Petty: "The computer was never really designed for music storage". Who cares if the computer wasn't originally DESIGNED for music storage. Who cares if the computer industry is "in complete denial that high end even exists". You ask, "why do you support an industry that says you as audiophiles don't exist". You don't think there are hard drives in recording studios?
Going through the responses, I've noticed that the majority of you have not gone the hard drive route because you don't want to spend the TIME copying your music to a hard drive. That doesn't tell me WHY you think cd players are superior to hard drives. That tells me you are lazy.
Ones and zeros have no memory where they come from, (hard drive or optical disc). What matters is the digital to analog conversion that follows. The cd player is device that has to retreive ones and zeros and then convert them to analog. That's all. A hard drive/dac does the same thing.
Going through the responses, I've noticed that the majority of you have not gone the hard drive route because you don't want to spend the TIME copying your music to a hard drive. That doesn't tell me WHY you think cd players are superior to hard drives. That tells me you are lazy.
Ones and zeros have no memory where they come from, (hard drive or optical disc). What matters is the digital to analog conversion that follows. The cd player is device that has to retreive ones and zeros and then convert them to analog. That's all. A hard drive/dac does the same thing.