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

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.

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.

Timrhu - Thank you. As for PO, he is overly passionate about format choice but I agree 100% with Tvad - it doesn't have to be antagonistic since formats tend to stay for a long time and are also convertible. I will expire before CDs, for sure.

I will expire before CDs, for sure.
Kijanki

I will expire before CDs, for sure.
Kijanki

I nearly wrote that exact statement a while back. At soome point in the future people will look at cds in a museum and think, "how quaint," but not in my lifetime.

Timrhu, I get accused of not having a point. I just play the game where the rules keep on changing every 10 seconds. I'm supposed to not have a point, I won't argue the point so I will pretend that I don't have a point. Otherwise, we will all be here on this same Thread for the rest of our lives. Of course I am accused of not having a point, best way of preventing me from making my point by tying both hands behind my back. So I have to use my teeth, pretend that I don't have point to get my point across. The point is the absurdity of the rules that I am being forced to play by here. Anyone with any common sense can see what I just described above is absurd in the extreme, but this is what I am being forced to deal with. I still don't understand why anyone who is more interested in convenience in Audio at the sacrifice of sound quality, would waste their time on a Forum concerning Audiophile Sound Quality. Aren't there other Websites concerning the sale of used Convenience Audio as oppossed to the sale of High End Audio? I see used CD Players going for sale here between $3000.00 and $5000.00. Perhaps someone wanting to get into a Music Server, all the while spending their time on this Forum talking down the value of their CD Players. Then they can't figure out why they haven't been able to sell their CD Player for 6 Months. You guys don't really know what you are doing trying to get rid of the CD Format, no more than anyone knew what they were doing getting rid of the LP. Why do we find out later that we are missing some Music when the CD took over. Ditto for whatever takes over the CD. I try to learn from History, I try my best to not repeat the mistakes of the past. We leaped onto the CD bandwagon without even thinking. What is there to make sure that we are not making the same mistake again? Someone who is interested in Convenience as oppossed to Sound Quality making the decision, doesn't fill me with much confidence. There you have it. My statless, nonfactual, misleading diatribe! Feel free to add whatever other adjective you want to describe, just don't you dare tell me its pointless. We have been down this road before. My point is have we actually learned anything from the first time we have been down this road? We all took that same trip down that same road, I thought the point was obvious.