As a portable medium, the CD had something over vinyl, but since the available additional headroom was quickly used up, it fatigues the senses. Compared to the USB Flash Drive, SD card or Micro SD card, the CD is now the bulky antiquated storage medium. The local record store here never went out of business and still sells Vinyl to an audience that feels the same fatigue I do when listening to digital max. headroom mastered perfection. So we put up with the snap, crackle, pops.