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Strategies & Market Trends : ajtj's Post-Lobotomy Market Charts and Thoughts
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To: Sun Tzu who wrote (95757)10/12/2025 5:00:38 PM
From: ajtj99  Read Replies (1) of 96717
 
I was an audiophile, so 8-tracks and cassettes were not going to cut it for music for me.

When CD's came out, I looked at the McIntosh CD player that used the original Philips drive and software. It ran about $2k. As nice as it sounded, it was not worth the money.

CD's recordings were "brighter" sounding than vinyl. They made the music sound more artificial, especially when played on the players that used the Sony tech, which was slightly different from the Philips tech.

In the end, the convenience of CD's made them ubiquitous. I even caved. With vinyl, I had to use Discwasher to clean each record side before I played it. I had to use a D-Stat gun to get rid of the static, and I also had to clean the turntable stylus. With a single side of music only 20-24 minutes, this could get tedious real fast.

This was even made more difficult in my first house because the entertainment center I had built required the turntable to be slid out of the cabinet to flip or change the album. It was slick, but it was still another step.

With CD's, you could load 5-CD's in a player and not touch anything for over 5-hours. You could shuffle the music or program which tracks to skip. It gave you so much control vs vinyl and tapes.

Of course, streaming music is even worse quality than CD's. The compression sucks the life out of those tracks. 99.99% of people don't notice, so there's no real reason to change. Tidal was one place where you could get quality streaming, but nobody cared.
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