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What is the point of expensive CD players?



 
 
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Old November 22nd 17, 09:33 AM posted to uk.rec.audio
Jim Lesurf[_2_]
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Default What is the point of expensive CD players?

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Don Pearce wrote:

Transfer to SSD has to be the answer to all these issues.


Once you've done the transfer. :-)

Alas, that then gives the metadata problems like not having the printed
leaflet handy, etc.

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Old November 22nd 17, 12:21 PM posted to uk.rec.audio
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Default What is the point of expensive CD players?

On Wed, 22 Nov 2017 10:33:21 +0000 (GMT), Jim Lesurf
wrote:

In article ,
Don Pearce wrote:

Transfer to SSD has to be the answer to all these issues.


Once you've done the transfer. :-)

Alas, that then gives the metadata problems like not having the printed
leaflet handy, etc.

Jim


As long as you are online, all that metadata is available with no
effort. Anyway, there's nothing to stop you keeping the sleeve notes -
and the original disc .

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Old November 22nd 17, 03:51 PM posted to uk.rec.audio
Jim Lesurf[_2_]
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Default What is the point of expensive CD players?

In article , Don Pearce
wrote:
Alas, that then gives the metadata problems like not having the printed
leaflet handy, etc.

Jim


As long as you are online, all that metadata is available with no
effort.


In general, I play files with a simple audio player without using a browser
or web. So you condition essentially returns 'false' for me.

I do now have a 'DAP', but of course when this will be used, it isn't
connected to the net or any wireless, etc. So again, would return 'false'
as above.

Anyway, there's nothing to stop you keeping the sleeve notes -
and the original disc .


Scanning it is the problem. Otherwise if you have to find the CD booklet,
so you may as well keep the CD with it and play that. :-)

In general I've not bothered to rip CDs. More useful from my POV to make
transfers from old LPs. The resulting file *is* more convenient to play -
particularly if I'm in the kitchen, say. And also lets me deal with
'clicks'.

Jim

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Old November 23rd 17, 08:22 PM posted to uk.rec.audio
Vir Campestris
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Default What is the point of expensive CD players?

On 22/11/2017 13:21, Don Pearce wrote:
Anyway, there's nothing to stop you keeping the sleeve notes -
and the original disc .


I've still got some gatefold LPs. They've been digitised, and the
recording cleaned up - but there's a lot to be said for a 24"x12" image...

Andy
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Old November 22nd 17, 12:55 PM posted to uk.rec.audio
Richard Robinson
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Default What is the point of expensive CD players?

Jim Lesurf said:
In article ,
Don Pearce wrote:

Transfer to SSD has to be the answer to all these issues.


Once you've done the transfer. :-)


The good news is, you only need to do it once.

Alas, that then gives the metadata problems like not having the printed
leaflet handy, etc.


Strictly speaking, that's not 'audio' ? ;-)

It's a point - but then again physical media have a metadata problem, too :
"you can't grep dead trees". Tagging Is Good.


As a clarinet player with no background in sound engineering, my concerns
are maybe a little off-centre here, but it's a very interesting thread, even
if I can't keep up - especially since I've been playing with 'making a
recording'. So this 'concert-hall' digression is intriguing for me. From the
POV of an instrumentalist with no-one to tell me what I should be doing, I
reckon I know what my instrument sounds like (if I'm playing it as nicely as
I can), better than any third party could, and _that_'s what I want people
to hear. It's a very idealised version of "reality" - I'm rather shocked at
how many little glitches slip through in my live playing (it's "the ill wind
that nobody blows good", like most wind instruments).

If anybody wishes to read my "off-centre" above as "eccentric", that'd be up
to them ...

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Old November 22nd 17, 03:52 PM posted to uk.rec.audio
Jim Lesurf[_2_]
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Default What is the point of expensive CD players?

In article , Richard
Robinson wrote:

If anybody wishes to read my "off-centre" above as "eccentric", that'd
be up to them ...


No worries. We're all barmy here. Entry requirement. 8-]

Jim

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