Is anyone still using a CD Player

Listening to music seems to be one of the few activities left where you don’t HAVE to use a touchscreen. I would rather clean an LP any day than swipe swipe swipe etc.

@thelotusgroup "I do 5 different treatments to CDs (the ones I really want to listen to) and the difference from before and after is staggering"

What are the treatments that you do?

Keep my CDs. Ripped most of them to a flash drive for road trips  Harmon Kardon system in my Subaru. My internet service was raided by private equity with crumbs snapped up by an inept useless giant. Streaming is not reliable. 

This is the order of sound quality from top to bottom.  CD's, rips, streaming.  This was verified by a demo of all three with the same masters.   

I finally got my parents to dump all their cassettes today. There is no way they are ever going away from their CDs. I have to admit that when I am there, I am amazed at how nice their system sounds on much less expensive and much older equipment than mine.