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    Darko’s Holiday Gift Guide 2024

    Can we please stop pretending that music isn’t free?

    No, vinyl sales are NOT 33% down in the USA

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    • Exposure releases the ‘no-nonsense’ 3510 CD player

    • Darko’s ‘Best of 2023’

    • Global feedback: CD or vinyl (or are you just streaming)?

    • No, vinyl is not outselling CDs in Germany or the UK (or the USA…yet)

    • 15 reasons why I still buy CDs (as a short film)

    • A short film about the Marantz CD60 (& more)

    • CD sales are on the up again in the USA

    • A short film about CD & vinyl shopping in Lisbon

    • Letters to the editor – Weeks #16 & #17, 2021

    • 10 reasons why I still buy CDs

    • Podcast #23: Physical formats

    • A short film about CD ripping & playback with AURALiC

    • CDs outsold vinyl 5 to1 in the UK in 2019

    • Reports of the CD’s death are greatly exaggerated

    • Letters to the editor: AXPONA 2019, CDs & electronic music

    • A short film about CD playback w/ Hegel, PS Audio & Pro-Ject

    • A short film about the Innuos ZEN MK3

    • RIAA: downloads fell faster than physical in 2017

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