Do You Still Play Compact Discs?

[howiebrou]

What's a compac

Did you donate your compact discs to the Salvation Army or use them for target practice, or do you still have them on your shelf?

What are the advantages, if any, of playing compact discs, rather than streaming the exact same title and recording through a streamer + DAC?

If you still have and play compact discs, what CD transport do you use?

What's a compact disc?

 

[thedudeabides]

Did you donate your compact discs to the Salvation Army or use them for target practice, or do you still have them on your shelf?

A very judgmental, biased (anti-digital) comment IMHO and totally inappropriate as a co-owner of WBF. The above post is a very good example of the elitism that exists around this A vs D discussion. I use my CDP all the time. It is my main source for music listening. I have no interest in streaming or vinyl. I thought we were through having these pointless repetitive endless debates about personal preferences. Guess not.

 

[spiritofmusic]

Oh, Ron is using his 7" singles as coasters and 12" LPs as placemats, so those uses for CDs are totally consistent.

 

[rbbert]

The results of the first 35 votes may reflect selection bias due to at least some who don't play CD's not responding? Otherwise the results may be different than what Ron expected?

 

[Mr Rickz]

A very judgmental, biased (anti-digital) comment IMHO and totally inappropriate as a co-owner of WBF. The above post is a very good example of the elitism that exists around this A vs D discussion. I use my CDP all the time. It is my main source for music listening. I have no interest in streaming or vinyl. I thought we were through having these pointless repetitive endless debates about personal preferences. Guess not.

I took it as a joke.

 

[jespera]

Did you donate your compact discs to the Salvation Army or use them for target practice, or do you still have them on your shelf?

What are the advantages, if any, of playing compact discs, rather than streaming the exact same title and recording through a streamer + DAC?

If you still have and play compact discs, what CD transport do you use?

Yes.

Sounds better.

marantz cd 94. Modified.

 

[dcc]

I have no plan to retire my TAD D600 CD/SACD player.

 

[microstrip]

CDs may follow the path of vinyl death and rebirth - there are so damn many of them. Look at the people who donated their record collections to charity or the shooting range who are now buying back, having wished they'd hung on to their collections. (...)

Not sure about CD's, as they are almost indestructible and exist in very large quantities, but it is already happening for SACDs - some reach very high prices, the Genesis SACD box will cost as much as the MFSL Beatles box ...

 

[Ron Resnick]

A very judgmental, biased (anti-digital) comment IMHO and totally inappropriate as a co-owner of WBF. The above post is a very good example of the elitism that exists around this A vs D discussion. I use my CDP all the time. It is my main source for music listening. I have no interest in streaming or vinyl. I thought we were through having these pointless repetitive endless debates about personal preferences. Guess not.

I apologize if I triggered some sensitivity of yours. I actually intended the question to be completely neutral, as I personally have a compact disc collection totaling around 200 CDs.

Other than trying to be a bit tongue-in-cheek, perhaps, I was not intending to be pejorative or disparaging toward compact discs.

You see the title of the thread is a simple, neutral question. I asked a positive question; I did not intend to make a normative declaration. In fact, I did not make a normative declaration.

And neither vinyl nor analog was mentioned or implied.

Again, I am sorry that I offended you.

 

[Ron Resnick]

The results of the first 35 votes may reflect selection bias due to at least some who don't play CD's not responding? Otherwise the results may be different than what Ron expected?

Since compact discs came before streaming, I assumed that anyone who has a digital playback capability likely has conpact discs and can play them. Putting it another way, I figured that if I still have compact discs, then most people probably still have compact discs.

 

[Kal Rubinson]

I no longer play CDs. All that I had, I have already ripped and any that I want, I download. Not so, yet, for SACDs but we are getting there.

 

[microstrip]

(...) You see the title of the thread is a simple, neutral question. (...)

No Ron, IMHO the neutral question would be "Do you play Compact Discs?"

Again IMHO another neutral question would be "Do you still play LPs?"

BTW, I answer yes to all of them, including tape, cassette and Edison cylinders - the gramophone currently needs a new clock spring.

 

[microstrip]

(...) Not so, yet, for SACDs but we are getting there.

How are you going to rip them? As far as I know all the usual methods need a lot of work.

 

[thedudeabides]

I apologize if I triggered some sensitivity of yours. I actually intended the question to be completely neutral, as I personally have a compact disc collection totaling around 200 CDs.

Other than trying to be a bit tongue-in-cheek, perhaps, I was not intending to be pejorative or disparaging toward compact discs.

You see the title of the thread is a simple, neutral question. I asked a positive question; I did not intend to make a normative declaration. In fact, I did not make a normative declaration.

And neither vinyl nor analog was mentioned or implied.

Again, I am sorry that I offended you.

Thank you Ron for your gracious response. Bottom line. This hobby is about enjoying music regardless of the playback devices used to attain that goal and not disparaging (by reference or innuendo) those who choose one "messenger" versus another.

 

[PierreB]

I only listen to CD or LP.
Moon Neo 260D or Rega P8.

 

[rbbert]

How are you going to rip them? As far as I know all the usual methods need a lot of work.

Probably why he responded "getting there". It can be a bit time consuming.

 

[HughP3]

when we were setting up the system, joe cali sent a gryphon scorpio transport to test against the innuos statement. the 3 of us agreed that we could discern no difference from ripped to native playback. joe/phillip o’hanlon also wanted to send the gryphon ethos out for a try but its too high a price point although reviews are very positive.

 

[Kal Rubinson]

How are you going to rip them? As far as I know all the usual methods need a lot of work.

I would not say that. It is trivial with the right equipment. I keep a couple of Oppos for it. All I have to do is load the SACD and, at my PC, start the program to rip and store an ISO on my PC. Takes only a few minutes. (I can play the ISOs but I just keep them for B/U and extract the MCH tracks as DSFs using the same program.)

I've done thousands but, these days, I only do 1-2 a week.

 

[Kal Rubinson]

Probably why he responded "getting there". It can be a bit time consuming.

Nope. What I meant by that is that not all releases can be obtained by download yet, so I am still forced to rip some SACDs. Of course, there are others that are available only as download but we are just "getting there."

 

[microstrip]

I would not say that. It is trivial with the right equipment. I keep a couple of Oppos for it. All I have to do is load the SACD and, at my PC, start the program to rip and store an ISO on my PC. Takes only a few minutes. (I can play the ISOs but I just keep them for B/U and extract the MCH tracks as DSFs using the same program.)

I've done thousands but, these days, I only do 1-2 a week.

Thanks - what is the program you are using?