I have been reading a lot of reviewers lately re-discovering CD playback after getting used to streaming DACs and they all say that they're surprised at how much more solid the CD's sound (depending on the quality of CD of course) so no, not dead. Here's a tip- find an old Sony DVD like the DVP-S 7700 on ebay for less than $100 and you'll be amazed at how good it sounds. Trust me.
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Up until just recently I had about 400 CDs that I had been purchasing since the early 80s. Now that I have a streamer and can stream Tidal, I stopped playing my CDs and donated most of them to my local chapter of the American Cancer Society. I LOVE not being limited anymore to just the music I own. Now I have access to most of the music that has been recorded over the past 100 years or so. So for me, yes, CDs are dead and good riddance to them!! |
I modded the S7700 for almost 10 years, so I’m very familiar with it. Only mediocre stock, but less than 1 nsec of jitter after my mods. I sold thousands of this popular mod and the mod actually cost more than the transport. I don’t have the modded Sony anymore because it is not even in the same league as good computer playback from an Off-Ramp 5 or Interchange or reclocking any old transport with my Synchro-Mesh reclocker. These all have jitter in the 8-16psec range at the end of a 4 foot coax cable across 75 ohms. Almost an order of magnitude smaller, and it is clearly audible in the focus and imaging. Jitter is the ONLY thing that matters in a transport, period. There is no other magical fairy dust. You should experience truly low jitter first. Very few audio companies have mastered truly low jitter in their designs. They often quote "intrinsic jitter" numbers, which are nothing more than the jitter specs on the oscillator. A far cry from the actual jitter you will get at the end of a coax cable across the 75 ohm terminator. Here is a jitter plot of a typical transport before and after the Synchro-Mesh: https://www.audiocircle.com/index.php?topic=154408.0 Here is a close-up of the jitter distribution and spectrum: https://www.audiocircle.com/index.php?topic=157348.0 Steve N. Empirical Audio |
Resurrecting an older thread here as I recently read some information relevant to the discussion. Three months ago, John Darko summarized a recent revenue report from Germany's music industry and he noted that while streaming generates 80% of music industry revenues in the US, it's only 56.4% in Germany. (Germany has about 1/4 the US population.) CD sales are 5% of revenues in the US and 28% of those in Germany. According to recent data from the Recording Industry Association of Japan, physical media accounted for 53.3% of recorded music revenues (no statement about cd vs. vinyl %'s.) Bucking the trend in the US and the UK, revenues from all sources of recorded music increased last year in Japan. So, while most US music consumers are ditching physical media, that trend is not as advanced in all countries. As Luxman is debuting a new line of five new disc spinners this year, they seem confident the Japanese and other markets will continue to support cd/sacd formats. |
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