dweller,
You are absolutely right. I wonder how much do spare ones even cost. Must be a big chunk of the whole machine. I do not see myself using it that much so I was hoping it would last as long as my ears will. So a few decades, give or take. Do lasers and whole mechanisms deteriorate even when not used? Some sort of "death chip"? I was thinking about one of Luxman SACD players.
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craigl59,
According to the manual on the Internet, Oppo BDP-83 does play SACDs so you do not have to worry. You are past-proof.
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craigl59, "...have over 30 boxes of nothing but cables (carefully organized...)"
And your power company thought someone was stealing their power lines to sell for scrap metal. How naive of them. |
craigl59,
Your garage seems to be an interesting place. Any wind-up record players there?
Bose people probably have no time to respond to you. They are perfecting their headphones and Bluetooth speakers and use all those computers for that. Which reminds me that I have a SONY Bluetooth speaker that is great. Better than Bose. Not Krell, but for the hotel room just what the doctor prescribed.
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craigl59, "So, this last week, bought some new Sony CD releases made after they moved to the high-res PCM format. They are incredibly accurate for orchestral textures and far superior to any of the SACDs I have gotten." You could not wait to break this news for another few days? Prompted by this thread, I decided to buy a new and hopefully my last CD player and, while I would be at it, let it be a SACD player, too. I was thinking about getting it soon, kind of like...tomorrow. If I can find it somewhere, that is. |
craigl59,
That Bob Dylan is my whole pre-recorded MiniDisc library. I have a few more that someone else recorded for me, but have not had a MiniDisc player until a few years ago when I did not really need it anymore. I bought a portable Sharp player just to hear what was on those MiniDiscs.
Speaking of moderately-failed SONY attempts, a friend of mine has their aftermarket car unit with SACD.
At the same time, and still speaking of similarly-fated formats, I find pleasure in reminding every member of Audiogon that first, and maybe even only, universal SACD/DVD-Audio car player was made by.....BOSE. It was standard in 612 (Scaglietti).
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elizabeth, I, by putting turntable in a different state (geographically), managed to resist having 37 different vinyl versions of Blood On The Tracks but would have probably collected them over time, had I only had something to play them on. You surely beat me to that one. However, I do have two Blonde On Blonde SACDs. One is single layer and on one disc and one is hybrid and that one is on two discs. And I do not even like that album. Have you ever read a short book by Nick Hornby named Songbook? It is an interesting and unexpected read. If you come across that book, see chapter about one Bob Dylan’s song. First few sentences describe just what we are talking about. https://books.google.com/books?id=eZ8q0jS2oskC&pg=PA39&source=gbs_toc_r&cad=2#v=onepage&... |
I bought SACDs as soon as anything I remotely liked came on them.. Then I bought some of the DVD-Audios. Then I bought a player that played them both. Then I realized that DVD-Audio is very inconvenient when you do not own a TV. I managed to figure it out and placed Post-It notes with instructions in each DVD-Audio case (enter-up arrow-up arrow-right arrow-enter-enter-etc.). Now I have no player, no TV, and a few DVD-Audio discs that can be played on close-to-none of the new players. I am still not giving them away, maybe some day some distant Goodwill will have a DVD-Audio machine for $5.
When it comes to different formats, I have Bob Dylan’s Blood On The Tracks on cassette, CD, SACD, MiniDisc (you did not see this coming, did you?), and LP record. When I realized how silly it was, I looked for it on eBay, too, but some freak snatched the 8-track in last moments. I have never even seen an 8-track player, except on the picture, but thought it would be the right one to start my 8-track tape collection with. In fact, I have Blood On The Tracks by Mary Lee's Corvette on CD, too.
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13 000? 4500? I am speechless. Hats off. |
wolf_garcia, "I can access any of my CDs quickly by sticking one in my CD player." I conclude that you do not have one of the earlier SONY SACD players. They were quite good but, man, you could take a shower before the music starts. |
Now, the first question remaining would be if CD-resolution downloads/streams can actually sound like those CDs. Assuming that new gear does unlock whatever potential CDs have. If downloads/streams equal it, it becomes matter of, more or less, only convenience and then we are back to the original question. What will become of CDs? |
folkfreak,
I guess, for now, I will have to stick to my copy of Sunrise CD that does contain first two Elvis’ songs together with pops, crackles, and whatever else it is. I stick to the CD while actually having it hard-driven. Hey, you do not want to ruin the CD.
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folkfreak,
Wow, I stand corrected big time. I had no idea anyone would make 78s these days. It may be a niche market, but it seems that it is a market. The secret is that I actually always want a turntable with 78 although I own exactly zero records like that.
At the same time, I have a probably very dumb question. Tell me that they are not made of shellac but something more durable.
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I agree with jafant. CD players will be around for a long time. Maybe like turntables these days. Irrelevant in bigger picture, but with enough of die-hard support to make them profitable in those low numbers. Something like 78s. Some turntables can still play them, but it is a very small group of people who may actually use it. And, when nobody is watching, I ask myself why would they use it anyway. |
When it comes to digging out CDs someone did not want, two or three years ago I came across an unopened CD in that same library basement. I bought it for $1 and liked it a lot. I went on amazon to see if others had similar response. The first thing I noticed was the price. $200. It has decreased since then and is only $91 now although used and only "good" and "very good" condition. Having said that, I would not sell it for $200 despite having it on hard drives and who knows where else. I like having it, as irrational as that may be. |
roberjerman,
There are a few of us that have not embraced streaming, but the reality is that we are dinosauri. Streaming is gaining traction big time. Reading above posts from 16 years ago, I really felt like Marty from Back to the future movie. It just happened that I stopped by a local library basement today and browsed through the CDs they are selling. $1 a piece, all donated. I would guess there was a few hundred of them, maybe 600-700, ranging from 1970s German pop star, to traditional Chinese music, to multiple versions of Beethoven’s piano works, and anything in between. Someone left them there and that is, with actually nice outcome so far, a big part of the answer to the original post. Someone had no use for CDs anymore. Not so long ago, I would browse boxes with records there. They are no more. Probably whatever could be sold was sold and remainder ended up in the landfill. They do not take them in the library anymore. Maybe, 16 years from now, there will be no library to dump your CD collection at, either.
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bomarc,
If you, by any chance, still roam Audiogon forest please read this thread again. Pay special attention to your post from, to the day, 16 years ago. What a vision.
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