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Is anyone still using a CD Player

I have a bunch of CDs and the Krell 505 player.  I find myself defaulting to my Aurender Streamer and never listening to CDs.   I’m considering getting a CD Ripper and loading them via HSD or SSD card and loading into the Aurender.  Thoughts?  Am I in the dark ages even keeping the CD Player?   

ktgsjs
kmm84
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I’m picking up .80 cent CDs at the thrift store on senior day, just in case.

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mapman
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Neg. All CDs get ripped to disk and streamed. 

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faustuss
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@ktgsjs 

"Is anyone still using a CD Player"

No streaming in this house!

yyzsantabarbara
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Last week my constant nagging to a DAC manufacturer resulted in them adding DoP on SPDIF. What that means is that I can now play CD/SACD on this DAC. I will be sending my DAC in for the upgrade on Monday.

The reason to do this is because my disks ALWAYS sound better than streaming. I think I have very good fibre optic based streaming, but the disks seem to sound a bit denser (in a good way). I know this because I was able to hear these disks with the excellent Meitner MA3i DAC which does support DoP on SPDIF. I like my DAC more than the MA3i, so I am excited to hear these disks again on this DAC.

My transport at the moment is a used $200 Oppo. I will be upgrading that to the following transport in the future.

Shanling Onix Zenith XST20 Premium SACD CD... For Sale | Audiogon

BTW - last week I picked up a used Sonore OpticalRendu for $500. I am using it with a RME ADI-2 DAC in my lesser system. This streamer is running SonicOrbiter v2.9. My older Sonore OpticalRendu cannot be upgraded from v2.8. The v2.9 sounds better than the v2.8 which is on my best system. I did some research and Sonore has a new version called OpticalRendu Deluxe. This is supposed to sound much better than both of my older variants. That will be a future upgrade, maybe it will close the gap with the SACD disks.

 

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ghdprentice
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@kennyc 

 

i think so. Here is what ChatGPT says:

Here’s a rough sense of coverage:

  • 1960s: ~90–98% of major U.S. and U.K. Top 100 hits.
  • 1970s: ~95–99%.
  • 1980s: ~97–99%.
  • 1990s: ~98–99%.

They have 8 to 10 million albums and half a million at high resolution. I seldom Can’t find something I’m looking for. Typically I go looking for an album and I find six others from the same group. I’ve never heard end up listening to those. Overtime I find what I listen to changes radically because there is so much good music out there I’ve never heard.

The folks that sometimes come up short are the ones that have 12 different versions of a symphony and they happened to like one in particular made in 1960s by one particular orchestra stuff like that.

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