Are CD players dead

"This is the future, Hi Rez down loads!!". Echoes of 1985,
"Perfect Sound Forever!!" for CD. We got cheated with
10-12 Bit CD's being sold as 16 Bit due to a Format
Monopoly! All other Formats were being pushed out! Ditto
for Hi Rez Download Monopoly Format. Don't you get it-
Monopolies are really,really,really bad for the Consumer
and Sound Quality! Conversly they are really,really,really
Great for Manufacturing Profits. Unless you own stock in these Companies, you end up being the loser. Don't forget the CD debacle! Less Bang for the Buck really great-NUTS!

there are some very high aound quality 16 bit cds from the following labels, that, i think will easily compete with hi res files.

here are some of the labels:

audio stacatto, glossa, opus 111.

there are also some excellent sounding cds on the harmonia mundi label.

yes the genre is "clasical", but the sound will not disappoint.

I will never understand why Computer Audio Download
enthusiasts insist that all Consumers be forced to put
all of their eggs in one basket-AGAIN! Most of us got
RIPPED (Pun intended) with low quality CD's(1985) as
competing Formats were squeezed out. Some of us actually LEARNED something from the experience-Never bet the Farm (Sound Quality) on a brand new Format Monopoly (Proposed Computer Audio Downloads) in the absence of any alternatives, or competition. Let the Profit go into the Consumers back pocket (Sound Quality) instead of the Manufacturer's multi-billion dollar Bank Account-JUST ONCE-for cryin out loud! Make Computer Audio EARN its keep in
Sound Quality instead of just coast along with no competition! Stop trying to sell us out with Format Monopolies! You end up with the short end as we all do!

I trust Manufacturer's to maintain High Sound Quality
Computer Audio Hi Rez Downloads, as much as I trusted them
to provide true Redbook 16 Bit CD's (10-12 Bit) back in 1985. With Downloads as the new Monopoly Format for all
new Music, Profits will take highest priority in a vacuum of any real competing Format. Sound Quality will be regulated to the lowest common denominator, much as it was
back in 1985. What, Manufacturer's will promise not to do it to us again? Hold them to that by supporting two
competing Formats! Don't blindly trust them again!

My original CD player, sitting over in the other room, is a Magnevox made by Phillips....It is the original FD-1000 or FD-1001. It is a 14big player with 4x oversampling and a DAC per channel. This was the 'reference' machine against which all others were measured for quite a while. The Sony machines were non-starters and had some audible artifacts. My player would compare favorable to any made today, if I could find a laser for it.
Now, the real reason I write is that the first 3 CDs I bought, long ago in the early 80's are still good stuff. A pre-Cream Eric Clapton album, a soundtrack of 2001 Space Odyssey were both hi quality disks. No compression like modern sound wars stuff. The Clapton, especially, sounds like it was recorded not live, but RAW and in someones garage.

I suspect their will always be 'minority' formats. I know one person who still trys to maintain a BETA machine. CD players may join TTs on the endangered list. The only hangup may be PARTS, which ain't parts. I have a perfectly good second-system player sitting out for lack of a laser.