Thread: 11 Years of US CD Sales

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Post by Euell Neverno March 22, 2015 (41 of 51)
audioholik said:

AFAIK, for a monthly fee you can stream any music available in a given streaming service to your heart's content, so there's nothing "one-time" about the experience.

OK. thanks. Out of curiosity, how do these services prevent sharing access, or can they?

Post by chenzl March 22, 2015 (42 of 51)
Claude said:

...The demographics of classical music listeners (mostly people over 40) may currently still favor physical formats, but this will change over time, as the digital natives get older....

How true, but as people are glued to their digital devices, their behaviour will change too, for better for worst.

Post by The Seventh Taylor March 22, 2015 (43 of 51)
All I'm wondering about: At what point will CD sales have shrunk so much that they're lower than SACD sales?

Post by rammiepie March 22, 2015 (44 of 51)
The Seventh Taylor said:

All I'm wondering about: At what point will CD sales have shrunk so much that they're lower than SACD sales?

Good question but I suspect that SACD hybrid discs are also part of the equation when determining CD sales.

Post by Ubertrout March 22, 2015 (45 of 51)
The Seventh Taylor said:

All I'm wondering about: At what point will CD sales have shrunk so much that they're lower than SACD sales?

Even including hybrids, they'd have to plummet really far. Do you mean SACD sales in that same year or SACD sales in 2003-4?

Post by TerraEpon March 22, 2015 (46 of 51)
Euell Neverno said:

OK. thanks. Out of curiosity, how do these services prevent sharing access, or can they?

Well most of the time they can see if anyone is logged in and prevent a second log in -- I assume you mean people giving out access to each others' log in and thus multiple people can make use of one account.

Obviously they can't prevent people broadcasting it to people in the same room, or people sharing a computer and accessing at different times or whatever...but you can't do that with a CD or any other medium either.

Post by The Seventh Taylor March 22, 2015 (47 of 51)
Ubertrout said:

Even including hybrids, they'd have to plummet really far. Do you mean SACD sales in that same year or SACD sales in 2003-4?

Yes, in the same year. My impression is that SACD sales are a lot more stable than CD sales.

Post by rammiepie March 23, 2015 (48 of 51)
The Seventh Taylor said:

Yes, in the same year. My impression is that SACD sales are a lot more stable than CD sales.

I agree. Seems we're getting more SACDs now than ever with more announced every day. Unlike RBCDs, impossible to copy SACDs and share them with friends and sales have to be rather robust in order for companies to continue producing them.

Post by Kutyatest March 23, 2015 (49 of 51)
rammiepie said:

I agree. Seems we're getting more SACDs now than ever with more announced every day. Unlike RBCDs, impossible to copy SACDs and share them with friends and sales have to be rather robust in order for companies to continue producing them.

I couldn't agree more. It really seems as if there are more SACDs - and in fact DVD-As also - available over the past year for me than I should sensibly allow myself to buy!

And to think when I first considered buying a hi-res player back in 2006, I was reading internet posts where people had written both of these formats off as dead already.

Post by rammiepie March 23, 2015 (50 of 51)
Kutyatest said:

I couldn't agree more. It really seems as if there are more SACDs - and in fact DVD-As also - available over the past year for me than I should sensibly allow myself to buy!

And to think when I first considered by a hi-res player back in 2006, I was reading internet posts where people had written both of these formats off as dead already.

I wouldn't be surprised, Steve, with the sudden resurgence of multichannel SACD and DVD~A and to a lesser extent BD~A that artrists, old and new, will finally get the message that the public does care for quality hi res multichannel music as it renders their musical vision in its best possible light and sincerely hope this renaissance of musical treasures, old and new continues unabated for a few more glorious years.

I also have this persistent feeling that the BEST is yet to come!

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