Future of CD's - Hard drive based music


The big change/future I have found is the use of all digital music - I havent used my CD player since christmas - I got a Mac Mini and ripped all my CDs to the harddrive lossless formated and got a decent DAC - I Ripped only the songs I liked and I now have over 4 days worth of music I enjoy - no more getting up changing CD's,I can instantly play any song from my entire library of favorites. I use my Sony Hi-def TV as the monitor so I can web browse while listening to music. The sound quality is as good as CD's as far as I can tell - I wonder how long it will be before lossless songs are offered online - this will completely kill the need for CD's for me.
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I haven't used a cd player for more than a year and I can't imagine going back. The only downside is the time it takes to rip your cds. I burned about 700 discs and although it was worth the effort, i think i took a few years off my life from the aggravation.
Rbischoff, i have a Benchmark dac1 with some empirical audio mods including the I2S mod. I have an Empirical Audio off ramp I2S between my computer and the Benchmark dac. I'm now mainly listening to headphones and have a bunch of different amps and cans and can say for certain that the music has all the depth and texture i expect from a first class system - nothing at all like you would think from a computer system. made a believer out of me.