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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
fafafion
190 posts
 
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
1,176 posts
 
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?
hotmailjbc
571 posts
 
why not use both? i prefer to back up my music on hard drives and cd.s for extra confidence. and i like to make cds for varied listening in my car. do i have to carry a laptop to hear music in my car? i know i can use an ipod but there are times when a cd is just going to work. i still have hair thanks
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davt
500 posts
 
Ok, you say "sell your cd player and embrace the future". Who do we sell it too, wouldn't those people who would purchase the used cd player be morons as well for buying a cd player? I will forward a copy of this thread to a friend who's computer crashed and he can't get his music, or much else. Here is the biggest reason why a CD player is better than a computer and a dac for me. Because I am listening to a cd right now and to get my computer hooked up to a dac etc. I would have to buy a bunch of new equipment to do what I already do. So in my house the CD player is superior, cuz I have one.
honest1
586 posts
 
I would expect hard drives to sound better than a cd player, but haven't gotten around to making the move yet. I would still buy CDs and record them on to the HD, though. I like to have the backup. I wonder about copyright issues when you have to move to a new machine. I've heard of people having problems when they get anew iPod, or change from an iPod to something non-apple. I didn't catch the details but I know I've heard people venting about this. Maybe they just didn't know what they were doing. Could someone chime in and fill me on on the real story about this? I'd like to know.
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