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Happy 29th birthday, Compact Disc!!

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I still remember the Sony rep giving a demo on the "new" CDs at the PX while stationed in Germany back in 1982... Wow!! I thought to myself.
 
The first CD I heard was in 1982 in Monroe Louisiana. I just started college. It was a Technics unit sitting on top of a Klipsch Cornwall speaker. Sweet sounding. The first CD player I had was a Sanyo DAD-8. Can't remember the last time I listened to one though. All on my Apple TV box uncompressed or lossless.
 
I would still buy them....if there was something to buy and somewhere to buy it.:sigh:
 
Jeez. I was 12 years old. I remember my first disc player that Christmas. I got 2 cds, ZZ Top and Wang Chung. 5 days later I killed the player with a static shock walking across carpet.

I forgot how ugly that first one was tho...
 

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The CD, is and remains, one of the great strokes of brilliance... I am a firm addict of the medium, and will probably remain so until my dying day. :D

Rick Vestal said:
Jeez. I was 12 years old. I remember my first disc player that Christmas. I got 2 cds, ZZ Top and Wang Chung. 5 days later I killed the player with a static shock walking across carpet.

I forgot how ugly that first one was tho...
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Heee Heee... my first one was a Fisher built in 1984 that I bought well used. I thought, how fitting to have a CD player built in the year I was born! :banana: It was actually pretty nice, with a very warm sound. I can't remember what happened to it though. I would love to have another one, what a conversation piece from the Dawn of the CD era. OMG I'm getting old!! :eek: :tears: :sigh:
 
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Lets not forget James Russell who's inventive work on CD's goes back to the mid 1960s. My father inlaw, a phsysicist, new Russell. They worked on compact disc technology and optical devices for the Apollo program. Russell loved music and this was part of his inspiration. My father inlaw had a computer the size Volkswagen in his living room back in 1962 ! He had cd related prototypes manufactured by Perkin Elmer corp. in Connecticut from the 1970-75 era in his basement in N.Y. which I recall seeing about 20 years ago (maybe I should check to see if locate these relics)

http://web.mit.edu/invent/iow/russell.html
 
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Wish it was a happy birthday for the CD, as the medium is certainly capable of a lot. Unfortunately, the recording industry is only utilizing maybe a few percent of it’s capabilities with today’s highly dynamically compressed, bass boosted messes. Quite an insult to the format really. I’d like to buy some of the new young talent, but just cant listen to the bunch of crap the record companies have made out of the recordings.
 
mike d said:
I would still buy them....if there was something to buy and somewhere to buy it.:sigh:
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It depends on your music preferences: for classical music, this is a great bargain period: superb boxes with complete collections from the major brands for 1 or 2 $ a cd. Online stores carry most of what is currently available, and then you have the used CD market, that is booming due to people selling their CDs to get into music servers and PC based sound systems. In some parts of the world, like Italy, there are great classical music stores with lots of ongoing sales. Every time I visit there I bring home about 40 or 50 cds!
 
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anden said:
Lets not forget James Russell who's inventive work on CD's goes back to the mid 1960s. My father inlaw, a phsysicist, new Russell. They worked on compact disc technology and optical devices for the Apollo program. Russell loved music and this was part of his inspiration. My father inlaw had a computer the size Volkswagen in his living room back in 1962 ! He had cd related prototypes manufactured by Perkin Elmer corp. in Connecticut from the 1970-75 era in his basement in N.Y. which I recall seeing about 20 years ago (maybe I should check to see if locate these relics)

http://web.mit.edu/invent/iow/russell.html
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Great link! Many thanks for sharing this very interesting information with us.
 
Happy Birthday cd... I remember buying cd's even though I didn't have a player because I couldn't afford it..
 
My first player was a Sanyo DAD 8 that I purchased at a Musicraft store in Morton Grove, IL around June 1984. I purchased two CD's before I bought the player at Musicland. Eagles Greatest Hits 1971-1975 and Supremes Compact Command Performances. I still have the disks, the player is long gone.
 
My first CD player was a basic Fisher model... Model number unknown, but I picked it up sometime in the summer of 1986 at "The Bon" in Seattle on sale for around $100. A very basic model, which was followed by the Yamaha CD-2000, which was purchased in the spring of 1987... Once I was convinced that it, the CD, was here to stay.
 
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