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CD no more produced?

Except dictated shops, the CD's are stopped selling on major shopping malls.
Due to unavailability of CD started looking  at streaming, finally selected Tidal, but I am not satisfied, Using Teac DAC, Spec RSA717Ex integrated amp paired with Dali speakers

And also downloaded few albums through paid service for Hiresaudio and  burned to CD, the quality of sound is not comparable with Music company produced CD's.
Have Music company's have stopped producing CD? 


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lowrider57
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@n80, OK Ebay makes more sense. I agree with you on all points.

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@n80, good plan. I've built up a  good Redbook playback. May I suggest looking at Discogs for the best quality used CD's. There is reference material relating to date and country of pressing, record label, original issues, early pressings, remasters.

You never know what version you'll get with Amazon venders.

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Question for you Tidal streaming guys.... if old CDs had less compression and the new copies have been heavily compressed, can you pick the release and know you are get one with some DR left on it?

In the rock genre, Tidal has a deep catalogue but most of it is the remastered versions of albums/songs.

Deezer has a very good rock selection and offers the original flat digital transfers (same as early CDs) in addition to the remasters.
The albums are clearly marked as remastered, the originals have their date of release. And it's a pleasure to hear music that doesn't suffer from high compression. Although, not all        recordings from those days are of the highest quailty.


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