Is this the END of DAYS for the high end CD player

The Record companies want to go to a pay per play.
When the' cloud' computing is the norm, and everyones info is controlled by someone else... Then pay per play will become a reality. It will be illegal to play a song without the fee (Congress passes this law in 2023. At the behest of the record labels and the RIAA)
Owning prerecorded music is also outlawed. 13,070 audiophiles are jailed a total of 1,890,000 years for breaking the law, and are fined a total of $900,000,000,770,000,000,000,000,000,000,00.oo by the RIAA. Lawyers have a field day.
I flee to Switzerland with my LP and CD collection. Along with thousands of other audiophiles.
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I started a (heated) thread about this very issue not long ago. Apparently so heated that Audiogon pulled it after a few days. In that thread, I stated that the cd player is dead. I have my thoughts on why people won't embrace the demise of the compact disc and I won't go into that here, however Elizabeth made a good point. "....the outlook for cd playback may seem gloomy, but it will not die either. Way too many cds out there." Yes, people with a big cd collection may not want to burn all those albums for a number of reasons. Also, people seem to think that a hard drive/DAC combo will always sound inferior to a standalone CDP. For the life of me, I don't understand how that could be. If PettyOfficer chimes in, this thread will get VERY funny.

CD will travel the same path as vinyl.
Computer audio will reign supreme!
Then consider proliferation of tweaks, Machina Dynamica Foos Foos for sound cards/DACs; esoteric materials for cases, servers etc., pcb wire upgrades, hard drive mods (Sidebar: which is better, mechanically written or solid state?), copper, gold, silver, platimun, unobtaniunm!!!!AARRRGH!!!!!

The questions/debates: What type of RAM is most musical? Transparent? Sound Stage?!

The possibilities are endless!!!! The tweaking and upgrading monster is still alive!!!!

But wait!

The best of all!

"Vintage" hard drives! Processors! RAM! "Old school" computer audio! Whew! We are safe!

A little END of YEAR foolishness my friends!
Hope you enjoyed it!

Happy New Year to you and your families with many a healthy, prosperous New Years to come!

Best,

Dave

foolishness Dave??. i think you nailed it!

If it is not, it is about to go thru a huge change. It's going to be a while yet, but universal disc players and high res disc players 'IF' disc players do prevail, will be the norm soon enough.... IMHO.

Mainstream music playback in the digital domain is definitely headed for the Hard drive based outfit.

Blame the iPod boys and girls. or Steve Jobs.

Staying out of the server based music game because changes come so frequently, is the poorest of excuses, though I've used it myself. The problem with it is this... if one truly believes such is the case in truth... they'll never get into the game itself, for it's not stopping anytime soon.

Ya just gotta jump in! Somewhere! Waiting for the digital dust to settle is like uh, waiting for Hell itself to freeze over so you can plan a ski trip!

Playstation, X box, receivers, DVD players, etc., have all been setting us up to learn menus and now personal confusers are showing us just how easy it is to acquire, facilitate, manage, and use remarkably large libraries at our fingertips! Boot up... download... press play! Done.

our music gets stored, labled, and cataloged in mere moments. the quality too is now just as fascinating and appealing and alluring.

So why not have a library of nearly 3000 Cds you can put in your coat pocket? Or 10,000 that you can hold in one hand?

Why not for $4K or less? And why not if the sound quality surpasses that of $5 to $6K CD players easily?