What will replace cds

Rather than suffer with bad sound, why not enjoy your CDs with some headphones? You can get a CD player and put it on your nightstand with a small headphone amplifier. You could also get a CD player or changer and use an adapter cable to connect the RCA outputs to the miniplug input on a high-quality portable speaker like a Soundcore Flare. That will sound much better than what you are using now, too.

Previous article. CD players also used to be standard equipment in most cars — just as the cassette had been a decade earlier. But now, many new cars no longer have CD players. Over the years, CD sections in stores have been shrinking as less and less people buy CDs. With the rise of smart phones that can hold thousands of songs, CDs have gone the way of audio cassettes and 8-tracks and have become obsolete.

Vinyl is in a resurgence, of course, with records outselling CDs for the first time in almost three decades. CDs, on the other hand, have been on the decline. Their sales have dropped by 95 percent since the peak days of CDs , according to a new report , and are currently at their lowest level since To say CDs have lost their cool factor is a little bit of understatement. One of the great myths in the audio world is that vinyl sounds better than CDs.

The second is for use in vehicles. The music CD is essentially dead. The only thing keeping it alive is the lack of a suitable replacement. Meanwhile portable. The price for basic USB jump drives has plummeted in the last few years while the technology has catapulted forward. While they have been used as a means for data transport and exchange very little attention has been focused on using them for music why not for video as well?

If you ever watched Babylon 5 you might recall their use of data crystals for video or music — jump drives may not be as cool looking but they are effectively just as efficient. Preparing for a road trip? Grab one of your jump drives, toss the music on it that you want or take an assortment of super cheap mini-jump disks that act like a store bought music CD does now and simply plug and play. Want to buy a hard copy of a new album?

Hit up your local Best Buy and purchase their latest jump drive.