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# How Vinyl & iPods Ganged Up to Kill the Audio CD
- URL: https://www.hypebot.com/how-vinyl-and-ipods-ganged-up-to-kill-the-audio-cd/
- Published: 2012-05-22T10:54:38.000Z
- Updated: 2012-05-22T10:54:38.000Z
- Description: On Music Think Tank, Tom Dennehy posts about the book, Trade-off, by Kevin Maney which states that a truly successful product provides either the richest user experience or the greatest. Continue reading [https://www.hypebot.com/hypebot/2012/05/how-vinyl-and-ipods-ganged-up-to-kill-the-audio-cd.html
- Author: admin
- Tags: Music Think Tank, CD, convenience, Experience, fidelity, IPod, Kevin Maney, Natalie Cheng, product, Tom Dennehy, Trade-off, vinyl, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-01-21 10:49

[![Fidelity Belly (Cropped)](http://hypebot.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451b36c69e20168ebaa7248970c-150wi "Fidelity Belly (Cropped)")](http://hypebot.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451b36c69e20168ebaa7248970c-popup?ref=hypebot.com)

On [Music Think Tank](http://www.musicthinktank.com/blog/how-vinyl-and-ipods-ganged-up-to-kill-the-audio-cd.html?ref=hypebot.com), **Tom Dennehy** posts about the book, Trade-off, by Kevin Maney which states that a truly successful product provides either the richest user experience or the greatest convenience. Less successful products fall into the fidelity belly which is the no-man’s land of consumer experience. In his post, he applies the concept to how vinyl and ipods have caused the decline of the CD. Do you agree?

“Sinking into the fidelity belly is essentially the **fast track to obsolescence**. Staying out of the belly is never assured, because customer expectations for fidelity and convenience constantly evolve.” ([Read On](http://www.musicthinktank.com/blog/how-vinyl-and-ipods-ganged-up-to-kill-the-audio-cd.html?ref=hypebot.com))