Who is ditching their shiny disc spinners?

@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.

Not ditching my shiny disc spinner.

I’m so far in on physical media, I don’t want to spend the time or effort to rip just so I can sit on the couch and get frozen with indecision in what to play, or spend time making play lists, killer playlists, ultimate playlists.

I do that now with video content - I’ll sit 10, 20, 30 minutes at a time just waffling on what to watch with the endless choices.

I’ve had more problems with streaming than with physical media. My CCA just inexplicably disappears as a device to cast to - then it becomes an arcane ritual of rebooting router, modem, laptop, CCA, disable AV, re-enable - the exact sequence to get it back is random, non-repeatable, and mysterious. I become more fixated on the random dropouts, when it is working, that I never relax - always waiting for that sttttuuutter, or dropout that happens to destroy the mood.

That doesn’t even count when Wrecktum...um...Spectrum internet goes out. Their commercials say 99.9% reliability. You want to know what that really means; 8 hours, 45 minutes, and 36 seconds of "allowable" downtime per year - any time of day any length of time.

Streaming is great for sampling new music, but will never be a replacement to physical media for peace of mind and uninterrupted musical enjoyment.

But - that is JUST me. All other opinions are wrong, for me, because in my universe I am always right. :-)

@georgehifi:.

"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." 

Of course, the above makes complete sense but it wasn't the focus of my comments.

I was referring instead to the overall topic of the thread, which seems to boil down to an endless (and apparently irresolvable) dispute re: stream-ing vs. CDs. 

I was referring instead to the overall topic of the thread, which seems to boil down to an endless (and apparently irresolvable) dispute re: stream-ing vs. CDs.

"Who is ditching their shiny disc spinners?" "obviously for another digital source" 

 "And which sounds better" if you ditch the cd, don’t be in any haste yet to do it.

And I’m stating streaming/downloading to a hd, "can" be as good as playing an uncompressed early cd.
If the streaming /download company will give that same early non-compressed cd issue, and not a later compressed re-issue, which is normally the case.
Hence the need for provenance of what version your purchasing from those companies.

Cheers George