"Jenn" wrote in message
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http://www.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/Musi....ap/index.html
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: High fidelity takes backseat to portability
: POSTED: 1:50 p.m. EDT, April 23, 2007
: Story Highlights
: ? MP3 players now preferred means of listening to music
: ? Stereo system, CD sales way down
: ? Some audiophiles unhappy, but most people like MP3
devices
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I agree with one part of the article, CDs are a thing of the
past. I have transferred all my CDs to Hard Drives and are
networked throughout my house as Hi-Fi. I even have decent
outdoor speakers as well ;-)
Accessibility of MP3 downloads (for free) is great. I use
them to research albums/artists and then BUY the
CD/DVD-A/SACD/LP.
Do I personally own an MP3 player? No! Unless you count my
mobile and I have never used it as one ;-)
BTW also note (and not mentioned in that article) LP sales
are on the up and so are pornographs to play them on.
Apparently "Retro" is in ;-)
Just to demonstrate how far this is going I just bought a
Sony STRDA5200ES receiver (I won't go into why) and this
thing even has a USB port on the front and plays compressed
music MP3, WMA, Atrac. Interesting it will not recognise a
wav file on the USB port but has a Phono input on the back
And to top it off a special sound field option to "Optimise
MP3s" so Sony even recognises when you play back low bitrate
crap it probably won't sound any good on a home system!
We live in interesting times ;-).
Cheers TT