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Re: The Digital Future

> Is CD going to be relegated to being data storage device
> (probably at some point to be eclipsed by DVD) or do you
> think that it will still be the dominant digital home music
> format for some time to come?

Why do you care, as an audiophile, what the **dominant**
home music format is? I mean, after all, you've
just stated:

> I have never posted on the digital asylum (being a vinyl
> and tube asylum contributor)

So how long has it been since vinyl and/or tubes have
been **dominant**? (20 years for vinyl, 40 years for
tubes?) You like 'em, and there are enough still
floating around to make it feasible to continue to listen
to them (heck, there are still people listening to
78's). Same with CDs (and, BTW, iPod/MP3 is really a
replacement for cassettes in terms of quality/convenience,
though the possibility of downloading music over a wire
is of course something new under the sun since the
heyday of cassettes). Oh, and as far as SACD/DVD-A
being "dead" -- when I think of a **dead** medium, I
think of something like Elcaset or Philips' DCC ("Digital
Compact Cassette", not "Dunhill Compact Classics" ;-> );
i.e., nobody wanted it, there's no more hardware. SACD
and DVD-A are far from dead by those standards (even
Sony's MiniDisc isn't dead by those standards).

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