Absolute sound has their high end buyers guide out, and its pretty good.
For a great "starter" CD player they reccomend the 169$ oppo, or its BLU counterpart
for 499$.
And the usual 180,000$ speakers, etc. A GREAT ISSUE.
But one of the more interesting articles is one on computer audio.
Why just listen to CD when you can store your music on a server or computer?
This article in Absolute sound is of course like evolution being taught in sunday school but fear not, a new "power cord" for your gear is one of the cheap fixes listen in another article
so they are not totally off the reservation as far as the more wacky side of audio goes
And of course there is the article "analog lives"! so there you go.
But when a bastion of traditionalism like absolute sound is talking about computer
audio can the apocalypse be far behind?
Just goes to show, CD is rapidly heading for the same horizion that the 8 track
and computer floppy has gone down.
The last CD I bought wasn't even a CD, some kind of funky data disc.
I see cards for ITUNES, SD CARDS WITH music, etc.
Nice to see Absolute Sound at least acknowleging the future death of CD, even if not intentionally, just another dead canary in the coal mine for CD.
iT doesnt even have the nostlagia factor that has kept record players from the hangman.
Anyway this is a good issue, with some decent articles and the usual "stereo porn",
some really lovely stuff.
BTW this is a magazine and you get it at a bookstore, both of which are even more endangered than the CD.