The Rapid Rise (& Fall) of the CD

@2psyop  Well. I'm an older person who was also around when CD was first introduced.  At the time, I was running two turntables, reel to reel, and a cassette tape player.  Later on, I added a CD player to the mix.  Now a days, I stream exclusively.  As I said, CD and vinyl are still around, and I imagine that they'll always be around to some extent.  If you attend any high end audio show from here to Kalamazoo, you'll see turn tables spinning vinyl records in just about every room.  However, when you look around that room, you'll see practically nobody but middle age older people salivating over the old physical media (and that incudes the people running the room).  That's the reality.  Also, I come in contact with lots of younger people through family and friends, and not one of them listen to their music via a CD player, let alone a turn table.  That's the real reality of the situation.  My point being, neither CD or vinyl is the future.  At least not with the young, who are the future.  Happy listening.

Kennymac, not arguing here. I respect all opinions. Some of my younger friends have albums and they listen to them but only a few. I also have friends who go the see movies… this is after dvds, blueray discs and renting media and now streaming. Why do they go to the movie theatre and why didn’t it die out??? Who knows. It certainly is not mainstream, but it’s still alive and kicking.

I am 58 and never gave up on vinyl. 
When the CD revolution was released I really tried to like it. I just could not get into the format. Of course when you could not get new vinyl anymore I was forced into CDs. I bought a very expensive at the time CD player thinking that may help (it didn’t) Fast Forward to 2016 my daughter is 11 and she wants to get into vinyl. 
I would take her and her friends used record stores and the kids had a blast. 
My daughter built quite a record collection. Then of course vinyl blew up and my daughter and her friends could not afford a new LP anymore. That is went most of them got into CDs getting most for $1-$2 like the LPs we used to buy. Now CDs are going up $7-$8. Now she and her friends are starting college this year. Rooms are so small no room for a TT or CD player. Which means all streaming now. Point as much as we want our kids to enjoy the old ways it will be overtaken by the present. 
All forms have their good and bad I just hope the music continues forever. 
Happy Listening to whatever way you listen to it. 

CDs outsell Vinyl in Great Britain and Europe (per unit). There are titles you can only get on CD and vice versa with streaming. I can give a tinkers fart how many articles and videos come out touting the death of CDs and Vinyl as it's usually from someone who streams and has an axe to grind (looking for justification of monies spent, tribal associations, looking for those clicks and eyeballs or just a malcontent).

This is getting old and kinda pathetic. Enjoy what you like and have and stop with the proselytizing. It's a stupid hobby and not a religion but if it is for you, get some much needed help.

All the best,
Nonoise

@2psyop  I understand thoroughly.  Don't mean to be so blunt, but my previous post says it all in a nutshell.  That's the true reality of the digital world as we live in it today.  I didn't make it that way.  It just is.  Also, music listening and high end audio is supposed to be a fun, passionate, source of pure pleasure, whether that pleasure comes via cassette deck, vinyl, CD, streaming, or, whatever.  Happy listening.