>Don't tell tell any of my CD's that! I have quite a few oldies - first >generation pressings from the mid-1980s - and they work just as well >today as they did when pressed. To add to that, my CD player is also a >old type (remember the Index feature on CDs? I've only run across two CDs

I've got several CD's that uses the Index feature, but they're all Bach CD's. (OK, one of them is Wendy Carlos playing, but that counts, right?) For old-music-CD's, who here remembers the "Preemphasis" bit? I've got a player that indicates that status on the display, though the only CD I have that uses it is a special test disk.