Are CD players dead

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.

on my Bryston player it tells you Exactly what rez you are getting so If I buy something it will be as described, also this is a Big point, no matter how good your error correction is it is still being player as as with tons of
noise ,platter wobble and switching going on inside it .I burned all my cds to a seperate usb drive and the program checks
every song bit for bit before it is approved once done you have a superb Hirez Flac file or whatever hirez format you choose .Also I never have to clear a cd or pick one up my Ipad Mpad program shows all the Allbum art. The only time I need to rip a cd is when it is not yet available and online
at Amazon I can buy like new cds for a 1/3rd used and once ripped which takes maybe 2 minutes it is permanent .I back up the cds to the main drive file ,and now I am even running a 256 gig
Solid state for the best storage out there .This is the future I tried going back ,to using a cd player it is like going back to the stone age, 600 + cds at my command
and sounds far better , and I have had several Hiend cd
systems - transport and dac and everyone that comes over agrees , Don't knock it until you try it .

Please sell me your obsolete vinyl, cd's and hi-end CDP's/TT's's at a very good price since they are inferior and will be in a landfill soon :) I really don't mind having to get up and change LP's or discs.