CDP's being dumped for hard drive driven units?

I have replaced the CDP with a Logitech Duet hooked up to an Altman DAC and the sound is very good (very close to my Modwright modified CDP). The convenience of having all the music at my finger tips is incomparable. The key is getting a good DAC with good jitter control if you are going the computer route.

I bought an SACD player last year. No music server for me in the distant future.

The future of hi-rez music is downloads or DVDs with data files. Either way, PC playback is what you will need, and why not? This is not like CD "replacing" LP. It's the same software format, it's just the storage medium and/or distribution method that's different.

Ir recently dawned on me why PC audio is such a no-brainer. Think of this: say you can download a favorite artist's new album or you can purchase that exact same software burned via mass production manufacturing onto a silver disc. At best, the latter is as good as the former.

Dodgealum: strictly speaking, those people who are ripping their collections to hard drive should not be selling or even giving away their CDs. Illegal and unethical, but widespread, I know.

After a few more modes that aren't on the books, you realize that the playback system can be improved by 1/3 in every piece of audio gear.Mechanical vibration plays a huge part in how sound is resolved and recreated in ones sound room. I feel no need to switch to a computer based system, especially when XRCD are my primary vehicle.I know that my sound is amazing in it's own right and a new format will have to evolve through time.

Amen Dodgealum!!! I scored tons of great RVG Blue Note reissues at a used CD store this weekend. I can't walk out of a used CD store without dropping $100, there is just too much coming in now. Keep rippin' those CDs and pray your hard drive doesn't crash or you backup fail. I have a RAID and external backup nightly (lost all the wife's email and family pictures once...I never kept really imporant stuff on the home computer) and I still do not trust it for my only copy of my music. I still haven't found a format I like, all MP3 sound like crap and FLAC doesn't work with Ipods.