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In Reply to: RE: Why even have a CD player? posted by MannyE on December 19, 2016 at 09:13:03
Manny,
I don't consider myself an audiophile, and I mostly lurk here, so I can speak only for myself but not for the many very knowledgable participants here. Using a CD player is simpler and more convenient than using a file-based source system. IMHO, "simpler" because there is less equipment and fewer accessories needed to listen to music, and more "convenient" because using a CD player requires less effort and fewer support systems (e.g., wi-fi or Ethernet) than a file-based source system. Please understand that I am not critical of those who, for a variety of reasons, do not want to use a CD player or who prefer a file-based source. Moreover, storage space for and organization of CDs presents problems that a file-based source addresses very well.. But on the whole, KISS is a good approach here.
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I have one in my system. A Cambridge CXN music server.
I load-up an external hard drive with all my digital music (I still buy CDs because if they are a year old or more, they are mostly super cheap) and plug it in to the CXN's USB port.
I do not use wi-fi or any connection to my computer. Just the hard drive. The CXN does the rest. It shows me everything from A-Z, and it also lists playlist files I have made.
I can hit random, or I can select any album or any song quickly. It's all so easy. Never have to leave the chair to look through a CD rack. All my CDs are in boxes in the attic. Don't even know why I keep them after I have ripped them.
I had a really nice Denon DCD-1650AR CD player which worked really well as a transport for my Lite Audio DAC-60, but the convenience of the music server won out. The Denon offered a marginally better sound than the CXN (the difference is very subtle), but when I want the best sound, I listen to vinyl.
Until recently, server based music systems were ridiculously complicated and took a lot of finagling to get working and even then there were (seemingly) constant software upgrades and we went from wav to flac to whatever Apple annoyingly uses to be "apple."
I didn't see a single box solution that would finally make it simple to store and play music files in a system. I guess no one wanted to develop a player that would need an upgrade while it was in your car on the way home.
But recently I have seen solutions from Pioneer and I think Sony. I can only imagine that the rest will follow.
Oh well... thanks for an interesting discussion.
Until recently, server based music systems were ridiculously complicated and took a lot of finagling to get working and even then there were (seemingly) constant software upgrades and we went from wav to flac to whatever Apple annoyingly uses to be "apple."So what DOES Apple annoyingly use to be "apple"? Lets see. The options on Apple include MP3, AAC, ALAC, FLAC, WAV, AIFF, and a few others. Hmm, that sounds pretty much like any other computer based music server.
Can you be more specific? What essential formats do they support or not support that makes them annoying? Personally, I haven't run across anything.
As for CD players, I still own one.... but I've probably played it only 3 or 4 times in the past 3 or 4 years! It's probably more hassle to sell it than to wipe the dust from it every now and then. ;-)
Edits: 12/19/16
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