helped if it had also been handled by better engineers. Pioneer wanted to monopoly LD and that made Sony back-off from the disc-video market in the 80's. Sony's BetaMax and VHS 4-head VCRs sold better. Every time I see a double-sided DVD I think of Laser Disc. The only difference is the encoding on the b-side of a DVD wasn't a continuation.
Starlight Lotice
Member
The majority of my albums are CD based and I like it that way.
I have some Vinyl but those are more fragile and expensive.
I hope that they still do CD albums for years to come!!!
I have some Vinyl but those are more fragile and expensive.
I hope that they still do CD albums for years to come!!!
Happosai
Hold onto your panties
it would appear they will. I agree, it would be nice to buy records...but they're bloody expensive.
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hariseldon
Unconfirmed Member
jshackles
Gentlemen, we can rebuild it. We have the capability to make the world's first enhanced store. Steam will be that store. Better than it was before.
Remember when people in the 90s thought the logical progression of disc technology was that they would get smaller?
Kinda mind-blowing. Of course, they were half-way right considering we live in a world where micro-SD cards exist.
Kinda mind-blowing. Of course, they were half-way right considering we live in a world where micro-SD cards exist.
Happosai
Hold onto your panties
In the circular disc form it did happen to a certain degree. Certain answering machines ran on a mini disc, GameCube had mini discs, and even the UMD (for the PSP) was using a form of this technology.Remember when people in the 90s thought the logical progression of disc technology was that they would get smaller?
Kinda mind-blowing. Of course, they were half-way right considering we live in a world where micro-SD cards exist.
It's just funny in a sense that we've circled back round into essentially cartridges again for our storage medium, the rise of flash media and the ever expanding size through the early 200's to now is just crazy, of course content has adjusted for that too, if you said to people just 10 years ago that 2TB in a games console wouldn't be enough they'd just be outright shocked and call you a liar.
