75% of music sold in Japan are on CD and are still popular in other Euro countries. New CDP's are still being released. The latest is from Gryphon. Good news for me and others who still buy CD's. The prices continue to fall and many companies continue to release new SACD's. RE sound quality. I think the edge still goes to CD's but server / dac tech continues to improve. Maybe soon. |
I look at it this way a format is dying when you can't keep the given player for that format serviced. Vinyl, I can get my 30 y.o. turntable serviced my cd player not so much. With streaming I play the dac until it dies and by then something better and cheaper will be out. I'm not into the best format sound wise just content wise |
I’m from the stone age and i just can’t say i could turn away from having a format i can physically hold. I also like simplicity. No need to dive deeper in to that. Being a relative audio nerd, i see a downside with the technically that seem to make things (not obsolete) almost outdated, or close to, very fast. I have a hard time telling myself i invest in something that is a safe buy. |
I must say I am still stuck on the ARC Ref CD9 with quad dacs, two per channel as the best I've heard. Leaves all my previous Esoteric gear behind including cdp and clocks etc. And running my streamer through this unit via coaxial also uplifts my digital stream significantly. Now I need to get this system reassembled one day soon... |
You must have had ancient Esoteric players. ARC players cant compete with the TOTL Esoterics’s or Luxman for that matter. Ive had em all.
Compatibility with 32-bit/384kHz PCM files and multiple-speed DSD is pretty standard at anything above budget level. The Audio Research CD9SE version inputs are limited to 24-bit/192kHz at best, while DSD isn’t even on the menu. |
