Two points. First, for all those who believe that a CD system is superior to a hard drive based playback system, keep in mind that commercial recordings are not made direct to CD. The music is recorded to a hard drive and processed from there. Now a listener may happen to prefer the flavors that the circuitry of a particular CD player adds (or doesn't add) to the playback sound, but there is nothing inherently "superior" about picking up your digital data from a spinning piece of metallicized plastic versus an HDD.
Second, some manufacturers are moving away from CD players for the simple reason is they aren't selling as many as they used to. They feel the future lies elsewhere. That's the way life works. Even fewer companies make tape-based recording & playback machines even though there are some who still prefer the sound of that playback method. Tape is a very small niche market now. History will repeat itself with the CD. CDs still have a lot of life yet as it's still a pretty solid way to distribute music. However, most of the world that actively uses CDs already has a CD player so people aren't buying new ones or upgrading as quickly as in the past. That leaves an eroding sales base that is has become oriented toward a declining replacement market. If a company wants growth in that area, they need to look elsewhere. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ mlsstl's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9598 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=96407 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
