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When I have seen people listing their systems lately

I have noticed a lot of people using conventional CD players and SACD players. I remember being at an Audiophile club meeting a couple of years ago and the owner of the store claiming conventional CD players were dead and obsolete.


Are conventional players gaining in popularity nowadays or are they just stalling till digital becomes more standardized.


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+1 mapman and papermill. I buy CDs, rip 'em to my MVault, then use the CDs in my car.  Four basic reasons:
  1. Convenience, which to me means a lot.  No lost or mis-filed CDs.
  2. No need to keep buying new disc players.  High quality one's ain't cheap and the availability of replacement drives is not assured. 
  3. MVault is totally upgradable in terms of hardware and software, expandable storage and auto-duplicates the files w RAID storage.  It's not a proprietary box like the Olive or Aurender or Antipodes. We all know what happened w Olive. 
  4. I've duplicated many of my flac files onto micro SD cards to play on my A&K portable when I travel. 
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" from the hoods in the hood
to the shiny white kids
boring"

Joni Mitchell

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mapman
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Swamp I use Plex app for remote play.  It can access my server at home or download local copies of files  though I have not leveraged that feature yet.   Also creates playlists of similar tracks like Pandora or of music of a particular mood with dozens of moods to choose from.  Plus artist bios and links to album reviews on all music.com. 
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Mapman I agree and do same..love the server when it works ( NAIM)..
keep the Cd as a third backup after the RAID
my ten year old mac Cd with a killer cable to same dac is not even close to the server RIP in WAV...
but to be fair the server is 2 X the Cdvplayer €

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I keep all my CDs both for archiving as well and on display.  Stored CDs on otherwise flat walls are good  for room acoustics to-boot. 
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