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? a boombox is not a toy Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Moore,OK Posts: 687 12V Company: Malibu's Auto Center Position: Janitor/Install Manager Thanks: 1 Thanked 9 Times in 9 Posts	Don't know about all of the stores, but the one by my house had thousands of CDs on sale for $4.99. I bought 11 for $59.49 with tax?
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1 Day Ago	? #3
? DIYMA Regular Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Winchester MA Age: 29 Posts: 624 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Quote: at least one person still buying CDs... I was gonna say... Who buys CDs??? Doesn't even most streaming and MP3 files have CD quality audio these days ?
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? DIYMA freshman Join Date: Feb 2012 Location: Illinois Posts: 76 Thanks: 17 Thanked 10 Times in 8 Posts	Quote: Doesn't even most streaming and MP3 files have CD quality audio these days ? Actually, it's not so much the quality of the format as it is the DAC process a lot of source units use. MP3 DAC are cheap and not usually made to a very high standard. A CD DAC seems to be much more high-tech and usually reproduces a cleaner sound. I'm going to guess it's due to the over-sampling many CD players use which MP3 files don't require. Personally, I can still tell a huge difference in mine between a real/original CD and an MP3 as high as 320kbps bitrate, in my car.
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? a boombox is not a toy Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Moore,OK Posts: 687 12V Company: Malibu's Auto Center Position: Janitor/Install Manager Thanks: 1 Thanked 9 Times in 9 Posts	I've been buying a lot of Telarc CDs of eBay lately too. It's almost an addiction.
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? DIYMA freshman Join Date: Feb 2012 Location: Illinois Posts: 76 Thanks: 17 Thanked 10 Times in 8 Posts	Quote: And I don't necessarily buy into the theory that the gold layer offers any improvements in playback accuracy, but gold and OOP CD's usually (but not always) have a better mastering of the recording than what's mass market available these days. It has nothing to do with sound quality, playback accuracy or a better mastering. They're gold so they "last longer". That's it. No other reason. Gold Compact Disc - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Quote: I doubt I'd buy any music at Best Buy... it's all remastered compressed to hell dreck and poorly recorded compilations from what I've seen. Really? Where do people come up with these accusations that Best Buy gets any other product that's different than products at other stores (other than in-house brands)? This is pure drivel. The CD manufactures don't have a separate plant or production line to make things for Best Buy. Best Buy doesn't have the market pulling power that Walmart does. They can't just call any manufacture and say "Make us 5 million of these" like Walmart does.
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? DIYMA Regular Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Mesa, AZ Posts: 634 Thanks: 0 Thanked 53 Times in 36 Posts	I don't have the info at hand at the moment to cite, but some of the gold CD manufacturers have touted that the gold layer has less imperfections than an aluminum layer, resulting in superior playback. that's what I was referring to. And most gold Cd's have a different mastering, especially DCC and AF, so it's just more than the longevity of the gold. Quote: Really? Where do people come up with these accusations that Best Buy gets any other product that's different than products at other stores (other than in-house brands)? This is pure drivel. The CD manufactures don't have a separate plant or production line to make things for Best Buy. Best Buy doesn't have the market pulling power that Walmart does. They can't just call any manufacture and say "Make us 5 million of these" like Walmart does. I didn't mean to imply that Best Buy has some proprietary product offerings, but rather they offer new releases/re-releases that everyone else offers today (even my favorite local record stores), that tend to be brickwalled sonically and poorly compiled. It has to do with the way music is mastered these days, loud & compressed for the Ipod generation.
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? DIYMA freshman Join Date: Feb 2012 Location: Illinois Posts: 76 Thanks: 17 Thanked 10 Times in 8 Posts	Quote: I don't have the info at hand at the moment to cite, but some of the gold CD manufacturers have touted that the gold layer has less imperfections than an aluminum layer, resulting in superior playback. that's what I was referring to. And most gold Cd's have a different mastering, especially DCC and AF, so it's just more than the longevity of the gold. Gotcha. I would imagine it's just marketing hype. Kind of like gold plated RCA ends. Who knows. Quote: I didn't mean to imply that Best Buy has some proprietary product offerings, but rather they offer new releases/re-releases that everyone else offers today (even my favorite local record stores), that tend to be brickwalled sonically and poorly compiled. It has to do with the way music is mastered these days, loud & compressed for the Ipod generation. Oh. OK. Sorry to assume, but since I work there I hear so many assumptions about Best Buy it's pathetic. I may have put my guard up.
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? a boombox is not a toy Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Moore,OK Posts: 687 12V Company: Malibu's Auto Center Position: Janitor/Install Manager Thanks: 1 Thanked 9 Times in 9 Posts	I about pissed my pant laughing at an readers letter from October 1991 Auto Sound & Security. It says that he saw on 60 minutes that CDs will only last for 5 years before they wear out and fall apart.
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15 Hours Ago	? #22
? I void warranties Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Oklahoma City Posts: 63 Thanks: 1 Thanked 4 Times in 4 Posts	I hate having CDs in my car. The discs suffer wear and tear that degrades SQ at best. High temps in the summer can warp them and cold temps make them brittle. Wan't to switch from one album to another? Eject CD, store, extract another CD, insert. If you vehicle gets broken into, you can almost guarantee your book of CDs will be gone. That experience died in the 90's for me once MP3 head units came out. You can actually have your cake and eat it too. My solution is a 160GB iPod classic slaved to my HU with a library of uncompressed AIF goodness. Instant-access convenience AND no SQ compromise. For most, anything over 256kbps mp3s is overkill. For those of us that appreciate SQ and jump though the necessary hoops to convert a vehicle's interior into something that actually sounds good, not so much. Over the past couple of years, 99% of my purchased music has come from iTunes in addition to my CD collection ripped to 320kbps mp3- SQ is respectably good. On most any oem or average Joe aftermarket system, it's not likely most anyone would notice a difference to a CD. With a tuned SQ system, you can definitely hear the additional detail, or lack of it. A discussion on this subject with JOwens at his shop a couple of months ago led me to experiment with uncompressed CD rips. I've since re-ripped a few hundred of my CD's to AIF and switched from a 32GB to a 160GB iPod to contain the much larger music files to maintain some variety. It has recently occurred to me that I've been paying more a premium for the convenience of instant downloads than I prefer. If the "deluxe" versions of the albums they sell had an uncompressed option... sure. Legit uncompressed albums/tracks for sale online are rare and the selection from what I've seen so far is very poor/expensive... and on iTunes, does not exist. I'm back to buying CD's.... damn the inconvenience of tracking down the CD and ripping it until a viable alternative becomes available. Lately, I've been thumbing through the $4.99 section of Best Buy's CD bargain bin too. Hope to get in on the next GTG, Jason. Let me know in advance so I can get off work.
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12 Hours Ago	? #23
? DIYMA freshman Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: CA Posts: 146 Thanks: 0 Thanked 3 Times in 2 Posts	Quote: I don't have the info at hand at the moment to cite, but some of the gold CD manufacturers have touted that the gold layer has less imperfections than an aluminum layer, resulting in superior playback. that's what I was referring to. And most gold Cd's have a different mastering, especially DCC and AF, so it's just more than the longevity of the gold. I didn't mean to imply that Best Buy has some proprietary product offerings, but rather they offer new releases/re-releases that everyone else offers today (even my favorite local record stores), that tend to be brickwalled sonically and poorly compiled. It has to do with the way music is mastered these days, loud & compressed for the Ipod generation. I've always been skeptical of gold as I think it is less refelctive. But true, most all new pressings suck bad... especially the new "Remasters". My rule of thumb is if it has the dark spine on the CD case, it sounds better, but the clear spine is usually crap.
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