Who here continues to regularly use a CD player?


I do have a CD player, however, at this point, I rarely use it. I mostly listen to vinyl and stream.

Do you still regularly use your CD spinner? 

zavato

I mainly stream music with a Metronome DSS to a Metronome Le Dac2. Sound is amazing. Recently my cd player stopped working as I mentioned in another thread. Replacing it with a transport is still the question for me, as I likely will need to spend a lot of money to get to the level of my streamer. But just like many of you, I have a huge collection of CDs (and LPs) collected over many years that I would like to listen to again.

My CDR is at the heart of my system. I rarely play any CDs though, I stream through it's DAC and also use passthrough monitoring for my TT because I can attenuate everything to the same level for my preamp tubes. No more changing volume for difference sources. 

In one of my listening setups I use a Denon 1700NE and the other a Marantz SACD30n.  Both of which I use about 30% of the time to play SACDs and red book cds since I have a few hundred of both.  Stream on Tidal and Qobuz the remainder of the time.   I have this thing about actual owning my favorite music.  Can I tell the difference in sound?  I really don’t believe I can

I listen to CD's 100% of the time.  I have over 1000 classical CD's. I do not see the point of paying to rent music I already own,  I have a Weiss Engineering Jason Transport and a Berkeley Audio Design Alpha Reference DAC.  It is important to me to physically own the software and informative packaging without complicating things with streamers and internet connections.

I like listening to music on the medium it was originally recorded on… 50’s / 60’s / 70’s = vinyl. 80’s / 90’s 00’s = cd.

I’ll stream via Qobuz when I want to listen to something new and then decide if it’s something I want to buy or just stream when i’m in the mood.