Are CD players dead

CD players are waning heavily in favor of computer audio. CDs themselves will still be around for quite a while until some new higher res music format eventually replaces it (when???).

It will be some time before all music is delivered electronically rather than in some physical format, hard to say when that will happen but eventually it will.

Meanwhile use of computers as the prime source for playing multiple music formats (including CDs ripped to various formats of increasing variable quality) will continue to grow gradually.

If this is the case, Mapman, then you condemn Computer
Audio Download Format to the same exact mediocrate (and
same fate) as CD. Just give it 10 years (same as CD).
Nothing more need to be said if Computer Audio Format is
going to follow in the EXACT same footsteps as CD. You
were perhaps expecting a different inevitable result?
I have a Bridge that I can let you have real cheap.
Competition is the only saving grace for the Consumer, and
Sound Quality! So why do you want to throw away everyone's
ONLY saving grace, and leverage with Sound Quality no less?

Petty,

Yay, you're back!

Get that music server working yet?

I can go to HDtracks and download albums today at higher res than CD if I chose.

What's the problem?

Do you expect some poor schmo in Kazakhstan (Borat say) to have to pay for higher quality recordings than he cares about?

I say let Borat have his lossy mp3s and cheap gear needed to play them. As long as I can have my Lamborghini, I am happy too.

"I have a Bridge that I can let you have real cheap.”

So do I. (Can’t let Petty have a monopoly in the bridge market) :-)

Gonna hold off on that Media Player (J.R. River Media Center Vers. 12....99). Ditto on the Sampling Rate of the
week from HD Tracks (A new DAC every week-Really?). Your
Download Format is dizzolving into ambiguity due to endless
revisions. Like buying a SACD Player while the Format is still in development (hope it is still compatible). People have no idea what it is they are buying with the all fluid endless revision that is the liquid Non-Format of Computer Audio Downloads. You haven't got a Real Format yet-making it extremely premature to get rid of current CD Format.