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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
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
1,215 posts
 
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.
pettyofficer
462 posts
 
Well there you have it, Anti-Democracy in action! Its going to be his way because Learsfool SAYS it's going to be his way! Are you going to take everyone out that doesn't follow your Formula and shoot them? You and who's Army? So it is said, so shall it be done! Much ado about nothing? With so much Testosterone flying, everyone trying to dictate to everyone else what Format they should be listening to! Everyone thumping their chests! Obviously everyone thinks that this is much ado about everything! Just wait untill you see the Fireworks, WOW! You just don't get that kind of response with much ado about nothing! You don't get this much action on All Star Wrestling! Wait...do I hear a pot boiling over some where? Wait...for....it! Wait...for....it!
corazon
210 posts
 
I agree with Tvads post of 8/11.

Many other posters had some great things to say also; however too many to list or respond to.

There will always be developments in the way that music is brought to us. It is up to each of us to choose the one or ones that work best for us, regardless of others opinions or beliefs.

With each new development it has been said it was the death of the previous method, i.e. vinyl vs cd. But this has not been the case, many different methods of storage and playback exist, and we are all free to choose which ones we like best.
timrhu
2,779 posts
 
Kijanki, thanks for the reply. No my comment concerning poor communicatiion skills was not directed at you. In fact, I have read many of your posts and never would have guessed English is not your first language. Especially since many of your posts are of a technical nature.
As for Pettyofficer, I could have been more diplomatic with my comment but I really thought a direct approach would work better. In his next couple of posts he said he has no point and I see no reason to read any more of his posts/rantings.
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