Poll: What is your favourite audio format?

Posted by: Leo F.L. on 20 September 2006

Hi everyone!

I'm taking a poll about audio formats. Please, could you vote for your favourite format for music?

http://forums.audioholics.com/forums/showthread.php?t=23293

You don't need to be a registered member to vote.

Thanks! Winker
Posted on: 21 September 2006 by SteveGa
Current results:

Vinyl 8.28%
Compact Cassette 1.74%
CD 17.21%
HDCD 1.96%
DTS 5.01%
DVD-Audio 22.22%
SACD 40.31%
MP3, WMA, etc. 3.27%
Posted on: 21 September 2006 by Tam
I suspect says quite a lot about the equipment owned by the people on there - I wonder how many people here can take advantage of an SACD?


And anyway, why isn't reel to reel tape an option! [smiley]

regards, Tam
Posted on: 21 September 2006 by SteveGa
I was going to select wax cylinder but... Smile
Posted on: 21 September 2006 by Guido Fawkes
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Originally posted by SteveGa:
I was going to select wax cylinder but... Smile


Sorry that's not for me - Half Man Half Biscuit albums aren't available on wax cylinder and I understand plans to release them on this format have been put on ice.
Posted on: 21 September 2006 by Guido Fawkes
My collection has

60% CD
40& Vinyl

I do have two SACDs, but I try to avoid them. I also have two HMHB live albums on VHS.
Posted on: 21 September 2006 by Tam
Don't mock the way cylinder. I recently heard Bruno Walter's 1938 recording of Mahler 9 (the first ever made or that work), or part of it, and the sound was much finer than many a tape effort I have heard from some years later.

The number of SACDs has jumped in my collection lately (since a number of Donald Runnicles' recordings seem to use that format). Fortunately they play fine as CDs in my 5x, so I'm quite happy.

regards, Tam
Posted on: 21 September 2006 by u5227470736789439
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Originally posted by ROTF:
quote:
Originally posted by SteveGa:
I was going to select wax cylinder but... Smile


Sorry that's not for me - Half Man Half Biscuit albums aren't available on wax cylinder and I understand plans to release them on this format have been put on ice.


Surely storage of ice cylinders would pose real problems... Fredrik
Posted on: 22 September 2006 by Guido Fawkes
quote:
Originally posted by Fredrik_Fiske:
quote:
Originally posted by ROTF:
quote:
Originally posted by SteveGa:
I was going to select wax cylinder but... Smile


Sorry that's not for me - Half Man Half Biscuit albums aren't available on wax cylinder and I understand plans to release them on this format have been put on ice.


Surely storage of ice cylinders would pose real problems... Fredrik


Big Grin
Posted on: 22 September 2006 by sound_dust
90% Vinyl
10% CD

Collection is roughly 50/50, about 500 cd's & 500 LP's, but the listening ratio is much higher in favor of Vinyl. If I have a choice, I will always buy a new album as vinyl.