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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".
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jylee
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There is no doubt that the computer based music will replace CD in the future. But it won't get a lot of traction until the following problems are addressed.

1. ease of converting existing CD collection to HD without someone sitting on a computer for hours and hours ripping them.
2. crash protection. HD crash is the reality. It's not the matter of if, but matter of when. Relying on the owners to manually backing up one HD to another just doesn't cut it.
3. availability of downloadable music. The tiny selection of available lossless downloadable music doesn't cut it.

When all these issues are addressed, then maybe there is a merit in discussing CD vs HD as transport.
oakleys
78 posts
 
if cd is the comb-over to whatever fashionable hairdo the harddrive is, what does that make my turntable...hair plugs?

if you are happy with your tarddrive set up, be happy. if you are so insecure about your decision...ok, you're right. Your stereo sounds better, you win.

if someone is already enjoying their cdp, assuming their interest is enjoying music and not following trends or collecting new gear, what do they gain from explaining why?

btw, i have thousands of cd and thousands of lps at my ACTual fingertips. very convenient as well.
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mapman
22,182 posts
 
My music server is my modern remote control jukebox that I always wanted.

I just need to add a Wurlitzer logo, some neon lights and chrome trim.

Happy Days!
devilboy OP
1,176 posts
 
Oakleys: Relax. I wasn't out to bash anyone. I WAS SIMPLY ASKING SOMEONE TO EXPLAIN THE BENEFITS OF A CDP.....FOR THE TENTH TIME.

By the way...my friend has the MSB modified ipod with ilink. All his music is in the ipod going to his MSB Platinum Signature 32 bit DAC III Plus (or whatever the hell it's called), and it's some of the best audio I've ever heard. I don't think his ipod will crash anytime soon. If something does happen, all his music is already stored elsewhere.

Wow! Such a heated topic. Going to sit down, push a few buttons a listen to some Chopin, or Debussy, or Miles, or Chet, or maybe all of them.
oakleys
78 posts
 
i was just asking whats the point in asking?

mostly benefit of cdp is to play and enjoy music, assumed from a collection of cds. real simple too see if you have cds and a cdp, its superior to having to buying a harddrive and external dac and etc.

ok, simply explain to me superiority of harddrive and dac to cdp, and tt.

and is mp3 player the faux hawk?

im off to spinning some wax with the incredible guitar of wes montgomery, then some sonny sharrock and maybe some derek bailey.

enjoy!
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