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
Hold on Newbee, It's going to be a bumpy ride! Product Hell is waiting for the Compact Disk, Timrhu? No doubt Product Hell is still waiting for the LP! Waiting, and waiting, and waiting, and waiting, and waiting, and will STILL continue waiting. Gee, what happened to your Evil Plot to take over the World by getting rid of the LP, NUMBER ONE? You DO KNOW the price of failure, DON'T YOU?
You claim you will do so much better with the CD? Why should we let you off of the hook, when you certainly wouldn't let anyone else off of the hook, NUMBER ONE? Are you stroking a White Cat verrry slowly as you type that keyboard? Isn't it time that your Organization select a NEW NUMBER ONE? You guys are going to self distruct on your own over your obsessive fustration with the CD! I really honestly don't think that the CD is an EMMINENT, CLEAR AND PRESENT DANGER to Downloading. What about the Guy who wants both? Are you going to take him, and his whole family, out and shoot them because he posseses a CD? Are you gonna do a KAIZER SUZE on him. Are you guys pretending to be the USUAL SUSPECTS, the MP3 crowd that can't SHOOT straight on Sound Quality? Look, create your own Websight of CONVENIENT STEREO, in opposition to AUDIOPHILE STEREO, more power to you! Stop being the Black Cockroach crawling across the White Rug of Audiophile Stereo, disillutioning yourself that no-one is going to notice you, you are a joke! Oh, yeah, I'm done with this guy too! Still awaiting for the National Guard, they should be a little more of a challenge!
Going to take a couple Zanies and smoke the peace pipe with my neighbors daughter and explain how resonance control is beneficial within the hemisphere and makes for better coupling. Probably be playing a cd in the round. Tom
What do you know, you guys ARE serious! Tanks are rolling across my lawn as I speak. Look at that! My Taxpaying Dollars hard at work coming to arrest me, and confiscate my CD's as well! Last Word, Gotta Run! These Guys are S-E-R-I-O-U-S!!!
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Scotty has transported po to Whackaloon, a planet for the digitally insane located in the Knucklehead Galaxy.

Ahead warp factor 5 Mr. Sulu.....