That’s right, the CD player has not been eliminated since its inception, but has been sublimated. People's lives are very fast, busy with buses and subways. Carrying a mobile phone with you and listening to music is enough to relieve boredom, but if you really want to relax, you can make a latte, turn on the stereo, turn on the CD player, and put on a CD of your choice. It is the relaxation in life.
First of all, in the digital age, music was first digitized, with CDs, MP3s and MDs, then pictures and videos, LD, VCD and DVIDD, collectively referred to as digital multimedia, and then in the Internet age, there are Network (Internet, including local area network) music and video are collectively referred to as streaming media. Therefore, in order to adapt to the times, just as CD replaced LP, in the Internet era, CD will become more and more niche, and will only serve as a kind of sentiment and emotion. A sense of ritual. In fact, CD, like hard disk, is just a digital carrier. No matter what medium the digital music is stored in, it needs to be extracted and decoded before it can be played. Therefore, the sound quality does not depend on the storage medium, but on the extraction and decoding circuit. It does not mean that the sound quality of CD is necessarily better than that of CD. For digital playback, if your CD supports digital playback, if you rip the CD tracks at low speed and compare them, there will be basically no obvious difference. To compare, you must use the same audio source and decoding. If the sound quality is affected by the existence of hard disks, cinemas will not use hard disks to store Atmos movies. Furthermore, the master tapes for making CDs are also stored on hard disks rather than discs. Of course, there are still subtle differences in the listening experience between analog storage (LP, tape) and digital storage (hard disk, optical disk) on lower-end playback equipment!
The reason is not the expensive discs, but the arrival of the era of meager profits and the era of self-media.
Nowadays, good CDs are priced at sky-high prices every day! Ordinary fans can only wait and see!
I am a music lover who is relatively familiar with CD records. Genuine CDs were indeed not cheap for Chinese music lovers or audiophiles twenty or thirty years ago, but now they are no longer a problem at all. As for those out-of-print records and sky-high-priced records, they are actually so good at it. They don’t have to follow what others say, and reissues are not bad. But it is true that CD players will not be eliminated for a period of time. Because owning anything you like is a sense of happiness. When downloading online digital broadcasts, you can only listen or watch them but not touch them. Simply put, public and private. Those are two levels of enjoyment, and they are not the same. So it makes sense that more and more good records are going to command sky-high prices. Most people want to have more joy and happiness.
Most people just listen to it, so mp3 objectively beats CD
It should not be called defeat, but natural elimination.
Concepts are confused. CD players are also digital players.
In the past, when listening to music, the sound sources were vinyl records and cassette tapes, all of which were analog signals.
CD discs, music is recorded on the disc in the form of digital encoding, and is decoded and converted into analog signals by the CD player.
With the development of electronic technology, music is encoded into digital signals and can be stored in memory cards. In the past, the manufacturing cost of memory cards was high, but now it has been solved. For example, the memory cards built into mobile phones have reached 64G and 128G.
The storage capacity of CD discs is relatively small. For example, there are only about 20 songs that are about 3 minutes long, and these 20 songs are converted to lossless sound quality and do not exceed 1G. In other words, the phone has a built-in 64G memory card, which is equivalent to the storage capacity of 64 CD discs.
A CD player decodes the music on a CD disc and converts it into an analog signal. The CD player is large in size and has high manufacturing costs. The decoding chip built into the mobile phone can also decode and convert digital signals into analog signals.
The quality of sound has nothing to do with the storage medium, whether it is a CD disc or a memory card, but rather the size of the storage. For example, CDs are divided into ordinary CDs and HDCDs. For the same music, HDCDs have larger storage capacity than ordinary CDs and have better sound quality.
There are music player software on the Internet. For example, another software provided by Kugou, viper HiFi, can convert entire CDs and HDCDs into lossless music. Download it and try it and you will understand (you have to pay). Cool, there is a HiFi section, and many are available for free download.
"What defeats you is not innocence but innocence." Although it is not innocent that beats the CD player, it has something to do with the price of the disc.
The price of CD players increased from a few thousand yuan at the beginning to a few hundred yuan later. This process took a very short time, only 2/3 years. However, the price of optical discs has always been relatively strong. From tens of yuan per piece, the price dropped to more than ten yuan. This interval was very long, which played a role in hindering the sales of CD players.
However, the real reason for the delisting of CD players is not entirely the price of optical discs. The emergence of more advanced audio and video equipment such as MP3 and P4 are all important reasons for the delisting of CD players.
What beats CD is not that it is expensive, but that it is not “expensive” enough. Are diamonds expensive? Why does everyone want to own them? Isn’t a commemorative glass CD only worth a thousand yuan now? Is there a market?