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I grew up in the age where I just caught the last glimpses of Vinyl. I actually never owned a player myself but my cousin did and I used to copy his records onto cassette. I recall the sound was very shhh shhh if the big round usually black over sized record.

I never though twice back then how big a cumbersome it was. I don't think I even questioned the poor quality of some. THEN we got the CD. Wowee I was impressed. Half the size? Can skip tracks without lifting anything. Just the use of a simple button and hey presto there you were! I was in my element.

Oh I could buy a carry around CD/Cassette player that could record directly to my cassette! Oh the joy! I could even carry around the player...run with it if I wished.

That was 20 or so years ago. Now I see the same thing happening with regards to degrading of quality of the CD. If not kept in its little box it too will not play very well. We've seen DAT come and go we've seen a few things that are smaller than the CD try us out but we STILL stick with the CD.

Nothing is ever perfect but if you take into account the swiftness on how the CD functions; the quality will never change if you look after it (this can be for everything!) and it is much easier to carry around.

Now you could not carry a record around in your car could you? How would you play a record on the move? Put it in a very very big bag....but as the needle has to be more or less still this better go on your head...oh and if you walk again the stylus will jerk around so unless you want to hear something sounding like a jazz concert you wouldn't win this.

We live in an age where we are want to save space. Look at the Japanese they are building hotels that are the size of a very small tunnel. You crawl in and you have a bed and that's it! But its not only that is it? The sheer quality in sound is far superior than any Vinyl I have ever heard.

Cd's win tenfold over Vinyl. Overall a record is just too big! A CD has a much richer sound and no matter how well you looked after your vinyl record it somehow the sound always managed to sound worse after awhile. We just have to look what has tried to take it place not even smaller recording media has. Just goes to show Cd's rule!

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