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Who is ditching their shiny disc spinners?

I want to upgrade my digital side … (currently Bluesound Vault 2i feeding the DAC of Oppo 105) … plan to spend around $2k … since I’ve ripped all my CDs to the Vault, thinking of spending it all on a DAC, and retire/sell the Oppo while it still has some value. I do have a few older CDPs I could retain as backup, but not sure why I would ever need.

Alternatively, was considering a better combined CDP/DAC like a newer Marantz or Yamaha … upgrades DAC performance some, and a reliable spinner for quite a few more years … but I have very few SACDs, so feeling like this would be the tail wagging the dog.

In what direction have you been migrating?
inscrutable
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georgehifi
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I was referring instead to the overall topic of the thread, which seems to boil down to an endless (and apparently irresolvable) dispute re: stream-ing vs. CDs.
"Who is ditching their shiny disc spinners?" "obviously for another digital source" 

 "And which sounds better" if you ditch the cd, don’t be in any haste yet to do it.

And I’m stating streaming/downloading to a hd, "can" be as good as playing an uncompressed early cd.
If the streaming /download company will give that same early non-compressed cd issue, and not a later compressed re-issue, which is normally the case.
Hence the need for provenance of what version your purchasing from those companies.

Cheers George
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cincyjim
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I have to agree with Jasonbourne52
My CD collection is huge and categorized from 
A to Z. Hard drive gives out I’m prepared.
jafant
18,896 posts
 
Not me by a long shot.

Happy Listening!
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arcticdeth
1,549 posts
 
Physical media is king. 
  As mentioned, knowing I purchased my LPs’, CDs’, cassettes & 8-tracks, and still use my CDs !  Burned the LPs’ not on cd to cdrs’
   

  Plus the crash scenario, hard drives get corrupted, crash,...and when they crash. 
  If you have a lot of music, make a copy of it all to a hard drive, maybe 2 of them. Just in case. 
 It’s a matter of when they crash. 
  Only downloads I have are a few rare tracks from apple store 

majority is all from cd and LP. 


   
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