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Without a doubt, the music playback sound quality of a CD is far better than the playback quality of music that is recorded on a vinyl record. So too, vinyl records, in spite of the owners best efforts to maintain the playing quality of those vinyl records, do wear out, beginning with the first time that each and every record is played on a record player.

Worse yet, it is so sad to play a record that I bought more than forty years ago and also hear all of that back round noise, together with the pops caused by scratches and dust. You can remove the dust, but you cant fix the scratches or put back the wear caused by just playing the record for your enjoyment.

On the other hand, CDs don't wear out and you can play them as many times as you like, without the fear of damage to those very expensive CDs that you bought in those music stores. They will last forever, as long as you aren't careless and damage the side that contains those recorded bites of information. They can also warp if you leave your CDs in a hot car.

I took great care to preserve the playing quality of my vinyl records, and I now have nearly 2,000 of them in my collection. To prevent ware due to playing those records years ago I bought a reel to reel tape recorder and recorded the music on tape for my continued enjoyment. Since I play the violin and I like most kinds of music, I'm so glad that I did record all of that music on tape, in order to preserve the quality of my record collection.

Then again, the music sung and/or played by long gone but truly great artists is still mine to enjoy for as long as I live. Much of that music of the past is gone forever from the marketplace and you will have to look long and hard in order to find a playable recording of the music.

I still buy used vinyl records to add to my music collection because I found a way to remove the dust and improve to playing quality of those used records. The invention of the computer, CDs and DVDs makes it possible for me to play that music directly onto my computer and create a CD. So too, the software that I purchased for doing so also edits out most of the back round noise and the pops. The result is that the music comes alive and is as clear and vibrant, if not better, than the day that is was recorded those many years ago.

People who collect vinyl records now have a good reason to get more of them, beside the fact that some of those vinyl records are very expensive if they have never been played. In other words, the real value is the entertainment value to the user, rather than the collector value of the record itself.

Would you like to hear the music created by long gone but not completely forgotten artists of their time? There is a good chance that you can get it from me, on a CD that can last forever. That is the only reason why the CD format is far better than those vinyl records.

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