Rediscovery

@tomic601 

I just got to 70! For 5 years, I've approached its arrival much as a doomsday-prepper. As for the vice-grip, w/o it, I would have already succumbed, repeatedly.

I'm not a very good old, retired, white dude. I can walk to past a golf course within 4 minutes from my front door; a little farther to pass by where folks fish, and the Atlantic Ocean is 20 minutes away. 

Those little holes in the ground, next to the flags, are just too far away from each other for my liking, and everything you reel in out of the water, any water, smells bad.

As for "them," I didn't mean to anthropomorphize my cd's. I was being PC, bcs I've never known their individual gender identities. I think it'd be great if there were a word solely for a bunch o' cd's! That'd be cool; like a murder of crows or a shrewdness of apes.

I'm open to suggestions.

Yeah, rip 'em and have the best of both worlds.  It takes some work to understand how to optimize the sound of digital.  It's worth it!

bob70

15 posts

"I think it'd be great if there were a word solely for a bunch o' cd's! That'd be cool; like a murder of crows or a shrewdness of apes.

I'm open to suggestions."

......................................

bob, this is worth a separate discussion, just to see the creativity that emanates from this crowd. Please start one!!!!

Elliott

but I also have a multi CD player (Onkyo) which I load with a lot of music which I enjoy...

Same here.  I picked up a Pioneer 300 disc "jukebox" CD/DVD carousel to insert into my office system.  I drew up an Excel spreadsheet with the CD names, artist, slot # and printed it off for easy reference.  I even typed in the disc names and artists into the player itself (somewhat tedious, but a dreary Sunday afternoon and bottle of Aberfeldy to take the sting off made it bearable).

I had recently scored a good-sized CD collection off ebay that I couldn't pass up (described as an estate sale of sorts, "my dad's CDs").  I got about 150 CDs of some GREAT jazz and classical (lots of Solti/Chicago SO, Mahler, several Mingus, some Coltrane, Kenny Barron, Dave Holland, Carla Bley, Gary Burton, Steve Swallow - some real gems  and lots of great players) for a whopping $50.  How do you pass that up?  I had already amassed a good-sized CD collection but wanted something to put this great, new music in that would be convenient.  The Pioneer DV-F727 has worked out really well.  

Streaming certainly has its place in my world, and I do it often, but I'm probably about 35-40% CD content.

I’ve abandoned CDs for years mostly because most of my collection was ripped to HDD and streaming is so convenient. However, recently I’ve been bringing some of my CDs back from storage (trying a CD transport) and even purchased few new ones. Some of the music I have on CD isn’t even available on Tidal or Qobuz and I missed listening to those albums.