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The CD player is dead.......

I am still waiting for someone to explain why a cd player is superior to storing music on a hard drive and going to a dac. Probably because you all know it's not.

Every cd player has a dac. I'll repeat that. Every cd player has a dac. So if you can store the ones and zeros on a hard drive and use error correction JUST ONCE and then go to a high end dac, isn't that better than relying on a cd player's "on the fly" jitter correction every time you play a song? Not to mention the convenience of having hundreds of albums at your fingertips via an itouch remote.

If cd player sales drop, then will cd sales drop as well, making less music available to rip to a hard drive?
Maybe, but there's the internet to give us all the selection we've been missing. Has anyone been in a Barnes and Noble or Borders lately? The music section has shown shrinkage worse than George Costanza! This is an obvious sign of things to come.....

People still embracing cd players are the "comb over" equivalent of bald men. They're trying to hold on to something that isn't there and they know will ultimately vanish one day.

I say sell your cd players and embrace the future of things to come. Don't do the digital "comb over".
devilboy
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knownothing
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Devilboy, aside from actually resembling your statement, I have some questions for you. Does your hard drive sound better than your cd player? Does your hard drive sound as good as your cd player? Do you not care about having physical media to hold in your hand or store on your shelf? Do you not worry even a little bit about your hard drive crashing? If your answer is yes to all of these questions then you are a Devil's advocate for cd sacrifice - and your cd player will be deader to you than a jewish son marrying gentile.

To date my answer to all the above is "No." Maybe when 24/96 downloads are varied and common, I will be a convert. Until then, I am still firmly entrenched in comb over land. Please pass the greasy kid stuff, Devilboy.
fafafion
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Devilboy,

Your statement smacks of innoconce,it reminds me of the time of the beggining of Digital era where Vinyl was suppose to be dead.

The "computer' era is still evolving IMO .there are still too many issues that are Unresolved.I say ,hang on to your{good}SaCD/CD player and see how it goes.many problems not solved yet,my friend
devilboy OP
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Knownothing: Yes, my hard drive going to my dac sounds better than my $6,000 cdp ever did. No, I don't care about having physical media in my hand and yes, it's all on the shelf if I need to read somethng. No, I don't worry about hard drive crashing.

Fafafion: What issues EXACTLY are unresolved? What problems EXACTLY, Fafafion, are not solved yet?

I feel like a broken hard drive when I ask, once again, how is a cd player superior to a hard drive based audio system?
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