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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
windowsx
25 posts
 
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.
windowsx
25 posts
 
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 ;)
pettyofficer
462 posts
 
Swampwalker-based on your premise, not mine, its NOT O.K. for Bill to bait a chained bear, but bit IS O.K. for you? Is there ANYONE in this Forum that practices what they preach? How do you expect me to take your Moral Veracity seriously even if, as you say I am "off my Meds"? What Drug could I possibly take that would make me oblivious to your contradiction? What Drug could you possibly be on to think that I would overlook your contradiction? What does it say about you Swampwalker when someone, "Off their Meds", can still see through you? It's not me pal, its you being the Emperor and his new clothes. Did you really expect that not a single person in the crowd would point at Swampwalker, and scream, "Look, he's not wearing any clothes"! Do you really dilude yourself into believing that you are that omnipitent? I am pretty certain that you are flesh and blood, and not a member of the Q Continium!
What do you guys do all day, stare in a mirror all day repeating to yourself, "ARE YOU TALKING TO ME, ARE YOU TALKING TO ME"? I need Drugs, to stop laughing so hard that I might rupture something, at the sight of this spectacle. Please, get help for this dilusional Narcissism. You are NOT a James Bond Super Evil Villain who is going to take over the entire World by destroying ALL of the CD's in it! That is just Fantasy Crap, maybe your Mommie can explain it to you if I can't! We have had the second explosion of KRAKATOA, shall we continue building up pressure under MOUNT SAINT HELENS for the second time? You are worried about Trainwrecks, put your clothes on first before I can take you seriously. Never mind, that Train has already left the Station!
pettyofficer
462 posts
 
And I am done with this Guy! Next Keystone Cop/Professor Chaos/General Disarray/Ernst Stoffel Blofeld/Richard Nixon/Taxi Driver/Member of the Q-continium/full time Employee of the Computer Industry, step right up! Yeah, yeah, you are NOT a crook. Shut the Hell up Ernst, before I start looking for someone with a license to kill! Gotta take you out before you take out the CD's you narcisistic Freak! They just keep on comming! Who are you going to send next, the National Guard?
learsfool
1,215 posts
 
Pettyoffficer - I merely stated my opinion. Not trying to start any kind of "anti-democracy." If you knew me, you would realize how far off base your comments are about me, especially the militaristic ones. You are certainly entitled to your opinion - I was not attacking you or your opinion in any way. Peace!
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