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The awful truth about CDs, do they have the same shelve life as LP's ?

The answer is properly not. Recent studies have shown that the chemicals used in their manufacture of CDs have reduced their life expectancy to ten years, not all but many, as per Paul Mcgowans email. The suggestion was given that if you have suspect CD's they should be re-copied. But my question is how do you identify these? I can tell you that I have a great deal of LPs and I can play anyone of these with great success and some are 40 years old. This no doubt would give some audiophiles another good reason to hold onto their belief that LPs are the way to go.
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kijanki
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Hard drives fail fast (in comparison) and the new solid state drives are no better and some worse than the spinning platter.

Backup drives, that are not in use (unpowered), almost never fail. I keep two backups (drives are cheap), in addition to main music drive, just in case of something bad happening during updates (second backup in different location in case of fire, theft, etc). The chance of failure of two unpowered drives in storage is pretty much zero. As for the SSD - the main problem is limited number of writes to each sector - completely unimportant in this application. Again - unpowered drives don’t likely fail.
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"Now the music industry wants us all to support download music and music servers and abandon the CD as a medium. Is that in our best interest, or theirs?"   (My quote)

1. Nobody’s putting a gun to your head and making you switch formats. (sfall's response)

Who said anything about someone putting a gun to my head??

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All my CDs self destructed after 10 years just like Mission Impossible.
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Very nice summation- grateful.

Happy Listening!
jafant
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wolf_garcia-

I own that Little Feat set as well. How are your discs decomposing?
I will check mine today.  Happy Listening!
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