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matthewb
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this is Serious Gourmet Bait to get me to write a long hi-fi thread. maybe these could be sit and talk videos instead if there's any interest. * here's a tldr; on the hi-fi format wars in 2025: - vinyl is still enormously popular and many serious audiophiles optimize their entire system for vinyl playback rather than CD or streaming - despite CDs being largely forgotten by the average consumer, audiophiles still love CDs and often prefer them to streaming - streaming is becoming more and more prevalent, to the extent that it's the default for most showrooms. arguably the most complex and expensive to optimize vs. vinyl and CDs.
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matthewb
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* redbook fever the first public demo of a CD player took place in March 1979 by Phillips, which led to the formalization of the redbook CD standard (44.1kHz/16-bit/74min) in June 1980. the first consumer CD player was released in October 1982 and by May 1985 the first CD (Dire Straits - Brother In Arms) sold 1 million copies. after the proliferation of the redbook CD from the late 1980s onward, many other formats followed like: - HDCD (1995) - XRCD, XRCD2, XRCD24 (1995-2002) - SACD (1999) - SHM-CD (2007) - Blu-spec CD (2008), Blu-spec CD2 (2012) - HQCD (2008), UHQCD (2015) - MQA-CD (2017) I've written here and there about collecting CDs and the various formats, see here: https://warpcast.com/matthewb/0x825059ef
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