...and if my 72 yo, computer illiterate audiophile friend can work the Black Ice streamer (which he can, thanks to excellent personal assistance from Black Ice), anyone can.
Looking for a CD Player
I am in the process of replacing my Moon CD 5 CD Player --- or might be no reason to replace my present CD Player. The next CD player if purchased is probably going to be my last as I am a senior in age. My wife and I are tired of getting up and down and up and down did I mention up and down to listen to the other side of an album. So, we have a number of CDs and frankly like the ease of listening to them. Not wanting to purchase streaming music. Therefore, we / I need an education on two subjects - Do we need to have a DAC incorporated in the CD player and secondly do we need to have SACD capability?? Not wanting to spend more than 3000.00. All the help would be appreciated.
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As of 2023, in England, CDs and vinyl accounted for 9.4% of music sales and year to year growth for CDs is at 5.4% ($127 million). In the EU, CDs account for over 10% of all sales with growth at 7.3% year over year. In the US, CD are a bit less than 3% with sales (but account for over 10% of revenues) and hover around 37 million per year since 2023 and 25% of consumers say they use CDs for listening. There's as many ways to skew stats as there are to skin cats. The tremendous number of streaming sales is mostly from youngsters and Gen Zers downloading pop music and are not audiophiles. People have to stop using that red herring to validate their position. They listen on cheap, branded IEMs and headphones that no self respecting audiophile would use, or just blast it out of their smart phones (as anyone who spends even a few moments in public can attest to). And yes, there are millions of pieces of music out there with streaming that no one is listening to. Availability does not equate to acceptability (clumsy, but I was going for something catchy). It's like saying one library is bigger than another to someone who could care less what's in the cooking and home improvement section. All the best,
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@jayctoy Great!! Two other things I'll mention about streaming: 1) I've discovered artists on Qobuz who I would never have heard of otherwise, and who would not have a gotten a cent from me in CD sales; 2) Streaming is vastly less wasteful than CDs, which use fossil fuels and cannot be recycled. |
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