I thought a speaker of this significance deserved its own thread. This video is offered here before being shown on AVShowrooms. Enjoy
Lloyd-Do you just keep a mental checklist in your mind of "what's best?" You make very slow and deliberate decisions on what gear you buy and you tend to keep it for a long time which is obviously smart from an economic perspective. However, you seem to have a keen interest in what is going on in the audio world and want to know what all of the pretenders and contenders are up to and how they rate against each other even if you have no real interest/intent in purchasing any of them. Long live Zandan and RBCD.
And finally, yes...long live RBCD (and Amazon...at 3 bucks a CD, the CD collection has grown far more than my system!)...
Unfortunately, RBCD is a dying technology. To my knowledge, there is no place on line that you can download CDs. There are plenty of places to download MP3s and thankfully places to download hi-rez files, but there are no places that I'm aware of to download RBCDs. Every day, the number of brick and mortar stores that carry CDs dwindle. The retail heyday of CDs has long since come and gone. If you are wedded exclusively to RBCDs, you better buy them while you can or enjoy the collection that you have.
By the way, there were 193 MILLION CD sold in 2012. Dead? Really? Declining, yes. But FAR, far from dead.
Andre-If I'm wrong, I'm wrong. Please tell me one single online store that has a wide selection of CDs available for download at 16/44.1 that crosses multiple genres and the selection choices are deep like you would have expected at a brick and mortar store ten years ago.
You realize if these are world-wide sales that is far less than one CD sold per American-never mind the rest of the world.
By the way, there were 193 MILLION CD sold in 2012. Dead? Really? Declining, yes. But FAR, far from dead.
None will compete with a classic Tower Records brick and mortar. We all know that.
Artists are now selling FLAC, ALAC, and WAV downloads of their music on their OWN sites. MAJOR artists too. Like U2,
the Jimi Hendrix estate, Grateful Dead, etc.
I just took issue with your uniformed blanket statement.
50% of the music I buy, and I buy a lot, are FLAC 44.1 downloads.
However for LOSSLESS music sales, physical CDs are by FAR, not even CLOSE, the number one delivery medium.
You want to some cold numbers? Vinyl is ONE PERCENT of that. "HD" downloads (higher than 44.1/16) is a TINY slither of that.
That number has to be way off. Music sales on physical media for 2012 was around 10Bn. That is far more discs than 193 mln.
You just made my point Andre. Physical CDs are "by far, not even CLOSE, the number one delivery medium." And my point is and was that physical CDs are getting harder and harder to obtain compared to a few years ago. Physical CDs are a dying medium whether you want to admit it or not.
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