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"Are you too young to have witnessed how quickly records and cassettes died once CD technology became available to the masses? We went from always having to hear a humming from the background noise of the cassettes and records to almost perfect silence when the music wasn't playing."

I did live through that transition. While I agree - then and now - that the sound quality was superior, it was the ability to random access songs on the album that excited me.

That was groundbreaking - it was incredible! Better sound quality was just a bonus ... any song on the album, right this second, without having to do anything!




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