Comments by "Mikko Rantalainen" (@MikkoRantalainen) on "The Rapid Start (u0026 End) of the CD" video.

@RobertQuant I predict CD players are soon going to get really expensive because the production runs are going to get smaller and smaller.
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CD is not yet dead but it's definitely dying. Just google for "total cd album sales in the world graph" and look at any of the image results. It's easy to see that the sales peaked around 2000–2005 (depending on country) and it has been downhill ever since. There's no need to get a CD because you can simply purchase a copy in FLAC format to have exact same audio and you can have the cover art in digital files with much higher fidelity than any printed album ever had (CD size or LP size).
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N7TWL I think CDs would still have value but I'm ready to declare CDs dead after looking at sales over last decade. Commerial CD production is going to die, not matter what a very small minority that still collects CDs wants to think. If you can get digital copy of the uncompressed audio and digital copy of the cover art, physical CD can provide zero extra value.
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If you want to hear the original audio, nobody thinks that LP is better. However, if you like the sound of distortion that LP player always causes, then you might like that distortion effect being applied to all music you listen.
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