Why CD players will never be dead

I may be the odd one out here. I like buying CDs. I like playing CDs on CD players. I like one box CD players. I like my CD players (Rega Apollo, Musical Fidelity CD Pre 24). It's pretty simple for me.

I have absolutely no interest in setting up and using a server for music. I work in technology, so I understand the science.

In addition, I have enough CDs that if I never purchased another CD, I would have enough listening material for the rest of my listening days. These days, my most anticipated CD purchases are the re-mastered classics. I use the net to discover new music and then buy the CD.

I have had an iPod since they were first introduced 8 or 9 years ago. I am at best indifferent and only use it when travelling, as I don't like loading it up. Not that it is hard, I just don't care for doing it. I own an iMac, so it's not a hardware thing.

Music is important to me. I have a playback medium that works for me and that's fine by me. There will always be CD players ... maybe not as many, but there will be some around.

Enough already with the CD is dead, CD is not dead, yada, yada, yada. It's boring already. It sounds too much like the SACD is dead crap.

Rich

Rar1,
You are not the only one about the server. I am in the same boat. Though I can play with computer registry and stuff like that, I love to spin the good old CD. Future might force us to take up a server, but for now we are good :-)

I a not with Steve on this one. My computer audio front end and others I have heard do not sound as good as a great CD/SACD player in my experience. Not yet anyway. I love the convenience however! I love Spotify and Pandora etc...

The battery operated DAC section in my modified Sony CD player (TRL) still sounds better than the Apple/$1000 dac options I have tried.Perhaps I need to spend more on the DAC to compete with my CD player? Don't know. I expect at some point I will like the sound of computer audio better, but this far no.

Grannyring,

Funny you should mention TRL in this thread. I have owned one of their modded Sony players for several years now. It has beat up some pretty expensive seedee players in this time.

I just put together a modest system of SB Touch and MHDT Havana DAC. I have to concede that this does indeed sound better than my cdp. The TRL will be for sale in the near future. This is the best digital sound I have heard in my system.

Shakey

Shakeydeal, his mods vary and mine is the latest with the battery power supply and all (modified last year). Tell me about yours? Love to know how (what program) you use to rip CD's? I have not had as much luck as you getting computer audio to sound as good. I also use the Squeezebox Touch and a good Bel Canto DAC? No way it sounds as good. I stream wireless to the SB Touch however.

This is the issue I have with computer based audio. So many ways to cobble out the final sound that perhaps I could be doing SOMETHING better? That something is confusing and a royal pain to me....