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
Weekend at Bernies, is going to have to become Weekend at Audiofeils. I bet that he would still get layed more than this group. Not tonight Hon, I have to spend a few hours Downloading Music. Aren't you guys the life of the party, congeniality gentlemen all!
aaannd.........\\!!!B-O-O-M!!!//....KRAKATOA does it again!
BURN! BABY! BURN! OOOOOHHHH! AAAAAAHHHH! WOW! Way bigger than I ever expected! Gee, if only Audiofeil were here to see it! Time is up Gentlemen, the Debate is OVER! It has to end sometime, one Audiofeil in this World is enough!
YOU ONLY LIVE TWICE, or if your Audiofeil maybe none at all! See you in the next Lifetime!
I was trying to avoid this one, but just like the train wreck that it is, I couldn't control myself.

Bill- its not nice to bait a chained bear, if he got loose he might knock you into a coMa.

PO- off your meds again?

Peace.

Spock out
Gentleman, I have Esoteric P-05 in serious > $50k system. With my utmost effort for spending on music server project costing higher than used price of P-05 itself (Let alone Mykerinos where you can get used P-05 from its price), I have to admit that it still can't outperform P-05. It sounds really good and pretty close to P-05 but I still can't make it better even with linear PSU built on separated 3x$2k toroidal for clock/mb/interface with all possible modifications for best sound.

But as we can see that Vinyl still outperforms CD Player in some hiend systems. I won't be surprised if someone use uPNP based playback like Linn or Mac Mini with shitty onboard USB/FW with some DAC and say it's better than CD Player.
Not to mention Esoteric P-03 and P-01vu (and some EMM Labs/DCS models which I respect) with Rubidium clock. I doubt if there's such fool who auditioned any of these with their lovely music server and still claim music server is better ;)