Anyone sell their CD player and CDs???

[dfoulk]

I like my CD's, and they will stay put as long as I am still here! I have 4 DAC's and rotate them for variety, so streaming is not in my future. Computers are now the bane of
my existence personally, but I certainly do not have ill will against streaming or any means chosen to store and listen to music. I just enjoy the original format

 

[RobRoy]

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It's not as bad as it sounds. We never intended to resell anyway. We occasionally weed out our selection and the destination of those that don't make the cut is the trash can. We never saved VHS tapes either.

 

[Supercool!]

I have really come to resent the commercial coercion of internet and computer based entities and just don't like streaming for that reason ....in fact the subscription lifestyle being templated slowly over time in society is part of it all. I also basically dislike the interfaces, phone, pad and software related but of course tolerate them as required. The point is, I don't want the aggravation mixed with my pleasure.

I like CDs and have found an easy way to store them like mini LPs so I guess I'd have to vote for the tangible side of things. Sonically, I would never doubt the sound quality of properly done streaming or CDs as I've heard both sound great. .....and then of course there is my beloved vinyl..."ah youth, ah wilderness" !!!! ...just love it!

 

[Gigantic]

I did it 16 years ago. I'd spent 6 years digitizing a collection of between 5000-6000 cds and 4-500 LPs when I had to move half-way across country at short notice, by myself. The records and CDs weren't going to fit in my truck and trailer in the first place and I really wasn't interested in moving them, so I unloaded them for pennies on the dollar. For years, I kept them on my laptop and backed up in triplicate on portable hard drives, which I still have, but now, I've also uploaded them to the cloud and stream with an Apple Music subscription, which has made my digital copies all but irrelevant, but for the tracks that Apple doesn't have in their ecosystem. Now That I've got a turntable again, I wish I still had my vinyl, but I don't miss CDs at all. Granted, my hearing isn't what it used to be after US Army Artillery, playing in bands, going to shows, racing motorcycles and working with power tools, but I can't tell the difference between losses streaming and CDs

 

[eiraved]

My biggest regret regarding CD's, DVD's and BlueRays is throwing away the cases and storing them all in little suitcases to save space. It makes them pretty much impossible to re-sell.

Absolutely the case, pun intended!

 

[twiiii]

Every 10 years or so I trade my Mcintosh CD player or CD/dvd player for newer unit. That way if some thing breaks or stops functioning repair parts are still available. I did keep my MCD 7005 longer than that. 20 years, but parts were still available at the time. I traded my MVP 861 in on a MCD 550 and am very happy, I still have my MVP 891 for video and audio. I also have a Marantz Professional CD recorder if the 550 breaks while it is being repaired.

I will never sell my CD's just like I will never sell my LP's.

 

[Elfasto]

Nope. I keep them. I buy more (Thrift stores are pretty good).

 

[raycarr00]

vhs tapes...lol. dumped trash bags full of them over a decade ago. don't miss the format. have plenty of vinyl, mp3's n cd's. never enough, though. find them at antique malls, as well.

 

[Modlin]

never
added 3 in recent years
adding cds all the time....new/used from amz, thrift stores
dont listen to 'muzak' tunes on those different platforms that I can not really name at time of typing...its like reading a book on a tablet...

 

[wspohn]

I retain one CD player for auditioning material, but all of the digital material I listen to is on a network drive for play throughout the house in any of my four systems plus stand alone (Sonos) speakers. If I am going to physically spin anything it is going to be vinyl.

 

[Rob84]

I have 4 cd players; 2 in my rig and two older models I keep on hand, and I buy CDs constantly. Although I have 95% of my CDs ripped, I'll never rid of them.

 

[wspohn]

I have boxes and boxes of CDs - like 4000 of them, in storage. I never seem to get rid of any either.

I also do have another CD player - it was the first audiophile grade player I ever bought - an Arcam Delta 70 and I also bought their Black Box, the first ever stand alone DA converter.

 

[JoeESP9]

Although I rarely play a CD since I started ripping them to FLAC I keep two working DVD/SACD players (Yamaha DVD S-1800, Denon DVD-1920). I also keep my CD's. They're just no longer on display.

 

[DesertRatt]

I treat computers as a necessary evil. I don't trust them, and i never found any intrinsic pleasure in using them. Starting with a TI-99 in 1980 I've probably had over 25 PCs of one type or another. I find them to be a pain in the arse and not reliable. And there's no curb appeal in the sense that a beautiful piece of audio gear has. Doing forums and YouTube is ok, but i don't want to turn on a computer to play a song.

I regret seeing seeking THREE record collections. I could kick myself. So, I'm not getting rid of CD or my cassettes. I have all sorts of media players from full components to hand held portable. I like being able to carry media and a player maybe to a picnic, or some outing. I like owning over renting.

I've had a spotify account for about 8-months. My usage of it has gone steadily down month by month, so i must not be enjoying it. It's "ok" for some things, but again I don't like doing computer junk when i want to play music.

2 years ago I ripped 1500 CDs to Jriver. We had friends over and i wanted to play some b/g music. I went in opened my laptop with the Jrivr and &"$#? WINDOWS was updating! F@@& that! It was the last time i bothered with Jriver.

There's certain modern things i just don't like. The other one is touch screen controls in cars. Makes me nutz! LCD alarm clocks too! 4-button wrist watches are a pain in the arse! And last but not least "up and down arrows" to change volume on anything!

I gotta go make a mix tape!

 

[JoeESP9]

You do know that you can tell Windows to only do updates when you say so? Also, when Windows wants to restart for updates you can tell Windows not to restart until you say so,

4 button wristwatches? Could you be specific?

 

[DesertRatt]

You do know that you can tell Windows to only do updates when you say so? Also, when Windows wants to restart for updates you can tell Windows not to restart until you say so,

4 button wristwatches? Could you be specific?

Hey Joe,
Yeah, I suppose there are settings for all this stuff in Windows. My hate relationship with operating systems is that for people who only want to do a few simple things, like WP, browsing, and perhaps playing videos, there really ought to be an "Appliance" setting - right at the install, which eliminates 99.99999% of billions of setting combinations that users like me will never need in a billion years. The fact that they don't recognize different classes of users is a major design flaw of both Win and Mac and IOS. It's all sh!t-design because it is spec'd out by programmers instead of savvy marketing people. What do programmers want? Endless, endless menus, options, switches, settings, controls, and complexity to justify their existence. And sadly, the dorks at Apple and M'soft let them run the show. Windows today is like a giant 100-room mansion built on an original foundation that was a pup-tent and just kept expanding one room at a time. It's not even good enough to call a "quilt."

Now, a slightly better approach is Chrome Notebook. However, one then has to be a slave to the evilest company on the planet - Google. I refuse to be any part of their spying, tracking, following, surveillance, and advertising apparatus. I have no Google account and no intention of having one.

Next up is Linux, and they almost have it right. The basic Ubuntu or Mint install can be very vanilla, and very easy to work with. The problem is, their apps are kind of 1980s-ish and really just poor quality. Nice toy, but not very useful.

It's me, I know. I just think the whole "PC and Smartphone" world is a miserable heap of bad ideas, bad implementation, and guaranteed frustration. I just don't care for wasting hours on end searching thru jillions of menu settings. 50% of the times I hit "Control-P" to print something to our new HP wireless printer, my windows machine claims it is offline. I mean c'mon, man. 32 years of Windows and they still can't reliably print? And MACOS is at least as bad if not worse. The problem with Apple is that THEY think they are brilliant. But most of their software is hideously nonsensical in an effort to "look smooth." iPhones? Pure crap.

Admittedly, I have little patience. I know billions of the Earth's people LOVE Windows and Apple! Good for them.

Four-button watches. You know, the ones that have time zones, alarms and dates, and calendars and stopwatches if only you know how to cycle thru all the button menus and what the procedure is to set the time. Usually, they are LCD things for under $50 bucks. I had one but lost the 2" x 2" 100-page manual that was set in 1-point type, so I couldn't set the time. I chucked it into the waste basket.

 

[E-Stat]

Yeah, I suppose there are settings for all this stuff in Windows. My hate relationship with operating systems is that for people who only want to do a few simple things, like WP, browsing, and perhaps playing videos, there really ought to be an "Appliance" setting...

I'm not a fan of using general purpose computers for playback either. I store the library on a NAS located in the office, but use tiny, Linux based players that do only that. Power them on and they play. Turn them off when done.

I do enjoy, however, using a phone, pad or watch to instantly select any content from the library. Here's an RPi4 and its battery power supply.

 

[JoeESP9]

Hey Joe,
Yeah, I suppose there are settings for all this stuff in Windows. My hate relationship with operating systems is that for people who only want to do a few simple things, like WP, browsing, and perhaps playing videos, there really ought to be an "Appliance" setting - right at the install, which eliminates 99.99999% of billions of setting combinations that users like me will never need in a billion years. The fact that they don't recognize different classes of users is a major design flaw of both Win and Mac and IOS. It's all sh!t-design because it is spec'd out by programmers instead of savvy marketing people. What do programmers want? Endless, endless menus, options, switches, settings, controls, and complexity to justify their existence. And sadly, the dorks at Apple and M'soft let them run the show. Windows today is like a giant 100-room mansion built on an original foundation that was a pup-tent and just kept expanding one room at a time. It's not even good enough to call a "quilt."

Now, a slightly better approach is Chrome Notebook. However, one then has to be a slave to the evilest company on the planet - Google. I refuse to be any part of their spying, tracking, following, surveillance, and advertising apparatus. I have no Google account and no intention of having one.

Next up is Linux, and they almost have it right. The basic Ubuntu or Mint install can be very vanilla, and very easy to work with. The problem is, their apps are kind of 1980s-ish and really just poor quality. Nice toy, but not very useful.

It's me, I know. I just think the whole "PC and Smartphone" world is a miserable heap of bad ideas, bad implementation, and guaranteed frustration. I just don't care for wasting hours on end searching thru jillions of menu settings. 50% of the times I hit "Control-P" to print something to our new HP wireless printer, my windows machine claims it is offline. I mean c'mon, man. 32 years of Windows and they still can't reliably print? And MACOS is at least as bad if not worse. The problem with Apple is that THEY think they are brilliant. But most of their software is hideously nonsensical in an effort to "look smooth." iPhones? Pure crap.

Admittedly, I have little patience. I know billions of the Earth's people LOVE Windows and Apple! Good for them.

Four-button watches. You know, the ones that have time zones, alarms and dates, and calendars and stopwatches if only you know how to cycle thru all the button menus and what the procedure is to set the time. Usually, they are LCD things for under $50 bucks. I had one but lost the 2" x 2" 100-page manual that was set in 1-point type, so I couldn't set the time. I chucked it into the waste basket.

I hear you. I remember when DOS based systems were all there was. Autoexec.bat files were a royal PITA. So was dealing with interrupts and defining ports. As a retired IT Professional, current Windows doesn't present much of a problem for me.

When I set up a PC for a friend or neighbor, I set Windows to stay out of the way. For example, with laptops I always set them so that closing the lid turns it off.

As for those tiny manuals, the manual that came with my bicycle "computer" is ~2" x 2" with more than 150 pages. I need a magnifying glass to read it and I have prescription bifocals, I found an online copy and downloaded the PDF file.

Although I have a "smart phone" it's used almost exclusively for phone calls and texting. The screens on cell phones are just too small for me to want to do more with them.

I asked about the watches because I have several analog chronograph type watches including a mechanical Omega I bought in 1967 while in the USAF. All of them have two buttons and a knob on the stem. The Omega was $50. That was almost a third of my monthly pay.

You couldn't pay me to acquire any Apple products. I'm not a fan of closed systems.

 

[parkerdom]

NO and YES... I got rid of all my CD's, SACD's, DVD-A's, and Blu-ray Audio's, but not before converting them to .wav, .flac, and .dsf files and putting those files on three SS flash drives. I kept my Oppo BDP-103, though, because I know of no other component with three USB inputs. My next upgrade will be a DAC.

 

[runnin']

I haven’t sold off my cds or player. In fact I doubled down, buying a third CD player this year. I also have 2 dacs and a turntable. More is better if you have the room!