In 1985 my wife surprised me with a CD player for my birthday. I sold most of my vinyl, packed my turntable away and never looked back. I was on a forum and a guy said he put all of his CDs on his computer and sold them. A short time later his computer crashed and he lost every thing. I will always have a CD or Blu Ray player to play CDs.

I will never get rid of my CD players...yes I own several.

Your video really learns what it entails to stop using CDs and start streaming. But the best (vintage) CD players are definitely up there with modern DACs and sometimes even outperform them. There is also a big plus in not having to use all those computer related stuff in the process. I will stick to using LPs and CDs and then I can use my time to replace jewel cases when needed and to take care of the new shelves I need to neatly store my beautiful collection of music documents.

CDs are coming back! Sales are up, vinyl is getting more expensive, some albums go for $40 to $50 dollars or much much more, new CDs are from $7 to $12 and used ones .50 cents maybe $1 dollar, it is more affordable to get CDs than records, ripping them is great, keeping a good CD player is a good idea just like keeping a good turntable, love all formats including streaming, everybody has their own favorite that's cool, thank you for your videos!

Ripping CDs never appealed to me. The CD and CD player give at least a taste of the experience of listening (to full albums) that records offer. If I'm ripping CDs I figure I may as well just use a streaming service.

Yep nope, I love my Harman Kardon CD player it's been working great for decades now. In fact it works better than professional CD players I've used. Ripping CD's works well for DJing but it's not what I want at home.

CDs and physical media is the future. I like having my CDs on a shelf where I can browse and pull some old ones to listen to on many players around the house. Streaming is only good for previewing an album before buying it. I also collect Tapes. Thats another conversation.

No thanks I'll keep my Cd players and Cd collection.

If you have a descent cd player the quality of the sound is beyond any other media

I guess I will keep my CD player it's simple!

Major issues with your idea:

CD'S are here to stay ! they will have a comeback soon 😍💿

About 30 years ago I splashed out on a Linn integrated amplifier and CD player. They were expensive at the time [about £1,000 each] but somehow I justified the price to myself. My son uses the amp now [it still works perfectly] and I still use the CD player [which also works perfectly]. I guess it proves my grandmother right.. she used to say "you buy cheap, you buy twice".

I feel you! We love our discs, but a small house and tonnes of discs don't match. I've cut down on my records and laserdiscs because of just this problem. Still, there is something special about the act of physically going through a collection, selecting a disc, opening it and playing.

The great strength of CDs is their versatility. The fact that you can listen to them using a CD player or rip them to computer and play them over a streaming device to your hifi offers you options. I still do a ‘mixtape’ approach when ripping CDs and make my own compilations. I usually rip to WAV files probably because I am used to the format when exporting stems of my own music from a DAW. I’ve ripped much of my CD collection to an external HDD in the past, only to find the HDD has died. Bearing in mind how time consuming this is, once bitten springs to mind, but I’ve taken the plunge to do it again as it gives me the choices of quickly finding an album on PC or just reaching up to a shelf picking whatever I fancy and slotting it into a cd player and closing my eyes and listen. At least CD gives me the choice to do this unlike vinyl. Physical media (albums being the best) offer me so much greater an experience than music files. However, just because someone you don’t know from Adam tells you that a format is dead has not persuaded me to sell them all or throw a player into the recycling (I have to admit your argument has its merits, as I wonder how long we can keep CDs/DVD players going in the long term?) I intend to keep my vinyl, shellac, CDs, MDs, 1/4in reels and cassettes for as long as I breathe or have the ability to play them.

I'm a Windows user and have been using Exact Audio Copy to rip CDs for time out of mind. EAC is free! For ripping vinyl I've been using GoldWave and true to his word, the developer has never charged for upgrades over the last 25 years or so. I keep 3 copies of all my ripped music, 2 on USB drives and one on the computer used to play my music with Foobar 2000, also free. While I have a subscription to the Tidal streaming service, the downside to that is the disappearance of titles, something that cannot happen when I own a hardcopy of the album.

No wonder I was able to buy a used $2,000 DVD player Pioneer Elite DV-38A for $100 last week.

My Marantz cd player is now 9 years old, connected to an el34 tube integrated amp and small wharfedale floorstanders, I am very pleased with these well built stereo components. Smooth, warm and detailed music. Heaven!

Not going to throw away my three CD players ever. Streaming is nice, yes you can rip them to FLAC or wav and play them, but I LOVE my CDs and my players. Just bought a new Denon DCD-800ne last year. It sounds great, as good as streaming does with my outboard DAC. And if I ever get a substantially better DAC, I can use the Denon player as a transport. As is stated on forums like Audiogon, to equal the sound of a $600 CD player you need to spend about 3X that on your digital front end to make streaming sound equal to it. Heck, I still play vinyl about 10% of the time and even play well-recorded cassettes. The Denon CD player can also play DSD files via a USB flash drive, something my current outboard DAC can't do. I will say if you are going to rip your CDs to a good lossless format, be prudent and make at least one, if not two backups on separate hard drives that are not connected to your system. Storage is relatively cheap these days while your time and effort in ripping them is not. Still even a small outbuilding can store thousands of CDs and your lawn mower at the same time, even if your house is too small.