Physical media

[crp]

nice to know that those of us who like it are not such a minority class that pundits would have one believe,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOXnIQpAvSo

 

 

[abarbarian]

If you have a CD or DVD collection would you buy one of these,

 

Shaving Compact Discs to improve the sound (?!)

 

[sunrat]

1 hour ago, abarbarian said:

If you have a CD or DVD collection would you buy one of these,

 

Shaving Compact Discs to improve the sound (?!)

 

 

100% snake oil. Actually more than 100% as there is a greater than zero chance of damaging the discs.

 

As for legacy formats, I have ~150 vinyl albums which I play regularly (well some of them, others I'm not sure what I was thinking to acquire that one ).

I digitised a whole stack of cassettes and binned them. Mainly live gigs I have recorded, never had many commercial cassettes as quality was always substandard.

Also have ~100 CDs which I digitised and stuck in a box in the cupboard. No point playing a CD when a ripped copy on a computer sounds exactly the same.

[abarbarian]

13 minutes ago, sunrat said:

100% snake oil.

 

I knew my post would get a response

 

I have not owned any vinyl since 1976 when I sold all my collection to fund a trip to the good ol USA. Have never ever bought a commercial cassette tape or cd. I had a friend who owned Rhino Records a music shop who would record anything I wanted to tape for me. I had another friend who had an entire wall floor to ceiling full of shelves packed with the most weird and wonderful collection of world music, stuff that was not available in local mainstream music stores, he also recorded tapes for me.He had connections with merchant seamen who brought him lp's from far of places.

[raymac46]

I still have a collection of vinyl that goes back to 1963. Got rid of some earlier stuff that was so scratchy as to be unplayable. I can still listen to it via streaming apps like Amazon Prime music. Never collected anything much on cassette although I made a few recordings for the car. Now all that is history.

Got tons of CDs and DVDs.

I plan to give my vinyl to daughter and SIL if they want it. For some reason they are buying vinyl, so they may as well have my Simon and Garfunkel, The Doors, Hall and Oates, etc. if they are interested.

[goretsky]

Hello,

CDs (and DVDs and Blu-rays) have their information encoded on them digitally. 

I do not think there is too much you can do to them that would change how the information is read from them, aside from perhaps fixing any scratches in the clear layer if they prevent the laser from reading the data below it.

Regards,

Aryeh Goretsky
 

[sunrat]

On 2/25/2025 at 10:33 PM, abarbarian said:

I have not owned any vinyl since 1976 when I sold all my collection to fund a trip to the good ol USA.

 

That's curious. Quite a few of mine I bought from a friend who was selling his to fund a trip to Africa.

[abarbarian]

31 minutes ago, sunrat said:

 

That's curious. Quite a few of mine I bought from a friend who was selling his to fund a trip to Africa.

 

I had the trip of a lifetime. At the time I was a back country bumpkin who knew almost nothing of the wider world. Blew my mind.

[abarbarian]

2 hours ago, goretsky said:

Hello,

CDs (and DVDs and Blu-rays) have their information encoded on them digitally. 

I do not think there is too much you can do to them that would change how the information is read from them, aside from perhaps fixing any scratches in the clear layer if they prevent the laser from reading the data below it.

Regards,

Aryeh Goretsky
 

 

Yup yer right. The product is snake oil. As is the CD demagnetizer that was on sale for $399.

 

 

The guy has a great sense of humour as he tested the item with a group called Ultramagnetic MC's

Edited February 27 by abarbarian

[b2cm]

On 2/26/2025 at 11:25 AM, raymac46 said:

I still have a collection of vinyl that goes back to 1963. Got rid of some earlier stuff that was so scratchy as to be unplayable. I can still listen to it via streaming apps like Amazon Prime music. Never collected anything much on cassette although I made a few recordings for the car. Now all that is history.

Got tons of CDs and DVDs.

I plan to give my vinyl to daughter and SIL if they want it. For some reason they are buying vinyl, so they may as well have my Simon and Garfunkel, The Doors, Hall and Oates, etc. if they are interested.

Now and then my kids buy second hand 33s from somewhere, mostly LPs from late 60s to 70s, to show me and to actually listen to these on their tiny, modern turntables. They enjoy watching me hold an album and say, "Wow, I had this when I was in high school." It warms my heart to know it is one of their ways to fondly connect to me and my generation. 

[raymac46]

My daughter collected a complete set of Taylor Swift reissues on vinyl, before she even had a turntable to play them. Now she listens with a turntable that has Bluetooth earphones. I guess you can hear the rumble and flutter better, not to mention scratches.

When my old Yamaha receiver died a decade ago I replaced it with a cheap Sony that didn't even have a preamp. I had to buy a $25 Pyle preamp to even hear the vinyl - not that I use it much.