Why CD players so expensive when the fomat is dead

I just cannot imagine buying a high priced CD player especially one that does not have a digital input.

Audiohpiles just love to torture themselves! I used to be the guy sitting there loading up a single CD into a 45 lb player waiting for my SET amp to warm up before I could "really" listen. What an awful time in my life! This hobby had me by the b*lls!

The issue is not CD players really- it is more the fact that 16/44.1 sucks and always has. Okay- it has gotten better recently but when the clicking and popping LP is preferred you know there is just something inherantly wrong. Lets be honest!

Now SACD/DVDA and 24bit downloads- this stuff is good! Too bad the first two are also DEAD which leaves PCs that can properly ourput the latter as the only real option these days for those looking forward.

Realremo- the example you provide is exactly what one would expect to see when bridging from one technology to the next. Of course you are going to rip your CDs- but in the future iTunes and the like which get their samples from the master tapes directly are going to completely kill the CD. In addition- out of print music like the example you give will become more accessible because the economics of creating a manufacturing run of less than mainstream music onto a CD will not come into play. You dont need to worry about needing to sell x to break even as much because the costs are soo much lower to simply get the song on a server! Music wont go "out of print" because there is nothing to print!

CDs are antiquated only multiple levels and the writing is absolutely on the wall.

Linn has produced their last CD player in 2009. They had many SOTA players over the years so for them to be exiting the market says something.

"The obvious" that their sales have declined 40% and it no longer makes sense to build these machines or that they were a one hit wonder in the CD player market and are looking for the first door out?

Think hard about this one...

Realremo- your post proves it. Dead as a doornail!

You site ordering a rare cd, and then go on to essentially say that convenience (changers) is dead!

Audiophiles can support a format alone. If they could sacd and dvda would be thriving.