CD Player in 2019 ?

[Cobra Jet]

8-tracks, cassette tapes and CD’s......Pfffffffffft......

these were the shit:

and you whiny bitches with your 4”, 10” or 15/17” center stack touch screens.... Pffffft....

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[slowrey]

I love that the B&O system has a CD as I'm old school. I have a 512GB microsd card with all of my music on it however it's all music that I have ripped from my CD> I don't stream any music mainly because I like the audio fidelity of my ripped music. However some days I go buy a CD and pop it in before I get a chance to rip it coming home from the store.

 

[MaskedRacerX]

Thanks, I now have Teardrop stuck in my head.

Yeah, it's great, Mezzanine and Blue Lines are in pretty continuous rotation, and yes, on CD

 

[Clump]

When I was 10 years old I taped songs off the radio on to 8-tracks, geeze I am as old as dirt.

TC

I did that too!

 

[Timeless]

How so, exactly?

I have CDs dating back to when they first appeared on the market, that look and sound the same as they did decades ago. I consider them far more stable than a digital copy....

This is just ludicrous. More stable than a digital copy? Seriously? Rip that CD @ 320K MP3 quality. Copy it as many times to as many places as you want and you will never lose it. CDs can get scratched, are susceptible to temperature extremes, CD players can malfunction damaging the CDs, etc, etc.

its much easier and faster to just download what ya want from a eh um reliable completely legal in no way illegal site where people go that have parrots on their shoulders and peg legs.... can get whole albums in mins in the proper bit rate and directly onto a thumb drive... then buy overpriced concert tickets to support the artist since that is where they make their money from anyway and not the album sales. I mean if you own the album of course. And satellite sucks for music. 1. its sounds awful and 2. you gotta listen to 25 crap songs to hear one good one and can't skip or anything.

I am in no way advocating for any illegal but yes it is out there.

The voice commands work really well. I seldom use the touchscreen.

Agreed, satellite radio doesn't sound great, but I grew up listening to 8 tracks.

Voice commands work fantastic! I could say play artist name and it worked every time or play song name.

 

[pmr2000]

Obviously CD's sound better also but unless you have a high end system in your car not a great environment to notice or apprciate. For portability its great to have everything on a USB stick and phone. Allows me to listen to stuff I have on CDs that I have not touched in years.

I would rank for fidelity:
1-CD
2-USB
3-FM
4-Bluetooth
5-XM
6-AM

 

[Strokerswild]

This is just ludicrous. More stable than a digital copy? Seriously? Rip that CD @ 320K MP3 quality. Copy it as many times to as many places as you want and you will never lose it. CDs can get scratched, are susceptible to temperature extremes, CD players can malfunction damaging the CDs, etc, etc.

Right, because hard/thumb drives are infallible and never shit the bed. LOL. That's why I have backups of my hard drive backups for my music, and a small room literally full of the original CDs.

I've got about 1,500 of my CDs ripped so far, so i get it. Meh, but in the case of a short trip I'd still rather grab a stack and hit the road, feeding a player without taking my eyes off the road and not have to dick with a touchscreen or voice commands that might get me where I want to be.

And, as above, CD fidelity is best.

 

[GT Pony]

I have CDs dating back to when they first appeared on the market, that look and sound the same as they did decades ago. I consider them far more stable than a digital copy....

^^^

This is just ludicrous. More stable than a digital copy? Seriously?

Digital memory (USB sticks, SS RAM memory, etc) go bad all the time.

 

[Timeless]

Right, because hard/thumb drives are infallible and never shit the bed. LOL. That's why I have backups of my hard drive backups for my music, and a small room literally full of the original CDs.

I've got about 1,500 of my CDs ripped so far, so i get it. Meh, but in the case of a short trip I'd still rather grab a stack and hit the road, feeding a player without taking my eyes off the road and not have to dick with a touchscreen or voice commands that might get me where I want to be.

And, as above, CD fidelity is best.

^^^


Digital memory (USB sticks, SS RAM memory, etc) go bad all the time.

You guys sound as old as I feel some days.

Making multiple backups of anything you care about is standard procedure. Hell if you care about it so much put copies in a fire resistant box/safe.

And CDs CAN be ripped at lossless quality (FLAC) but I have never tested to see if those can be played in the system.

 

[Gregs24]

Obviously CD's sound better also but unless you have a high end system in your car not a great environment to notice or apprciate. For portability its great to have everything on a USB stick and phone. Allows me to listen to stuff I have on CDs that I have not touched in years.

I would rank for fidelity:
1-CD
2-USB
3-FM
4-Bluetooth
5-XM
6-AM

Mmmm. Bluetooth isn't a format just a transmission method for digital media so if it is working then it will transmit 100% of the data without any influence on the sound, so USB and Bluetooth with the same original data file should be identical in quality for already compressed mp3 files. There will be an impact for higher bandwidth codecs where BT may apply compression effects but it isn't really going to impact the average mp3 because it is already very compressed.

FM theoretically shouldn't be capable of sounding as good as an mp3 because of the frequency bandwidth limit (30Hz -15KHz). In addition some radio stations manipulate the signal to try and 'improve' the sound for an average radio listener on a poor quality receiver.

We have DAB in the UK which superficially sounds better than FM but only if it is a high quality station. FM suffers from signal strength affecting quality as well as the radio station compressing the frequency range - depends on the radio station. A good FM signal from a quality station can beat DAB if the bit rate is low. But of course DAB is all or nothing being digital unlike FM.

In the UK Sync 3 has the ability to tune to a DAB station and then revert to FM for the same station if the DAB signal fails

We don't get XM

AM is junk !

 

[Jimmy]

I never had CDs. I went from cassettes to MP3s. I have never owned a single music CD in my life. I made the switch to mp3 in 2000.

$120 for a 128 mb mp3 player, I thought that thing was so cool.

Then I used this to play it in my car:

 

[Jimmy]

Totally had those for years. Did you ever have one of the little radio transmitters?

Haha I did buy the radio transmitter, but the audio quality was absolutely horrible so I went back to the cassette adapter.

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