Are CD players dead


I went to an audiophile meeting today and the owner of the store said Cd's and cd players are dead. He said you need to start learning about computer audio or you will be left behind. Is what he is saying true?
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PO: Microdots, gel tabs, paper, shrooms, mescaline, nitrous, california orange, panama red perhaps? Whatever it is you have, let me know where and when we can get together to discuss this further.....fascinating.
You just don't get it. I have no problem with someone who disagrees with me. Quite the contrary in fact. I WELCOME a difference of opinion, but take a look a some of the endless rants PO has made and tell me he is not on something.
Not on something, Devilboy, maybe onto something. I still
listen to Computer Audio, but I am painfully aware that at
1/10th the tasking I could be listening to a CD. Computer
Audio is NOT convenient, and certainly NOT as user freindly as CD. Does the Format serve me, or do I serve the Format. I just prefer the Format serve me. I also prefer fewer steps between me and my enjoyment of Music.
Hell, leave the Computer learning to Bill Gates. He is in to that sort of thing, I am into listening to Music instead! Why force me to have to earn the priveledge of
listening to Music, by forcing me to have to learn Computer
Audio. For a beginner, it would still take 3 months to really learn it. It takes 5 seconds to pop in a CD. Common sense, path of least resistance, and working smarter not
harder.
I can't believe I'm saying this, but I agree with you PO. Popping in a cd is obviously easier than setting up a server/dac system. You have to admit thought, things sure look like they will go the computer/dac route....right?