The CD player is dead.......


I am still waiting for someone to explain why a cd player is superior to storing music on a hard drive and going to a dac. Probably because you all know it's not.

Every cd player has a dac. I'll repeat that. Every cd player has a dac. So if you can store the ones and zeros on a hard drive and use error correction JUST ONCE and then go to a high end dac, isn't that better than relying on a cd player's "on the fly" jitter correction every time you play a song? Not to mention the convenience of having hundreds of albums at your fingertips via an itouch remote.

If cd player sales drop, then will cd sales drop as well, making less music available to rip to a hard drive?
Maybe, but there's the internet to give us all the selection we've been missing. Has anyone been in a Barnes and Noble or Borders lately? The music section has shown shrinkage worse than George Costanza! This is an obvious sign of things to come.....

People still embracing cd players are the "comb over" equivalent of bald men. They're trying to hold on to something that isn't there and they know will ultimately vanish one day.

I say sell your cd players and embrace the future of things to come. Don't do the digital "comb over".
devilboy
Pettyofficer wrote: "The Computer was NEVER REALLY DESIGNED for Music Storage"
Hmmm, wonder what all of those recording studios that make our music are doing for DAW recording equipment...

;-)
Petty: "The computer was never really designed for music storage". Who cares if the computer wasn't originally DESIGNED for music storage. Who cares if the computer industry is "in complete denial that high end even exists". You ask, "why do you support an industry that says you as audiophiles don't exist". You don't think there are hard drives in recording studios?

Going through the responses, I've noticed that the majority of you have not gone the hard drive route because you don't want to spend the TIME copying your music to a hard drive. That doesn't tell me WHY you think cd players are superior to hard drives. That tells me you are lazy.

Ones and zeros have no memory where they come from, (hard drive or optical disc). What matters is the digital to analog conversion that follows. The cd player is device that has to retreive ones and zeros and then convert them to analog. That's all. A hard drive/dac does the same thing.
Going through the responses, I've noticed that the majority of you have not gone the hard drive route because you don't want to spend the TIME copying your music to a hard drive. That doesn't tell me WHY you think cd players are superior to hard drives. That tells me you are lazy.

Devilboy (System | Threads | Answers | This Thread)
Speaking, I believe, as about the only participant who prefers a CD player over a computer-based front end, I can say unequivocally that laziness has nothing to do with my decision, and if you have pulled that conclusion from my statements in this thread, then either your reading comprehension needs some polishing or my communication skills need work.

Is a CD player superior to a hard drive? Well, one cannot separate a hard drive from the computer system built around it, so it's not really an apples to apples comparison. The CD player/Computer comparison would be more appropriate.

Bottom line, I'm not going to answer the question. I don't know why humans seem to be so intent on us vs. them questions, whether it's vinyl/digital, solid state/tubes, CD player/Computer, Chevy/Ford...politics, religion...it never ends.
this post falls into the philosophical argument : "a is better than b" .

our hobby is subjective. some people prefer a particular dac in a particular cd player over the latest technology.

it's not logic or mathematics, its taste.

there were some older players that were pretty good--perhaps some preferable over today's technology, e.g., older wadia, cal and forsell.