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Anyone sell their CD player and CDs???

8-Tracked said:
Anyone sell their CD player and CDs??? That is the topic title!
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The context was audiocrzy's comments about his multi-hundred disc jukeboxes. Impossibly slow on random play, noisy, and...

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And yes proffesional market CD juke boxes are still made!
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No longer produced for obvious reasons. Not Sony. Not Yamaha. Not Tascam. Follow any cursory Google search and the term you find is "discontinued". What remains are five disk players. Great for tiny music libraries. ;)

8-Tracked said:
Satisfied?
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Spending more time listening than shuffling disks around, not having to share discs between systems, instant access to whatever I choose, enjoying shuffle mode to rediscover forgotten friends, hearing higher quality 24 bit content, most certainly!

To each his own.
 
Grenadeslio said:
And many are still working flawlessly, new belts once in awhile helps
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Just responding to the disinformation about their current manufacture. :)

If that series of compromises floats your boat, fine. Speaking of which, I was delighted to get rid of this anchor ten years ago:

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Having instant access to any track from a thousand albums without motors whirring, gears whining and mechanisms clunking during the wait -- is truly a beautiful thing. Meanwhile, I use the same library across several systems accessed a number of different ways depending upon mood.


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E-Stat said:
Just responding to the disinformation about their current manufacture. :)

If that series of compromises floats your boat, fine. Speaking of which, I was delighted to get rid of this anchor ten years ago:

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Having instant access to any track from a thousand albums without motors whirring, gears whining and mechanisms clunking during the wait -- is truly a beautiful thing. Meanwhile, I use the same library across several systems accessed a number of different ways depending upon mood.


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Also just responding to the disinformation that these machines are unreliable "boat anchors".

I prefer physical media, streaming is dedicated to background listening only around here where it belongs, to each his own.
 
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My digital media is boxed and most will be sold after the Pandemic let up. All my movies and music are on Hard Drives, with multiple backups. I will keep my records.
 
Right now there just seems to be a never-ending supply of cheap CDs. Our county's "Friends Of The Library" bookstores sell CDs for $0.25 to $1.00. Garage sales are the same.

I have one woman out here that used to run a church donation shop out here. At the start of COVID, the store was closed, but donations kept rolling in. So she posted on Facebook Marketplace, selling milk crates of CDs/DVDs for $20 - but she has no idea what is in them. I went over and bought a few crates of CDs (about 190 per crate). Found some great stuff. So I offered her $100 for 6 more crates. I've been back 5 times in the last 6 months, last time in Feb. I've gotten about 4,000 from her. I asked her on my last visit how much more does she have. She said that this purchase finally got rid of all of the CDs ...... IN HER GARAGE. Then she showed me a picture of a giant storage space she has that is still completely full of CDs/DVDs. I took a few months off, but I am going back this week for another car full.
 
Steve Sparks said:
Right now there just seems to be a never-ending supply of cheap CDs. Our county's "Friends Of The Library" bookstores sell CDs for $0.25 to $1.00. Garage sales are the same.

I have one woman out here that used to run a church donation shop out here. At the start of COVID, the store was closed, but donations kept rolling in. So she posted on Facebook Marketplace, selling milk crates of CDs/DVDs for $20 - but she has no idea what is in them. I went over and bought a few crates of CDs (about 190 per crate). Found some great stuff. So I offered her $100 for 6 more crates. I've been back 5 times in the last 6 months, last time in Feb. I've gotten about 4,000 from her. I asked her on my last visit how much more does she have. She said that this purchase finally got rid of all of the CDs ...... IN HER GARAGE. Then she showed me a picture of a giant storage space she has that is still completely full of CDs/DVDs. I took a few months off, but I am going back this week for another car full.
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Call me, I'll head there with you! :D
 
I made the mistake back in 1988 after buying my first CD player of selling or giving away all my albums. 2 years ago my wife got me a Rega P3 so I started buying back used copies of what I had. Several months ago I got over 40 back that I gave away in the exact condition as the day I gifted them.

I still buy CDs and recently bought a nice player, Rotel 1572 that replaced an older 1072.
 
The Fuxtor said:
I've started buying cd players and CDs again... They are so cheap I can load up on stuff I wouldn't have bothered paying 20+ bucks years ago... I find streaming a hassle , and I just like using physical media anyway
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Same! I'm enjoying it a lot. I already racked up 260 albums on CD and I'm not stopping any time soon.
I love vinyl but CDs are hard to beat at $1.99 each at thrift stores!

I do use streaming through Apple Music but mostly at my desk while working.
 
eiraved said:
Which was once said about LPs as I recall. I feel better knowing that if my streamer goes down for whatever reason, I can always pop in one of my my trusty CDs/LPs and keep the music playing..
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That or your streaming service w all yr favorites lists goes out of business.
The cloud is an illusion. There is benefit to owning your music on LPs, tapes, cds or files.
Short a house fire or some such, its yours forever.
FWIW, I've been on Amazon HD for less than 6 months & they raised the price already. Not too hard to see how this all ends up.
 
Grenadeslio said:
Also just responding to the disinformation that these machines are unreliable "boat anchors".
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You're the only one who has used the term "unreliable".

Waiting for Rube Goldberg-esque machines to find music rather than instant access from a music server is a waste of time to me. How do you decide which part of your CD collection is found in the carousels at any given time? Do they undergo regular rotation?

And it seems many here don't understand the concept of streaming any digital content (including ripped CDs) from your *own system*. All of my CDs now live in the space of a toaster. Which could fit 40,000 albums using higher capacity drives.

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Bob in WI said:
That or your streaming service w all yr favorites lists goes out of business.
The cloud is an illusion. There is benefit to owning your music on LPs, tapes, cds or files.
Short a house fire or some such, its yours forever.
FWIW, I've been on Amazon HD for less than 6 months & they raised the price already. Not too hard to see how this all ends up.
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How is network-based music an illusion?
 
E-Stat said:
You're the only one who has used the term "unreliable".

Waiting for Rube Goldberg-esque machines to find music rather than instant access from a music server is a waste of time to me. How do you decide which part of your CD collection is found in the carousels at any given time? Do they undergo regular rotation?

And it seems many here don't understand the concept of streaming any digital content (including ripped CDs) from your *own system*. All of my CDs now live in the space of a toaster. Which could fit 40,000 albums using higher capacity drives.

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definitely implied, and this isn't the 1st or even the 2nd thread you felt the need to bash these players.

Just wondering what bothers you so much that others like these decks that you feel the need to belittle their decision and go on about how you listen to digital is so much better, and continually bash the decks.

maybe you should check your Audio Karma
 
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I have kept all my CDs (6K+), and have them ripped to a server. So I no longer own a CD player, though I suppose I could play one in my Blu-ray player. When I buy a new CD, it's immediately ripped. The reason I don't rely entirely on streaming from an online service (subscribe to Deezer and Qobuz) is that the more obscure stuff I like often disappears from them.
 
Grenadeslio said:
Just wondering what bothers you so much that others like these decks that you feel the need to belittle their decision and go on about how you listen to digital is so much better, and continually bash the decks.
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Trying to spread the good word as to how much more convenience and power is available today for a song. You no longer need to rely upon 90s tech. Conceptually, the iTunes model was right on target. They just needed to up the ante on quality.

I'm interested in how Spark1's question will be answered.
 
E-Stat said:
Trying to spread the good word as to how much more convenience and power is available today for a song. You no longer need to rely upon 90s tech. Conceptually, the iTunes model was right on target. They just needed to up the ante on quality.

I'm interested in how Spark1's question will be answered.
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this can all be done without all the bashing eh?
 
Perhaps I don't understand why some folks choose having multiple mediocre CD players/changers rather than at least one good server based transport/DAC with greater performance and flexibility.

For some reason there's this false dichotomy that you either spin a CD or you subscribe to a music service. Why would I do that when CDs are so cheap today? They totally ignore the center ground where you purchase that music inexpensively (I've gotten LOTS of used CDs from Azon), rip it to your local computer and serve it up immediately - however you please. Add to that high resolution 24 bit or DSD content. Maybe some MP3s if that's the only way the music is available as I have found. The music format doesn't require using a *different* transport in the new world. Doesn't matter.

Having a fraction of my library accessible relatively quickly via changers many years ago was great. Having all your library instantly accessible considerably raised the bar for me! One post mentioned a collection of 2000 CDs. Seven changers? Even more if my collection grows?

Go figure.
 
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