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Re: A2 Trade/Swap???? site discovered - What are your thoughts on such a site?
On Mon, 03 Jul 2000 00:52:05 GMT, salfter@salfter.ncc74656.dyndns.org
(Scott Alfter) wrote:
>You must be pretty rough on your CDs if they're only good for about a year.
>I got my first CD player in late 1993; the CDs I got with it at the time are
>still in like-new condition. Treat them well and they should last a good
>long time. (You didn't scratch the needle across your LPs, did you? Treat
>your CDs the same way you used to treat your records
That's why I think they went in the wrong direction. LPs had to be
handled with extreme care but cassettes could be tossed around without
too much worry. Then CDs come out and we're back to having to be
extremely careful again. :-)
>The better approach would be to either (1) get a better CD player or (2)
>lose the CD player altogether and go back to cassettes (you're not going to
>hear the full dynamic range of a CD in a moving car anyway).
That is another pet peeve of mine about CDs. In a car, not only will
you not get the full benefit of the audio quality but you can also
endanger yourself and others whenever you go to change CDs (or you
could just not worry about the damage you'll do to the CD by grabbing
it wrong and not putting in back into a good protective case). Also,
the way the format works makes it very prone to skipping unless you
add a bunch of extra hardware which increases the price of the player.
I'm buying or leasing a new car probably in the next week or so and
that is one thing I'll definitely make sure of. That I have a
cassette deck and not a CD player. :-)
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