I have my vinyl at home, my CDs in the car, but I listen mostly to the radio in the car. When I look at an ipod or other music player and it says 8GB I think to myself well that's a little less than 12 fully recorded 700MB CDs at their highest quality or roughly 230 songs at about 4 minutes per song. What amazes me is people who manage to put several thousand songs on there and don't think anything of the quality issues that there are, they've let their computers decide for them what in the music is important and lost a lot of the nuances, and the really sad part is they don't know it.

 

The problem I have with my vinyl is that it is a pita to make it sound right and it's a process to listen to it. From storage problems to record cleaning to cartridge and tonearm selection to stand vibration and phono amplification. It's a lot of work and often times rewarding but many times i'd rather just plop a CD in the ol transport and go.

 

Those exact same arguments can be made by someone with their ipod...

Vibration and choice of CD transport and separate D/A stage are just as much in play with CDs. It's just a matter of how fussy you want to be at extracting your sound from the disc.

 

For those that are complaining about compressed music. I had the same argument until I found: Link

"Dark Side of the Moon" in 5.1 is quite impressive.

 

DVD's will go the same way IMO. In fact I was talking to someone in 'the industry' yesterday and the companies are not too jazzed about bluray and are putting efforts into digital and downloadable.

 

CD's are toast. Maybe audiophiles will sustain it but not as if SuperAudio CD's are doing that well. Car acoustics dominate so my iPod files sound just as good as my CD's. Bye-bye CD's.