CD"s. I’m old enough to have had a vinyl collection before CDs came out. The first CD I bought was Brothers in Arms, the sound was revelatory, ditched my dozen or so LPs
If I had no other option to get music, I’d take the CDs to rip them.
If I was doing it as a way to acquire music to listen to, CDs, it’s easier and more convenient to rip them to a computer, they take up less storage space, and are more tolerant of a bit of neglect.
If I’m just looking to collect something for the sake of collecting something, probably vinyl.
Vinyl is trash coming back to sell to collectors.
If you want to put covers up in a room or something go for it. But for listening to music they are the dumbest shit imaginable.
Preach. I am so fed up with vinyl. I hope more artist will continue releasing their music on CD instead.
Por que no los dos?
Some people like collecting vinyl records, others like collecting music on CDs.
To each their own, live and let live.All things being equal sure, but vinyl is a severely outdated audio format that is both a lot more environmentally taxing as well as being a poor medium for music. Both in production and for shipping around the world.
I’ll take CDs over vinyl any day.
Vinyl doesn’t appeal to me personally compared to CDs, and it’s generally less technically capable, but…I mean, people like what they like. As long as they aren’t being misled as to the characteristics of what they’re buying…shrugs
Some of it is opinion. It’s like saying “which is better, chocolate or vanilla”?
If what you want is big album art, a neat mechanical gizmo to watch, and a playing experience that triggers nostalgia, then, hey, who am I to say “no, longevity, compactness, and audio fidelity are more important characteristics”?
I mean, some people like live audio. Some people like retro boom boxes.
End of the day, what you’re doing is picking the thing that makes you personally happy.
Hard no. Hauling this shit around and finding a spots for it is not something I would’ve chosen if I didn’t already have the nostalgic attachment.
That being said! Can’t lie I do still love it.
If I ever need to move…I might just donate most of my things. I love things and I have too much.
Neither. CDs are only useful as a digital copy and 700MB is a quick download, and many discs can fit as FLAC on a microSD the size of my pinky nail. It might even be cheaper nowadays for them to mass produce 512 MB micro SD cards to put FLAC albums on them. If anybody wanted physical albums. It would be hilarious to just have a QR code on a tiny cardboard envelope.
If we want analog music, which is a cool idea, we should replace vinyl with something better. We can still use an optical laser disc but encoding stereo audio tracks as analog laser etches rather than zeros and ones. That way we could reduce the cost, and increase the quality at the same time. Might even be able to print them on glass for longevity. Then you might have an audiophile quality LP that doesn’t need to be flipped. Also in terms of longevity - an analog laser recording could be reverse engineered and listened to after the apocalypse, while binary CD format is a bit more opaque.
I find people with huge music collections in fact have no taste in music.
If I was starting today probably CDs because the price difference is significant. Ive collected vinyl since the 80s though and acquired the bulk of my collection when former vinyl enthusiasts foolishly unloaded their collections for pennies on the dollar to get cds instead. I dont buy many new LPs nowadays and stick to thrift stores and discogs bargain deals.
I collect both but have begun focusing more on CDs for their portability, price, and their ease of digitization. I’m actually in the middle of extracting CDs I recently picked up at the thrift store as I type this. I have an MP3 player and I load them on there, keep them on my hard-drive AND a separate back up. I still have CDs from the 90s and have had no issues with them playing or being digitized.
My wife is totally into vinyl but I keep telling her, the best it will ever sound is the first time you play it and it degrades just a little bit every time the needle hits it.
CDs are consistent. The same data every play, and it’s easier to rip them to digital.
I knew guys who were so weird about their LPs, that they wouldn’t play something because they didn’t want to wear it out, which is stupid.
I also had customers (I worked at n record stores back in the day) that would play certain records EVERY day, and would buy a new copy once a year. Dark Side of the Moon, Rumors, Led Zeppelin 4, and Lynyrd Skynyrd were common ones.
People back in the days would copy their vinyls on cassettes in order to not wear them out to quickly.
Then the cassettes would wear out, but cheaper to replace…
I personally dislike vinyl for how damaging they are for the environment during production, but from the testing I’ve seen, they don’t really degrade in any meaningful way just from playing them.
CDs for sure but then again I never stopped collecting them. They can be played as is with no loss of audio quality. They are easy to store, and serves as a backup after you have ripped them to a harddrive. So should your hardware fail you can always start over.
There is also a lot of music I might have forgotten about if I only had streamed it, but finding it on my shelf years later gives the music new life again.
I think I’d go for CDs, I could get a blu ray reader to also collect movies
If you get a reader, I’d suggest Blu-Ray 4k/UHD rather than standard Blu-Ray. You can still read standard Blu-Ray. My guess is that Blu-Ray UHD will be the final significant physical video format.
If you want the highest quality, lowest cost, and most convenient listening experience (especially portable) then get CDs. If you enjoy the ritual of using the turntable and you also want something that looks good on the wall, get vinyl.
Or do like me and get some of both!
Local marketplace had a really nice turntable for an unreasonable price for a bit and I argued with myself for a while about it. (The same person had sold me a nice set of speakers, just upgrades a lot it seems).
Final product, vinyl wears out, the needle wears out, and it’s finicky. It needs to be level and vibration isolated. The voltage produced is so low it’s highly subject to electrical interference. You need a preamp, which vary widely in quality as well as style - it may be high end but is it to your taste? It’s all a rabbit hole I wasn’t willing to go down for what, ultimately, is a lower quality experience than a CD. You have to dust records and have a microgram scale to balance the tonearm. If it’s not an automatic player it’ll wear a groove at the end of playback if you don’t get up to deal with it. If the power supply is slightly off kilter, it plays too fast or slow, or you need to adjust it.
Now, CDs don’t last forever (as audio storage) and have their faults and loudness war outcome, but they do store high fidelity and provide a mindful listening experience in that you need to get up and open a box and place the CD in the player; they have album art; and they have liner notes sometimes.
So I ended up convincing myself to save the money and frustration.
No, Physical media is out, at least as means of distribution.
Archiving however is a different story. I burn all my collections to archival grade blurays. As a history nerd, I’m painfully aware how much was lost, and I’m doing my part to give future historians something to work with.
No, I could never I would NEVER. I just see physical media like CDs as a waste of money/space and generally an inefficient way to consume/store media. I would/do horde books though I love books and I luv me bookshelf.
Don’t hoard books, use a library
Don’t horde, but do hang on to books that you will pick up and read on a whim, but wouldn’t if you had to go and check it out, or those that are unlikely to be stocked at your local llibrary. A small collection is good.
