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Who is ditching their shiny disc spinners?

I want to upgrade my digital side … (currently Bluesound Vault 2i feeding the DAC of Oppo 105) … plan to spend around $2k … since I’ve ripped all my CDs to the Vault, thinking of spending it all on a DAC, and retire/sell the Oppo while it still has some value. I do have a few older CDPs I could retain as backup, but not sure why I would ever need.

Alternatively, was considering a better combined CDP/DAC like a newer Marantz or Yamaha … upgrades DAC performance some, and a reliable spinner for quite a few more years … but I have very few SACDs, so feeling like this would be the tail wagging the dog.

In what direction have you been migrating?
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georgehifi
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Its been proven over a dozen years ago that reading music from a HD sounds better than from a CD player. I got rid of all my cd/sacd players almost 15 years ago.

Yes no ones arguing that, but if what you put on the HD comes from streaming or downloading, it’s usually the "later compress re-issue" that you get, and therefore will sound shite compared to earlier CD of the same piece that aren’t compressed.

Just look at the difference just between these two, earlier CD issue v later re-issue that are usually the the download/streamed ones.

https://dr.loudness-war.info/album/list/year?artist=Traveling+Wilburys&album=Traveling+Wilburys

https://dr.loudness-war.info/album/list/year?artist=Bruce+Springsteen&album=Born+To+Run

Cheers George


stuartk
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This appears to be one of those divisive issues that cannot be resolved.

Some of us prefer streaming and some of us prefer physical media. 

Why not just leave it at that?  

Arguing is not likely to change many minds. 

Frankly, the value of such threads eludes me. 
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georgehifi
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Arguing is not likely to change many minds.

Frankly, the value of such threads eludes me.

The value is, to give the provenance of what they stream/download to you, so you can say yes I'll pay (to uncompressed) or no won't pay (to compressed) issues of the same album.
https://dr.loudness-war.info/album/list/year?artist=Stevie+Nicks&album=Bella+Donna
They'll get me to join if they did that for starters. 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Gmex_4hreQ&ab_channel=MattMayfieldMusic

Cheers George

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sbank
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@sparksgja , When you get that urge to jump off the album to instant gratification you can instead queue to play AFTER the album completes. It's a good habit. Cheers,
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fleschler
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@facten  100% agreement.  I have 7,500 CDs, mostly excellently transferred or remastered (or digital like superb JVC version of Bill Holman Brilliant Corners analog 30 ips 1/2" two track 1997 recording only available on CD).   No hassle, plop CD into transport and away we go.  I have a high end DAC though (COS Engineering D1v).  One of my friends only extracts his 3,000 (and some of my) CDs onto a thumb drive and plays that through his high end Meridian DAC.  Liner notes on classical CDs can be superb booklets (such as Marston CDs).   Streaming is okay but a huge hassle to achieve my analog and CD playback quality.
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