Are CD players dead

No, but I wish this question would die. It's been asked in these forums a number of times before, and it's getting to be a bore.

It reminds me of a salesman at Best Buy telling an older couple (a few years back) that their analogue TV is obsolete and they had to buy a new one because the analogue signal was being phased out.

Whatever they can use to scare/control you they will.

Did the store owner at your meeting sell computers?

Just my paraniod mind at work, don't mind me...

Computer audio is not ready for the majority of people yet. Servers and related software are either a little clunky or too expensive and music download selection is sparse.

There are people who enjoy trying to figure out why they can't get their computer to work properly. I'm not one of them though.

If you want to load your cds onto a server, and some people think that you should, you can do that but there's no reason you can't keep playing them on a player.

Finally, there are billions of cds in the US alone(approximately 235 million sold just last year). Much of that music will not be pressed onto vinyl or offered as downloads. I think people will buy cds for some time to come, especially if they get real cheap.

At first I thought,"How many times will this question come up?" But it was the last time around that got me thinking and trying and now I'm convinced that although CDs are not dead, they are an endangered species.

I'm still keeping my CDP and will probably end up with an Olive music server and bypass my iMac entirely but that will be some time to come. Having tasted better I can't go back.

I imagine a hybrid CDP that can rip/store as well as play will be the next step to ween the late bloomers amongst us. Even if you can't afford to dive into computer audio, read up as much as you can to stay ahead of the curve: technology proceeds at an alarming rate.

Nope...I prefer memory readers vs.. cd transports.

I have better things to do than tranfer/rip 3000 CD's to a hardrive..., I know there are alot of people who think the same way. YMMV