Is anyone still using a CD Player

tomcarr

Happy Summer!  Good to read that you are still enjoying the McIntosh MCD-600 Player.  Celebrate Retirement.

Happy Listening!

Honestly, I do find myself enjoying the vinyl medium more than any other. It is simply more engaging for some inexplicable reason. However, despite my awareness of this and due to an almost total lack of my genre on LP, my predominate format is CD playback. Much more detail and soundstage and entertaining to deep dive into fun nuances. (What is my genre of choice you ask? Downtempo, acid jazz, electronica) Then about streaming, which, if I wanted to do it at any level of quality is simply out of my budget. I gave up before I really got started due to my worthless provider out here in the sticks. So a big vote for the silver disk.

Physical media is the way for me.  I adore knobs, buttons, switches, sliders and all the tactility (new word?) that the analog world provides the high performance audio hobby.  Growing from radio to album to R2R to cassette to CD to SACD and the higher rez versions of said discs and the gear that supports it is my audio world.  Always the chance and opportunity to improve the musical results.

Then GUI interfaces and the digital invasion of "audio files" as opposed to songs, tracks or cuts.  As an old drummer, i'll happily save my swipes, taps, swishes, drags, flicks and my galvanic response for my dear lover, and not my digital interface.

And at times, they're both quite disagreeable.  Wouldn't you agree. 

I do a little bit of “streaming” via Spotify on my iPad. 
 

Mostly, I listen to CDs, SACDs, and LPs. 
I guess they will have to confiscate my Audiophile membership card.