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I have to chuckle at the members here that say that they like to hold the recording in their hand and like to read the liner notes. It reminds me of 1998 when Apple came out with the iMac. The iMac, in a lot of ways was a revolitonary pc for its time. Then Steve Jobs did something with the iMac that freaked everyone out......the iMac came with no floppy drive! Never mind that just about everyone had already stopped using floppy discs, people still wanted a floppy drive 'just in case'. Well of course Jobs was right, if you aren't using it, then you don't need it. He forced the computing world to face up to the fact that the floppy drive was no longer necessary, and if you wanted his computer, you were not getting a floppy drive. Of course he sold millions of iMacs. Of course, the rest of the computing world followed. I see the same thing here with cd players. They are on their way out, but some diehards just won't let go. I still have a cd player that I rarely listen to. I should have sold it when I bought my Squeezebox and bought a killer DAC with the proceeds. Every year I watch as the value of my cd player deprciates. I found myself listening to much more music with a hard drive system than with a cd player.
I still own a cd player and have no plans to sell it soon, although I'll be the first to tell you that it is old technology and it is on the way out. I'm still one of those 'just in case' guys'. I own two turntables and 3,000 lp's that I'm still holding onto 'just in case', even though I never play them. Basic human nature does not like change, sometimes even if it's something better.
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I have to chuckle at the members here that say that they like to hold the recording in their hand and like to read the liner notes. It reminds me of 1998 when Apple came out with the iMac. The iMac, in a lot of ways was a revolitonary pc for its time. Then Steve Jobs did something with the iMac that freaked everyone out......the iMac came with no floppy drive! Never mind that just about everyone had already stopped using floppy discs, people still wanted a floppy drive 'just in case'. Well of course Jobs was right, if you aren't using it, then you don't need it. He forced the computing world to face up to the fact that the floppy drive was no longer necessary, and if you wanted his computer, you were not getting a floppy drive. Of course he sold millions of iMacs. Of course, the rest of the computing world followed. I see the same thing here with cd players. They are on their way out, but some diehards just won't let go. I still have a cd player that I rarely listen to. I should have sold it when I bought my Squeezebox and bought a killer DAC with the proceeds. Every year I watch as the value of my cd player deprciates. I found myself listening to much more music with a hard drive system than with a cd player.
I still own a cd player and have no plans to sell it soon, although I'll be the first to tell you that it is old technology and it is on the way out. I'm still one of those 'just in case' guys'. I own two turntables and 3,000 lp's that I'm still holding onto 'just in case', even though I never play them. Basic human nature does not like change, sometimes even if it's something better.
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