The Rapid Rise (& Fall) of the CD

There are several drawbacks with streaming.

1. Historical and documentary information is generally unavailable on the recordings/artists.

2.1/3 or more of my 78s, LPs and CDs will never be streamed, especially ethnic music. Out of 61,100 LPs/78s/CDs/R2R

3. Streamed material can be added and deleted so that it’s here today and gone tomorrow.

4. Quality of the source material.

Actually, I prefer listening to solid state types of digital reproduction, flashdrives for instance perfect transfers from mastertapes/digital source material.  I have saved 100s of my favorite and rare CDs to solid state.  It's also transportable with ease.

@nonoise When you run across those annoying, "you’ve got to stream" posts, stop reading and post about the benefits of how you prefer to listen to music.

@tomcy6 I did, unless you meant for me to start a thread on how I prefer to listen to music. The same can be said for those who do what I mentioned when the shoe is on the other foot. Happens all the time and probably will not change. 

I'm not worked up or upset, if that is what you're getting at. Being a contrarian on something so simple a matter as to which means of playback one prefers to use and why, is not grounds for acrimony. To say any more would be to rehash everything I've already said. 

It seems that being a mite esoteric and matter of fact was misinterpreted as some kind of attack when it was just a rebuttal.

All the best,
Nonoise

@nonoise 👍

The great demise of the CD! So why did  WADAX's bother to incorporate CD/SCAD playback, along with streaming,  in its new $40K Studio Player ?  Why are there other highend CD , or CD/SACD players - e.g. Soulnote, Goldnote, Neodio, Metronome, Accustic Arts, Canor,just to name a few?