# When did the average person first hear about CDs?

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**Created:** [March 16, 2017, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-the-average-person-first-hear-about-cds/782285 "2017-03-16T03:24:41Z")\
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**Post date:** [March 23, 2017, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-the-average-person-first-hear-about-cds/782285/101 "2017-03-23T14:02:59Z")

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Not an audiophile by any means and no idea when I first “heard” of them but I bought my first player in the fall of 1984.

My friend was/is an audiophile and I was prob influenced by him though.

I’m curious and am going to pull my LPs out to determine when I bought my last album. I doubt I bought many after that point. In fact, if I did it was surely used (from Poobah’s in Pasadena) so I prob won’t be able to tell.

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