On 3/8/06, Cesare Marilungo <cesare@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Marije Baalman wrote: > > > Hiho, > > > > Adam Sampson wrote: > > > >> Cesare Marilungo <cesare@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > >> > >> > >>> Another reason, and this is why I was sarcastic with your first > >>> post, Maluvia, is that there are still people who believe that a > >>> printed cd sounds better than a cd-r or a flac file downloaded from > >>> the Net. > >>> > >> > >> > >> It won't sound better, but there are other advantages to buying a real > >> CD (even if it's a CDR that the band's produced themselves) -- having > >> a nicely-printed case with liner notes, and having a physical artefact > >> that represents the music you've paid for. > >> > > there is a difference between a CD-R and a CD... not directly the > > sound quality, but how long the data is preserved... CD-R's decay much > > faster than printed CD's, even faster when not stored right. Of > > course, this also depends on the brand of CD-R you get: some are > > better than others. > > So in the end, it may be cheaper to get the real CD instead of a > > burned copy of it... as you have to renew the second one from time to > > time. Of course, if you don't like the music anymore after a few > > years, then there's no problem... > > > > sincerely, > > Marije > > > > > This is true. Even if, in my experience, it happened also with some > printed cds were a wronk ink were used. For instance it happened with > some phillips classical recordings. > > At the price of 10 cheap CDRs from a small label or mainstream 5 CDs > you can buy an hard disk to backup hundreds if not thousands CDs at full > quality. > > But my argument was that people's perception of an artefact that stores > a digitalized information (music in this case) is still tied with the > physical value, when what matter are just the bits. > > Once something has been digitalized it's archived for the eternity, or > better as long as somebody owns a backup. This is also saving old > records and films that would've been lost otherwise. > > c. > -- > www.cesaremarilungo.com > I actually pretty much don't buy cds. If i can get it on vinyl i'll buy it that way otherwise i'll live without or get it digitally. Got a few cd's from gigs were vinyl wasn't an option but usually it's not a big problem. Transport / storage does become an issue though. Small apartment, large record collection, arse when moving etc. 500-600 vinyl takes a lot of room! ;-) Loki
