bookslover
Puritan Board Doctor
There are persistent rumors that the music CD is going the way of the dodo bird. I surely hope not.
This would mean listening to music on the tinny speakers of your computer or some mobile handheld device with the super-dinky earphones.
What this would represent is a backwards march for technology, in my opinion. We've had more than 100 years of technological advances in the improvement of recorded sound: flat discs replacing cylinders (1890s), the electronic microphone (1925), magnetic recording tape (1948), stereo (1958), digital recording (1981).
Getting rid of the CD and storing and listening to music exclusively as described above would mean getting rid of all this progress.
If this does happen, recording studios may as well junk their zillion-track boards and go back to mono, since we'll all be listening to music in what a 12-year-old considers good sound on his dinky ear piece as he twirls around on his skateboard.
Yuck.
(Besides, what would I do with my couple of thousand CDs?)
This would mean listening to music on the tinny speakers of your computer or some mobile handheld device with the super-dinky earphones.
What this would represent is a backwards march for technology, in my opinion. We've had more than 100 years of technological advances in the improvement of recorded sound: flat discs replacing cylinders (1890s), the electronic microphone (1925), magnetic recording tape (1948), stereo (1958), digital recording (1981).
Getting rid of the CD and storing and listening to music exclusively as described above would mean getting rid of all this progress.
If this does happen, recording studios may as well junk their zillion-track boards and go back to mono, since we'll all be listening to music in what a 12-year-old considers good sound on his dinky ear piece as he twirls around on his skateboard.
Yuck.
(Besides, what would I do with my couple of thousand CDs?)