Aiming this really at folks old enough to have used records and/or tapes when they were everyone's primary source, rather than at some of you youngsters who only grew up with CDs to start with. Sorry the post I guess is going to be a bit ageist as a result, but in return allow us old crocks to amuse you with our anecdotes.
Can you remember what your first CD was? And your first player? And how you reacted when you heard it for the very first time? I still own my first CD: I bought Changing Faces: The Best of 10cc and Godley & Creme for £11.99 from WH Smiths in October 1987. My player was a Pioneer PD-X88 that I was buying on the never-never from my mum's Brian Mills mail-order catalogue for £230 (about £50 of that was already interest lol).
My hifi at the time was a £350 Akai stack system bought by my parents for my 16th birthday in 1985. The sound from the Pioneer CD player was like nothing I'd ever heard, especially through headphones (the Akai speakers were lousy tbh). Crisp, clear, and the dead silence between tracks like we'd never heard before. Totally amazing. I was instantly sold.
You?
Can you remember what your first CD was? And your first player? And how you reacted when you heard it for the very first time? I still own my first CD: I bought Changing Faces: The Best of 10cc and Godley & Creme for £11.99 from WH Smiths in October 1987. My player was a Pioneer PD-X88 that I was buying on the never-never from my mum's Brian Mills mail-order catalogue for £230 (about £50 of that was already interest lol).
My hifi at the time was a £350 Akai stack system bought by my parents for my 16th birthday in 1985. The sound from the Pioneer CD player was like nothing I'd ever heard, especially through headphones (the Akai speakers were lousy tbh). Crisp, clear, and the dead silence between tracks like we'd never heard before. Totally amazing. I was instantly sold.
You?