[linux-audio-user] Re: Totally OT

[Cesare Marilungo]

Marije Baalman wrote:

> Hiho,
>
> Adam Sampson wrote:
>
>> Cesare Marilungo <cesare at poeticstudios.com> writes:
>>  
>>
>>> Another reason, and this is why I was sarcastic with your first
>>> post, Maluvia, is that there are still people who believe that a
>>> printed cd sounds better than a cd-r or a flac file downloaded from
>>> the Net.
>>>   
>>
>>
>> It won't sound better, but there are other advantages to buying a real
>> CD (even if it's a CDR that the band's produced themselves) -- having
>> a nicely-printed case with liner notes, and having a physical artefact
>> that represents the music you've paid for.
>>
> there is a difference between a CD-R and a CD... not directly the 
> sound quality, but how long the data is preserved... CD-R's decay much 
> faster than printed CD's, even faster when not stored right. Of 
> course, this also depends on the brand of CD-R you get: some are 
> better than others.
> So in the end, it may be cheaper to get the real CD instead of a 
> burned copy of it... as you have to renew the second one from time to 
> time. Of course, if you don't like the music anymore after a few 
> years, then there's no problem...
>
> sincerely,
> Marije
>
>
This is true. Even if, in my experience, it happened also with some 
printed cds were a wronk ink were used. For instance it happened with 
some phillips classical recordings.

At the price of  10 cheap CDRs from a small label or mainstream 5 CDs 
you can buy an hard disk to backup hundreds if not thousands CDs at full 
quality.

But my argument was that people's perception of an artefact that stores 
a digitalized information (music in this case) is still tied with the 
physical value, when what matter are just the bits.

Once something has been digitalized it's archived for the eternity, or 
better as long as somebody owns a backup. This is also saving old 
records and films that would've been lost otherwise.

c.
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