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This is an interesting article. Thanks for sharing.
I'm not a sound engineer but l read somewhere that CD's have a wider dynamic range than vinyl which would seem to make CD's preferable to vinyl. Could anyone elaborate on that?
As far as dynamic range is concerned, most definitely (as a sidenote: pretty much any recording will not take full advantage of the dynamic range these formats provide anyway). In terms of overall sound quality it's not that easy to judge since it's a bit like comparing apples with oranges - two totally different technologies. Add to that, that these things are often very subjective.
Quality of CD reproduction has its inherent problems, but those can be rectified by high resolution formats - and no question: those will smoke vinyl any day. Tape vs. high-res is of course a different matter.
One thing that can be said, though: this entire vinyl revival is rubbish. The majority of vinyl records produced these days is sourced from digital. Why bother with surface noise if you can have the full sound without any degradation?
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Of course it’s making a comeback. We all been telling the “streamers” for years that physical media will always be the safest bet. Unless you break into our homes and steal our movies and music, this stuff is in our hands forever.
ALAC/FLAC files are even much safer than CDs.
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Of course it’s making a comeback. We all been telling the “streamers” for years that physical media will always be the safest bet. Unless you break into our homes and steal our movies and music, this stuff is in our hands forever.
ALAC/FLAC files are even much safer than CDs.
Especially if your house burns down and all of your music was backed up in your cloud drive.
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A HD crash, which has even happened to me (my hard disc drive literally crashed to the concrete floor and broke) is only a problem if you have no backup. And since I have Terabytes of important, irreplaceable data (including my music, which, while not completely irreplaceable since I have the CDs/downloadshop access, would be an enormous amount of work), I do have of course always current and controlled backups. Files are easy to back up. Would be foolish not to have up to date backups, unless the data is not that important.
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I think that a fire is the only danger for CDs, they're not going to get stolen (no thief is going to break into your house & make straight for the CDs). I just like having physical stuff, I'm from that generation. I do think that LPs are more of a style/fashion statement than anything to do with music.
Yes, I think so too. I don't think burglars would bother to steal CDs... I would expect them to be disappointed to see CDs instead of something more valuable in the shelves.
I got two dogs though, that's already reason enough for potential burglars to go to the next house.
Fire is a possibility, but highly unlikely, unless someone actively tried to burn or house down. It isn't filled to the brim with flammable stuff and it is made out of concrete and glass and steel... not wood. Even my CD shelves are made out of metal. So there isn't that much that would burn.
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A HD crash, which has even happened to me (my hard disc drive literally crashed to the concrete floor and broke) is only a problem if you have no backup. And since I have Terabytes of important, irreplaceable data (including my music, which, while not completely irreplaceable since I have the CDs/downloadshop access, would be an enormous amount of work), I do have of course always current and controlled backups. Files are easy to back up. Would be foolish not to have up to date backups, unless the data is not that important.
Its far to costly for me to pay cloud storage for all my music though I do have backups of my iTunes library on an external drive via Time Machine. At one time every CD I owned was digitized but Ive fallen behind on that.
But everything is in the same location. So yes, if it comes down to a fire I'm screwed. A thief might take my computer but not my CD's.
As far as costs are concerned, CD shelf storage costs way more than the hard drives where I store the music. I don't have any actual music on my computer, it's all on external drives. A cloud solution for all my music would be nice, I am considering it. But I have not found one that I like that's both practical and reasonably priced.
Currently I do it like this: ALL my music is on one hard drive, that's where new music comes in and gets tagged. All new CDs that I get are ripped and tagged and added to the library. The library is duplicated on a NAS drive, from where the music is accessed (from my stereo system, for example). It is also duplicated to another drive that serves just as a backup. So my digital music collection exists on three drives. 4 Terrabytes cost less than $100.- and that's a lot of music... you get probably 2500 - 3000 CDs losslessly (FLAC/ALAC) on one Terrabyte, possibly more (haven't calculated, just a rough estimate), so hard disc storage costs about $0.01 per CD. I don't know any shelf space that's living room presentable in that price range. :-)
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I'm proud of my "wall of soundtracks". CD shelf's aren't that expensive nor do CD shelf's take up a lot of space. Granted I only have about a 1000 CD's excluding classical which had to be move elsewhere.
Yes, I like my soundtrack collection as well, we just moved, so I bought a new shelf for them as well, and I suppose this one will be able to keep all the CDs I will buy in the future as well. CD shelves are not necessarily "expensive", but even the cheapest shelves are a lot more expensive than the same CD space on a hard drive.
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I’ll take my chances. You’re more likely to fall victim to a HD crash than having your house burn down.
Well, my house burned down but the drive was in the basement, below the fire. 1500+ CDs gone or unplayable but most of the library survived.
So sure, the odds may have have said one thing, but having them all saved salvaged the majority of the music. And all of those restored purchases of digital albums made life a lot easier. Thank you digital only albums....
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Fire is a possibility, but highly unlikely, unless someone actively tried to burn or house down. It isn't filled to the brim with flammable stuff and it is made out of concrete and glass and steel... not wood. Even my CD shelves are made out of metal. So there isn't that much that would burn.
Electrical fires are not uncommon. Metal melts. So does plastic. Trust me, you have flammable materials in your home, whether you're aware of it or not. Fire and water are the two most destructive elements. Good luck if you have a fire, because if the flames don't get it, smoke can make the data side unplayable. Even in boxes. Smoke gets everywhere. Then the water from the fire fighters also gets into things. If you can't get to your collection fast enough (luckily you aren't in the house when it goes), then you'll have mold. Which forms in HOURS.
I lived it. Lost 90% of it, a lot to things other than flames. Never thought it would happen to me either. But it did. I sincerely hope it never happens to anyone here.
I now have multiple backups and cloud storage. Be complacent at your own risk.
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