CD Revival?

[jandl100]

I had a trial fortnight with idagio, a classical only streaming service.
They've thought out the indexing and search facilities quite well for classical.
Sadly, they are still coming up to speed in terms of catalogue and are way behind Spotify and Qobuz etc.
Their standard service is CD quality at £10 per month.

I'm one of the poor buggers who is perfectly happy with streaming.
My favoured service is Qobuz, and I only really listen to classical. Uniquely (?) the Qobuz listings are indexed by recording company (e.g. Decca, ECM etc) which is a very powerful way of finding new to me music and recordings.

[Liberdade]

There's a heck of a lot of relatively obscure music - free jazz, contemporary classical, etc - that was only ever issued on CD in very limited quantities, and which will probably never be reissued, nor available on a streaming service. Perhaps not enough to trigger a revival of the CD format, but certainly enough to maintain ongoing interest in it, and decent prices on ebay for rare items.

[GrahamS]

My niece lives in a village in central Lincolnshire quite near the town of Bourne. She cannot get a broadband service. She gets dial-up speeds and cannot stream anything. CD and vinyl are her only sources. I visit often and enjoy listening to whatever CDs she has recently bought. I have been having broadband speed problems for the past week or so - I live not two clicks from a major exchange but my download speed has deteriorated to less that 4.5kBps. I pay for 20! My provider is Sky, who say that they are "working on it." If I didn't have my CDs and my Vinyls I would have nothing.

It will be a while before I consign my music pleasures to a "streaming" source, if ever.

[Macca]

I have Spotify but my main use of it is to identify whether a particular album is worth buying or not in LP or CD format.

I do pity the poor buggers who imagine their streamed version is anything close to what can be had via LP.

Depends on what you're looking for in a listening experience and how good your streaming set up is.

[struth]

streaming can be superb, done right. as can vinyl and cd.. all just different ways to a goal

[walpurgis]

I have been having broadband speed problems for the past week or so - I live not two clicks from a major exchange but my download speed has deteriorated to less that 4.5kBps.

Mine is as poor sometimes and not much better at the best of times and I'm in West London!

[Silent]

I think I may be right in predicting that before too long, CD's will go through a similar revival in interest and 'fashionability' to that experienced by records some years ago, bringing them to their undeniable current popularity.

Some manufacturers are introducing new high spec CD players and transports. Have they spotted a trend? I have a feeling there is the beginnings of one.

CD's are very cheap at the moment. Is this the time to start stocking up?

Fortunately, I have nearly all the CD's I'm likely to want and several decent players and DAC's, so I suppose I'm ahead of the game .

I've not noticed a trend but I have (within the last year) been buying plenty of CDs. My main reasoning is to hear my favourite songs in a higher quality than Spotify. I hope there isn't such a revival, judging by the price of vinyls at the moment, I definitely don't want CDs going the same way.