Any Reason To Buy A Dedicated CD Player?

[ParkerAudio]

With Bluray and HD DVD players littering component towers now, is anyone concerned anymore about playing a CD? And if so what does anyone think about the musical performance of their Bluray or HD DVD player.
Is there any reason to have a dedicated CD player? And if so what kinds of advancements have been made in the past year?
Personally, I think it is tragic that people have become numbed to quality sounding music, preferring many compressed formats, and finishing off SACD and DVD-audio.

 

[Seth=L]

Not many advancements in CD playback have been made for some time. The Blu-ray and HD DVD players would be fine for CD play back. If you are connecting them to a receiver using a digital connection it makes no difference at all, unless the player has tracking problems.

 

[95prelude]

I prefer a dedicated cd player because the cd tray opens and closes imediately, Music starts up quicker. No GUI to mess with. My Pio Elite PD59 is great.

 

[mtrycrafts]

Not many advancements in CD playback have been made for some time. .

That's not what the snake peddles are publishing

 

[mtrycrafts]

I prefer a dedicated cd player because the cd tray opens and closes imediately, Music starts up quicker. .

Like that Ketchup commercial, it's about the anticipation

 

[mike c]

With Bluray and HD DVD players littering component towers now, is anyone concerned anymore about playing a CD? And if so what does anyone think about the musical performance of their Bluray or HD DVD player.
Is there any reason to have a dedicated CD player? And if so what kinds of advancements have been made in the past year?
Personally, I think it is tragic that people have become numbed to quality sounding music, preferring many compressed formats, and finishing off SACD and DVD-audio.

I prefer a dedicated cd player because the cd tray opens and closes imediately, Music starts up quicker. No GUI to mess with. My Pio Elite PD59 is great.

I bought a dedicated CD player exactly for the reasons 95prelude stated. instant gratification!

the toshiba A35 takes an eternity and then some to finish boot up ... (yes, I have the latest firmware)

 

[gus6464]

I am starting to believe more and more that it's all about the DAC when it comes to cd players. That being said I would rather have a cheap dvd player for transport going to a nice external DAC like the Benchmark DAC1.

 

[Rob Babcock]

I think before long I'm gonna pull the trigger on a Slim Devices Squeezebox and bid a fond farewell to CD players altogether. Getting up to change the disc is soooo 1990's! But seriously- I could rip every CD I own to FLAC and stream them all losslessly from my PC. That's like having a 15,000 song mix CD!

 

[mfabien]

My HD-A1 has good DAC's and is a wonderful CD player via 5.1 multichannel analogs.

But I prefer using my Oppo for CD and it plays SACD and DVD-A as well. Again I use the 5.1 multichannel analogs and in the case of the Oppo, speaker level trimming goes from -10 dB to +10 dB which makes it great for subwoofer output (compared to both my HD DVD and BD players which requires me to increase GAIN at the subwoofer). The Oppo gives me a very quick start on anything.

Note: All 3 players output 5.1 multichannel analogs to my Zektor HDS4.1 multichannel switch box.