CD player production ends at Linn

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/8368895.stm

 

Never even hear of Linn

 

"The company reckons that the CD format will continue to be useful as a way of recording and storing music. It claims that a CD recorded onto a hard disk can achieve a higher quality than one played on a CD player."

Something I was saying on this very forum several years ago!

 

it's ironic for a company that once said in a national newspaper that any one that owned a t/t is the train spotter of the industry,
nando.

 

Making a virtue out of necessity.

 

Linn would have staff paint there arses blue if it would make more sales

 

I thought you said that you've never heard of Linn

 

And of course your particular choice of manufacturer wouldn't?

Hifi companies are in business to make maoney. They are not there to uphold the purity of a given audio "philosophy".

All Linn are doing is acknowledging the inevitable. Unlike the LP12, there does not exist a revenue stream of constant expensive upgrades with CD players. They have obviously come to the conclusion that it is not worth spending any development money of a format that is essentially dying on it's feet and whose supply of software is in severe jeopardy.

Chris

 

I thought his comments were a bit naff. My Marantz with its quad DAC and dual output stage and Elna caps trounces an Ipod in terms of sound quality.

I admit though that solid state will always sound better if its lossless and the DAC is the same. Personaly I use all three, lossless, CD and vinyl.

I do think that the CD player is a dying bread, becuase lossless sounds better and so does vinyl so it has made CD obselete.

The entire notion of HIFI is lost anyway, the modern generation of kids are mostly tone deaf.

 

Would be sure this has been in the pipeline for some time.
Digital streaming/home networking 'relies' on a net connection..no? that's something which i wouldn't rely on (relies on others) and feel can't be wholly trusted, just as i wouldn't ever completely trust files on a screen no matter how many the backup, tangible for me thanks .