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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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mitch4t
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I like to read the liner notes too, that's why I keep my lp's. If I antagonized anyone, it was not my intent. Just making an observation. Remember, I'm chuckling at myself too!
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plutos
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Devilboy,
Don`t forget that you still need to use some transport to load and rip your CD-s in to your hard drive. This all involves additional jitter and other problems. What transport you use to load your music in to HD? Cheap plastic PC, MAC or some state of the art Esoteric transport?
pettyofficer
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Egads! It's like telling the Borg, "thanks, but no-thanks, I prefer keeping my CD's if you don't mind"! Just before the implants ravage your body. There is nothing like being absorbed, and losing all sense of individuality. All of this while in the background someone prattles on about PC's,MAC'S, and Transports. Glorious oblivion to any humanity or mercy. Listening to automaton's on the way to becoming one yourself. Mindless, Spiritualess, absence any heart or emotion. Apparently the War between Man and Machine was fought decades ago, and we lost. The Enemy has met and defeated us, and now we are slowly being converted into them! We are ending up with wires and circuits where our Hearts and Minds should be. Sad!
mlsstl
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PO, you seem dead stuck on your 90%. When shown wrong with a referenced source, you declare numbers "irrelevant." Then you call everything else "propaganda" and then you're back to your "90%." Nice circle.

I see you love a good conspiracy theory and you've settled on yours, damn the facts. "They" are just out to get you!

I can see you're having a grand time wallowing in your misery, so enjoy! (And go buy a few CDs while you still can.)
mlsstl
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Plutos: "Don`t forget that you still need to use some transport to load and rip your CD-s in to your hard drive. This all involves additional jitter and other problems."
Jitter only occurs during the actual decoding step, when the digital is transferred to analog. Until then, it is just another data file and you can move it around all you want. (It was certainly transferred multiple times on hard drives at the studio and production plant prior to becoming a CD.)

The only issue with a poor drive would be a read error, but that is not jitter. Read errors on CD are mainly an issue only if the CD is damaged or defective. Read errors on a disc in good condition are fairly rare (or no computer program would ever install and run.)

Most computer drives will read a disc multiple times to get rid of errors. Many CD players differ from computers in they only get one shot to read a disc correctly since the data is delivered in real time.
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