A bit of what I've seen over the past decade or so is that it doesn't appear so much that people stop using a particular format en masse, just that younger generations simply don't pick it up. I still have older clients who, despite having incorporated digital players of sorts, still look upon their CD collection as their "true" music collection simply because it was the dominant medium when they were in the prime of their collecting. 

I suppose one day I'll look at the "pure thoughts delivered by microwave into the barcoded skulls of the young" as a fad and cling to my dusty old hard-drives as the heart and soul of my collection.

@TripEnglish,

Excellent words. You hit the point.

 @steph : there ARE stores that sells lossless files in France, even a totally french website : qobuz.com

Great mbee,

i didn't know this website !

Seems to be very interesting.

A very cool place for my BeoSound 5 !

Also, check out www.2l.no  and http://www.linnrecords.com/

soundproof:

Also, check out www.2l.no  and http://www.linnrecords.com/

Oh no, the options are changing again! Just got to use bluray to immerse myself in that Nordic sound experience.

Here's a blog link that just seems to chime with Trip's post above.

Graham

david coyne:

I'm a little frustrated by this thread, if for no other reason that I dont know where you all get your digital music from?!!!!!!!!!!

Ripped from CDs.  Downloaded from iTunes and allofmp3.com (until they stopped taking Paypal).  Downloaded from torrents.  Downloaded from the artist's themselves when they're posted up for free.

Digital video: DVDs ripped to hard drive.

All HDs backed up using SuperDuper. Hard drives both directly wired (two mirroring each other) and another over wifi to another room.

No physical disks anywhere in my home.

vikinger:

Puncher:

I expect this'll end up an inverse of the "what's the point of mp3 ...." thread!

So the contributors will progressively become more and more polite and more accommodating of the views of others?

Graham

 

Bahahahaha win!

Hello

I never realised there were so many sites where you could actually purchase high bit rate music....

Now probably a silly question, do B&O CD players play SACD??

David

david coyne:

Hello

I never realised there were so many sites where you could actually purchase high bit rate music....

Now probably a silly question, do B&O CD players play SACD??

David

As I think you've already guessed .....................No!

Puncher:

david coyne:

Hello

I never realised there were so many sites where you could actually purchase high bit rate music....

Now probably a silly question, do B&O CD players play SACD??

David

As I think you've already guessed .....................No!

SAcD