Ruminations On CD Players

As far as supporting artists, one can still stream and continue to buy physical media. To @soix point, even if one’s been collecting physical media; there is so much music to explore out there. Those opposed to streaming are simply not keeping an open mind or content with repeated playback their music collection.

@knock1 

I second the remark about why certain individuals here that enjoy streaming always feel compelled to tell people inquiring about CD players to junk them .  
  It reminds me of the digital vs. analog debate, with the fanatics lined up on both sides., but here we have digital vs digital.  The analog lovers aren’t immune from this either.  Check out the ferocity of the direct vs belt drive turntables. 
   I suppose there could be worse things than audio fanaticism.  We could be screaming at each other that there is only one true religion, and murdering those that don’t share our belief.   Perhaps Audio Fanaticism is an outlet for this kind of aggression, much the way that sports channels aggression into less dangerous areas.  Whatever.

  In truth we live in a time where there are many ways to achieve excellent sound.  Analog, CD replay, streaming.  Even Internet Radio and Bluetooth have improved to a point where they probably sound better than what most of us had back in the day.  There are differences between them, enough to want to have preferences between technologiies.  It’s interesting how small differences sometimes yield the loudest controversy 

@secretguy Well, you’re wrong and I do love music as does everyone else here (most of whom stream BTW), but I don’t control how the music industry operates.  So I guess this means you’re also against the used CD market because the artist gets zilch from those sales.  If they wanna up the streaming subscription price to pay artists better I’m ok with that.  What I do know is the toothpaste ain’t going back in the tube and streaming is here to stay, and hopefully they’ll work it out so it’s more fair and everyone wins.  Further, choosing to not stream music will not change a thing, and you’ll just be missing out on discovering worlds of awesome music out there.  To each his own.