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CDs are back because streaming made music feel disposable

Streaming’s TOS somehow makes “everything” feel like nothing.

Jason Weisberger
Jul 13, 2026
∙ Paid

CDs are somehow cool again, which means we have reached the part of the streaming era where everyone misses “owning” music.

This video sets up vinyl, CD, and lossless streaming systems side by side, then walks through the hardware and the arguments: turntables, cartridges, tonearms, CD players, DACs, and whether a modern streamer can compete with physica…

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