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RE: Are CD Players Even Relevant Anymore?

" -Greater reliability." I love that optimism. I cannot tell you how many hours I spend each month trying to find out e.g why my DAC suddenly won't lock to the player output from my PC. Or why a file I can see in the database has not loaded into the player or when drives corrupt (happened this afternoon, fortunately fixable) etc, etc.

PC audio certainly has many advantages but round about zero when it comes to information about the music or tracks. Example: friend contacted me during the week confused at a download he was listening to. The music was very enjoyable but the stereo imaging was just weird. He knew that I had the original CD and wondered if that sounded just as strange. I pointed out to him that it was a "live" in studio recording and the session photos in the CD booklet showed why the imaging was weird with the microphones at the side of the band ( by convention) which meant that the bass and drums were situated in front of the (title star player) piano. Neither of which fact could be gathered from the download of course.

I would stick with my SACD transport were it not for the fact that I know that this is the last hurrah for it and that it cannot be replaced. So redbook is computerised just to preserve the transport for SACD duties. The only reason.


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