Who said vinyl is perfect? The quality of digital is totally independent of the quality of CD. Vinyl could suck and that would not make CD any better. Madison Avenue has us stuck on Buying Bran A because it's better than brand x.
Do you agree?
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Who said vinyl is perfect? The quality of digital is totally independent of the quality of CD. Vinyl could suck and that would not make CD any better. Madison Avenue has us stuck on Buying Bran A because it's better than brand x.
I put it in quotes
I think we can all agree that no media is perfect.
True and that cut's both ways. I don't have a problem with well mastered CD's or digital in general. I can find horrible recordings or blown mastering in both. The premise that bad CD's is pushing voicing I find quite odd. Lets face it speakers are where voicing really becomes obvious. They are all over the map and very much about what the designer feels is "correct". I don't see any speakers marketed as " voiced to make CD's tolerable"
I agree CD's were more or less forced upon us.
Rob
I think we can all agree that no media is perfect.True and that cut's both ways. I don't have a problem with well mastered CD's or digital in general. I can find horrible recordings or blown mastering in both. The premise that bad CD's is pushing voicing I find quite odd. Lets face it speakers are where voicing really becomes obvious. They are all over the map and very much about what the designer feels is "correct". I don't see any speakers marketed as " voiced to make CD's tolerable"
I agree CD's were more or less forced upon us.
Rob
Greg,
After a little searching the first CD player was the Sony CDP-101 released in 1982:
http://www.cedmagic.com/history/sony-cdp-101.html
Philips released the first top loading CD player, the CD 100 player in 1983, at the US and European launch of the CD format:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compact_Disc_player
The development and the cost of the CD as I recall was so much that Sony and Philips teamed up to do this with Sony developing the disc and Philips the hardware/player.
Rich
