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CDRs must be an incredibly hard-hit product.
I used to burn hundreds of CDRs not only for myself, but also for friends and neighbors.
Now I don't know ANYONE who would want a CDR or even have a machine capable of playing one.
I think any regular CD/DVD/Bluray player should be able to play CDRs.
Last time I actually made a CDR for someone was in August 2017, which already then felt strangely outdated.
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I hate vinyl.
Perhaps hate is too strong. Maybe you would just get tired of them if they invited themselves to stay for Christmas
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I never hated LPs, but I had started to dislike them by the late seventies. They just didn't make them very well by then, they seemed to come with built-in crackle & other faults, I used to buy the cassette whenever possible. My first CD player (or was it the second?) was a 5 disc player. I loaded the magazine with five CDs put my headphones on & didn't have to move for 4-5 hours: lovely. If the "kids" are learning to show music the proper respect by playing LPs (with all that that involves), then that's a good thing. As for me, I'm too lazy to actually remove the CD & play it these days, I listen to all my music from my DAP, but I still listen to whole albums, just like I did with LPs a lifetime ago.
I never "hated" LPs, or I wouldn't have accumulated a considerable amount of them over the years. I remember fondly when I started to "seriously" listen to music as a teenager on my first sound system with a Dual Turntable and a Technics receiver and Canton loudspeakers. But I always realized their limitations, and I was glad to switch to CDs.
Let's face it, a turntable has its own beauty, much more to look at and fiddle with compared to a plain old CD player. But for me, it's much more fun now to play an old LPs again because I know I don't have to. I usually have the recording in a better sounding format (CD/lossless/high-res), so when I play an LP, it's for retro reasons. Which is why I have to roll my eyes when someone insists that LPs are a format superior to digital formats for audio reproduction even when that is demonstrably not so, especially considering that practically all pressed LPs are files nowadays before they are pressed to vinyl. Might as well directly play the files.
I think it's perfectly okay though and I fully understand if someone enjoys LPs for what they are and offer: big cover art, the enjoyment of handling and flipping a heavy LP, the additional kick one gets out of a perfectly adjusted mechanical system that reproduces soundwaves from grooves, the look and expectation of the needle softly settling on the groove, the physical sensation of interacting with the music.
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