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Opting for no CDP -- only to regret it?

Anyone else find that this happened? I've got all my CDs on a hard drive in a lossless format, and was happily accessing it all via my Squeezebox Touch playing through an outboard DAC. At other times, I was spinning vinyl records, grooving to the tunes the old-fashioned way. Sold one CDP. Then another. Finally, my third and last. Which is just fine, most of the time.
Except when I get a new CD and just want to listen to it. Having to rip it first sometimes feels like so much damn fuss. Or when I feel I'm not exactly getting all I might from some of my favorite HDCDs. Wish then I could just pop one of Neil Young's Archives discs into an appropriate player.
Anyone else venture down the road without a CD player only to turn back and get one again? Anyone else have occasional regrets but just decided to accept the new, CDP-free world?
Regards,
-- Howard
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cruz123
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Except when I get a new CD and just want to listen to it. Having to rip it first sometimes feels like so much damn fuss.

My CD player's transport has been malfunctioning for about a year and I haven't missed it. I still play music via the players DAC, but I haven't missed spinning discs.

In fact, I hardly even buy CD's anymore. I've ripped my whole collection to hard drive, so its at my fingertips when I need it. When I want to listen to new music, I just access the CD via Rhapsody or MOG and save it to my favorites and I can listen to it anytime I want - for free but for the monthly fee, which is less than the cost of a single CD. As long as I have access to the music via MOG or Rhapsody, I don't really seen the need to "own" most music anymore. I'm happy to just "borrow" it via these various streaming services.
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ml8764ag
502 posts
 
NO regrets, NONE.

Respectfully: Which is more fuss...burning a new one to your library...or constantly searching through hundreds of cds for a specific cd or a song when the mood strikes you?

I'm the opposite, I'll NEVER EVER go back to a CDP. And believe me I'm a "set in my ways" type of person, who resisted 'digital music.'

I've achieved much better sound with a lossless source a Vlink and a decent stand-alone DAC that I ever did with stand alone CD players of comparable or even greater value.

If I want to hear something immediatey, without burning to library...I have that option too.

I have yet to think of a single drawback... there's nothing nostalgic to me about cold plastic media.
kbarkamian
647 posts
 
I've gone to an Apple TV Gen 1. Thought I would miss having a CDP, so I kept my XBox (mainly used as a DVD player) in the system. Haven't used it as a transport yet. It's been about 2 1/2 years.

I do understand the itch to hear that new CD ASAP. I don't and could never wait to get home - they always play in the car on the way!
kbarkamian
647 posts
 
Forgot to add...

I don't own any SACDs, HDCDs, etc.
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jon2020
986 posts
 
Why not have both? Olive and Naim offer players with both a transport for a quick play and an internal hard drive to rip your CD to. So far, pretty good reviews in the audio press. There is also the new Memory Player MP64 from Nova Physics which uses flash memory for playback.
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