bach: Physical Media is Superior

bach 05.31.26	Been more of a cd guy lately. I find them less large and cumbersome than records. love vinyl but they take up quite a bit of space in my apartment. plus I have a 9 year old car that has a cd player
twlight 05.31.26	Digital media is a cool things but sucks that a company like Spotify monopolized it. The ramifications are rampant
twlight 05.31.26	Cd on a good car stereo is still my fav way to hear something
brickhed 05.31.26	managed to find 3 on cassette from a black metal distro, package is currently on the way. also picked up their first album while I was at it. been looking for 11, 21, and 26 for a while, and I have Nortt - Gudsforladt on CD. for favorites its normally cassette, but it depends on the format. hardcore, black metal, folk, and dungeon synth i vastly prefer on cassette since the vibes fit for a handful of reasons. for genres like goregrind or bdm i'm perfectly fine with CD, since it's a staple of underground genres like that.
twlight 05.31.26	What’s your listening set up for cassette?
BAT 05.31.26	i've always been a cd person, very versatile/pretty much every car i've ever driven had a cd player soo very easy to just pop in. also cheap/no crazy sound equipment needed/easy to backup/etc. i tend to get vinyl for bands i want to support, like least a third of my collection is stuff i'd gotten off blogspot back in the day annd picked up a repress when it came around. elsewise my record collections stuff i just stumbled into at stores and gave a shot, great way to discover pre-internet music. my cd collections all over the place, pretty much anytime i hit a concert i'd grab a cd thaan like 15+years of thrifting. and for movies i've pretty much locked in on blu ray, they look great and they're scratch resistant. i still get dvds for more obscure stuff buuut i'm soured on having them delivered through the mail, it's like a 75% chance of showing up damaged/loose in case/etc. when i'm thrifting tho i tend to grab a buncha dvds cause it's easier to check the condition.
bach 05.31.26	@brickhed Found 26 at this local cd place in my area that always has a great metal selection. Other 3, 21, 12, the nortt cd and a few others on here are from Hell's Headbangers. Maybe I'll go through the list and edit in where I found each product even if its local just to shout out the buisness incase other users stop through and wanna peep it or live near by
bach 05.31.26	@bat Love cds man. Growing up it was my main way of consuming music before high school rolled around and i started having unlimited access to the internet. Vinyl is cool but if I'm being real it's a pain in the ass. Anytime I order a record in the mail or travel with them (especially air travel) they get fucked up. A cracked jewel case is an easy fix but those fucked up corners on your LP are never gonna be the same
thumbcrusher 05.31.26	"Digital media is a cool things but sucks that a company like Spotify monopolized it. The ramifications are rampant" There are quite a few other streaming platforms - YouTube Music, Apple, Tidal, Amazon, Deezer and more. All the companies have pros and cons but wouldn't say it's a Spotify monopoly, even tho they're the biggest I use YouTube as when music sub is combined with YT premium, the price for both is pretty good
thumbcrusher 05.31.26	I used to love getting loads of CDs but the possibilites of streaming was too good when it became a thing. Miss CDs in a way but the fact I've have them lying around for so long untouched is a sign of my revealed preferences I guess
Voivod 05.31.26	Physical media started to get better, once streaming sites started to maime/compress hosted music to save space/time/what have you. The effect on older music, which was lushly recorded, is devastating.
zakalwe 05.31.26	14 is classic
hel9000 05.31.26	Getting way back into CDs and loving it. I got too into vinyl over the last decade plus and now I’m trying to unload like half my collection on Discogs. Vinyl at its best is amazing, but I can’t justify the cost anymore when half the pressings I get just objectively sound worse than digital. Having a big vinyl collection is such a colossal pain if you have to move too.
Pooter9000 05.31.26	CD supremacy forever, the undisputed king of physical media. Can have it on your person with a portable CD player, at home in many different ways, in your car, can burn stuff from your computer on it or digitalize it and put it on your phone, it just does it all. Bought the new Elder on CD, my 20th CD purchase this year so far. Fuck streaming.
Hyperion1001 05.31.26	yeah digital is king. if you want to go physical, CD’s are the best option. vinyl sucks and anyone telling you it’s higher fidelity than uncompressed digital is huffing glue.
Pooter9000 05.31.26	"vinyl sucks" [2] All aboard the vinyl hate train!!!!
Hyperion1001 05.31.26	the funniest part to me is that we genuinely created the closest thing to a post scarcity media format with uncompressed digital media and millennials were instantly like “no, it’s the waste of resources and damage to the environment that makes music special.” and I’ll admit, I fell for it, but I have realized the err of my ways now.
MO 05.31.26	nice list. I recently got 9 on vinyl, also currents by tame impala, and some older pink floyd and zep vinyls too
budgie 05.31.26	analog releases in the 80s typically had a different master than digital releases, and mastering practices changed for the worse in the 90s. everyone who truly likes music should try to get their hands on early pressings of their favorite pre90s records at some point vinyl pressed today seems more of a gimmick because it's probably going to use the same mix as the digital release. sometimes it sounds fucking awful, like anything released by back on black but nothing sounds better than shitty used old vinyl rock albums on a good table with some huge pioneer floorstanders. early pressings of mercyful fate and van halen sound so fucking good it makes you weak in the knees
Hyperion1001 05.31.26	the problem is those same exact masters would sound better in uncompressed WAV format because vinyl inherently adds distortion to the signal chain. that distortion may be what sounds “better” to your ears, but it is objectively a degraded signal chain compared to uncompressed digital.
budgie 05.31.26	they would sound more accurate*, the treble roll off on vinyl is nice if you are sensitive to sibilance. until you look at fourier transforms for digital signal processsing in an engineering textbook and discover that nobody is really certain how meaningful the loss of data during is or isn't
Hyperion1001 05.31.26	yeah I guess accurate is probably the right word for it. better is too subjective.
jrlikestodance 05.31.26	Awesome picks ups bro. Particularly love to see 29. I owned the clean version of 23 as a child. I'm finally gonna be reunited with my CD collection this week. Can't even remember what I have since its been 5+ years since I have sorted through em
hel9000 05.31.26	Also with vinyl I can’t stand always having to consider static, dust, cleaning, keeping it out of direct sunlight, all the proper care and storage and everything just to have it degrade every time you play it anyway. It’s so shitty how the quality gets worse the closer the needle gets to the centre too. CDs ftw
ToSmokMuzyki 05.31.26	*activates bluetooth
Supercoolguy64 05.31.26	cds are better than vinyl because vinyl is a meme format for people to show off on twitter and talk about "warmth" (distortion). but at the end of the day all you need is digital files. flac is nice and when i pay for music thats what i choose, but 320kbps mp3 at the end of the day is all you really need. physical media is just a gimmick at this poiint
CrisStyles 05.31.26	About 15 CDs away from 1,000. Listening to CDs in my car has always been my preferred method for hearing music.
arthropod 05.31.26	Prefer CDs, appreciate vinyl and tapes for the charm of dealing with archaic formats. I've recently picked up Crack the Skye and Nightmares as Extensions of the Waking State on CD. Great bands, beautiful art for both releases, my only complaint is the packaging for the latter. I prefer cardboard over plastic but the disc sleeve in the center of the fold is horizontal, which makes the CD hard to pull out. Had to switch places with the booklet.
Asdfp277 05.31.26	all media is physical media tbh
Asdfp277 05.31.26	get y'allselves some hard drives and CD backups tho i agree
brickhed 05.31.26	"What’s your listening set up for cassette?" not much right now, just a WM-SXF44 Sports Walkman. snagged it 4 years ago when i first got into cassettes (and music in general after that) and it's worked pretty great. just waiting for when I need to change the belts. hopefully in the future i can get a good home setup for cassettes. most cd/cassette players have the cassette function broken, which is pretty frustrating. if anyone has some good tips on that i'll keep em in mind.