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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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cincyjim
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I have to agree with Jasonbourne52
My CD collection is huge and categorized from 
A to Z. Hard drive gives out I’m prepared.
jafant
19,041 posts
 
Not me by a long shot.

Happy Listening!
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arcticdeth
1,572 posts
 
Physical media is king. 
  As mentioned, knowing I purchased my LPs’, CDs’, cassettes & 8-tracks, and still use my CDs !  Burned the LPs’ not on cd to cdrs’
   

  Plus the crash scenario, hard drives get corrupted, crash,...and when they crash. 
  If you have a lot of music, make a copy of it all to a hard drive, maybe 2 of them. Just in case. 
 It’s a matter of when they crash. 
  Only downloads I have are a few rare tracks from apple store 

majority is all from cd and LP. 


   
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rvpiano
2,516 posts
 
I think a small majority here prefers spinning to streaming.
‘But that may because of the way the question was phrased.
 I was an inveterate spinner for a long time, but am gradually going to the other side.
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