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The CD player is dead.......

I am still waiting for someone to explain why a cd player is superior to storing music on a hard drive and going to a dac. Probably because you all know it's not.

Every cd player has a dac. I'll repeat that. Every cd player has a dac. So if you can store the ones and zeros on a hard drive and use error correction JUST ONCE and then go to a high end dac, isn't that better than relying on a cd player's "on the fly" jitter correction every time you play a song? Not to mention the convenience of having hundreds of albums at your fingertips via an itouch remote.

If cd player sales drop, then will cd sales drop as well, making less music available to rip to a hard drive?
Maybe, but there's the internet to give us all the selection we've been missing. Has anyone been in a Barnes and Noble or Borders lately? The music section has shown shrinkage worse than George Costanza! This is an obvious sign of things to come.....

People still embracing cd players are the "comb over" equivalent of bald men. They're trying to hold on to something that isn't there and they know will ultimately vanish one day.

I say sell your cd players and embrace the future of things to come. Don't do the digital "comb over".
devilboy
macdadtexas
1,794 posts
 
What is a "CD player"?

I know what digital files are, and of course if I want good sound I listen to vinyl, so what are these "CD's" this player plays???
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knownothing
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Devilboy, the most on-target post of the whole thread. Maybe nobody told you though, LSD is dead... It has been replaced by HD video downloads.
pettyofficer
462 posts
 
I believe that Devilboy was addressing me. Who needs Acid when you get twice the Fireworks from pressing buttons. Three times the bang for the buck, it is not illegal, and it doesn't cost a thing. My point, why press buttons, to gather information on those who are self appointed Sheriffs of what Formats I should be allowed to listen to. Yeah, yeah, nothing has happened to the CD's yet. Nice distraction from what it is that you want to do to the CD Format, now is it! If you are going to dictate to me, I want to know what makes you tick! I am curious what makes you the Emperor with his new clothes. I am simply facinated by Narcissistic Characters so wrapped up in themselves, that they can dictate to everyone else what Formats to listen to. You guys are practically Cartoon Characters. Ernst Stoffel Blofeld, Darth Vader, Ming the Merciless have nothing on you. What are you guys going to do next, come out with an evil death ray that will destroy all CD's on the Planet? From my point of view you all seem more like Butters alter ego, Professor Chaos from South Park. What so amuzes me is that you actually believe that you can destroy all of the CD's on the Planet simply by saying so. You believe in your own Fantasy and your own Rhetoric. When anyone challenges your Fantasy, WOW, fireworks. Hey, when we get rid of our CD's, it will be because we want to. Not because you had anything to do with it! No doubt, in your Fantasy you will be dancing a victory dance. You need to wipe the drool dripping on the floor from your mouth. Santa Claus doesn't exist, neither does the Easter Bunny, and you are NOT going to get rid of all of the CD's on the face of the Planet either! This will be the third time, no doubt, that you will be running home crying for your Mommie! When reality hits, it hurts because the Truth hurts doesn't it! What is my point, no point. I do this because I can and it amuses me! You dream of getting rid of the CD Format, but you can't, and this amuses me to no end! With all of this amusement, who needs a point?
pettyofficer
462 posts
 
If you could get rid of the CD Format, you would have done so by now. It has already been how many years? Come on Fantasy 90%, make me wake up tomorrow to find ALL of my CD's missing. Make them disappear into thin air! I am going to be REALLY disappointed in you if you don't! It will be just as I figured, you Guys will be nothing but a joke! I will go down to the local Store and buy a HUNDRED CD's. I will recite every Title to you over this Forum. I am going to love hearing you guys squeal and squirm in agony! Point? There is no point in torture! It is just fun to do when someone is begging you to do it to them!
learsfool
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For me, the vast majority of this thread is Much Ado About Nothing. I agree with Tvad's original post here - "computer audio" is going to a one-box format, i.e. the music server. This is most certainly the wave of the future, and I for one certainly do not want to hook up a computer in my listening room in the meantime. Especially since probably 80% or more of my listening is on vinyl, anyway.
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