Are you still playing CDs after, comp based syst?


I own 2 DACs
Hegel hd11
P S audio PWD,
Macbook pro
Sometimes I have the urge to spin a CD, no idea if this mostly psichological?
I dont currently own any cdp, wondering if I could get a value/performance one, I also play vinyls a lot, but I do have many cds.

Rest of my system.
Luxman 550 AII
Harberth comp 7 ES3

My budget for a cdp around 1000 new or used?

Thanks
mountainsong
Akg - The compressed formats are not as good as .wav for sure, however AIFF comes pretty close to .wav on a Mac, and retains all of the tags and album art.

Steve N.
Empirical Audio
We are just now discovering all of these warts with Computer Audio? Now that we have been trying to kill off
the CD Market with "Soon all New Music will only be
available as Music Downloads"! I have been desperately
promoting the use of both Formats so long as Computer
Audio remains an unfinished Format- it is indeed that!
Now we are caught between the loss of one Format, and
the premature underdevelopment of its replacement Format.
Nice job cutting off your nose to spite your face for the sake of convenience (At the cost of everything else!).
No need to gloat.

There is no vindication here, just another aspect to be considered.

All things in good time.

All the best,
Nonoise
Not gloating! Vindication, never expected it- don't now!
I just wanted the freedom to play both Formats, and there
is alot less risk that way. In that respect do we now
plan on saving the CD Format- I didn't think so! Obviously,
this doesn't help me; therefore, I have nothing to gloat/
be vindicated about. I am in the same sorry lifeboat
(Without a Format Paddle) as everyone else! "Well Olie,
another fine mess you have gotten us into"! No Gloat,
no Vind- just rolling around with the egg on my face
(Same a everyone else). Can we clean the mess up now?