Compact Disc revisited

[CJG in Wolfsburg]

And your experience in sound?

I’ll post it here when it arrives! It’s currently on its way from Shenzhen.

[CJG in Wolfsburg]

BTW, Amazon Germany currently has it on special offer:

https://amzn.eu/d/1pHsPYC

[RR1957]

Thank you for the advices.
Meanwhile I could change my TivoliCD in a brown cabinet and front
for a black/siver one thanks to my tech friend who 'did' my Quad set.
This one fits better with the rest.
I like this player because of its design done by Kloss of the KLH.
A little design classic. Still a strong point for me too.
So I can keep a TivoliCD.

[Hofnar]

My SMSL PL100 has been connected via a new Douk X1 to a new pair of Audio Acoustic speaker. The amplifiers and speakers are now "burned in" and sound better. So does the CD:s I´m playing. I´m still relying on the bulit in DAC but am so impressed that I´ve ordered one more PL100. If it´s an excellent player it simply has to be a decent transport.

[pde2000]

Interesting. I leant my denon 720ae to my daughter for an art installation and the shock killed it (power supply cooked - bad smell).   She needed to play a usb stick and has borrowed a raspberry pi instead. Am using a blueray player for now but it’s not the same.
CD players are all so expensive. If they only last a few years that’s poor value.

[Hofnar]

Interesting. I leant my denon 720ae to my daughter for an art installation and the shock killed it (power supply cooked - bad smell).   She needed to play a usb stick and has borrowed a raspberry pi instead. Am using a blueray player for now but it’s not the same.
CD players are all so expensive. If they only last a few years that’s poor value.

That´s how I reason. So I chance on this good sounding and cheap version. Should it last, say, five years I´ll be better off than if I´d invested in a five times as expensive player that last as long. Should it survive longer I practically play my CD:s for free (if one doesn´t count the electricity bills...).

[damiena]

I’m now rediscovering my CDs on my Marantz CD-63 MkII K.I signature player. Not a patch on newer top CD systems but good enough for me.

It was loved but had minimal use for a year or two connected to my 60s/70s Japanese amps, until I paired it with an 80s/90s audiolab amp.

Something about era appropriate matching in that for me.

[Hofnar]

Looking back it´s amazing how many CD:s were issued thirty years ago, when the CD phenomenon peaked. Now, with streaming services, the sheer  volume isn´t as easy to notice as it were when there were large shops selling aCD:s in every city and most towns. Also one could buy CD:s everywhere except at the dentist.



This is a typical example, a (then) new label - ARTE NOVA - that launched a complete cycle of Beethoven's symphonies performed by the Tonhalle Orchester Zurich under the baton of David Zinman. The pitch was that it was the first recordings  of performances based on the new Bärenreiter edition by Jonathan del Mar. As i remember superb performances excellently recorded. Tonight I´ll reaquaint myself with the fourth - perhaps the most underrated and my favourite of the nine - symphonies.



Tomorrow I´ll go down in the basement and explore...

[RR1957]

Looking back it´s amazing how many CD:s were issued thirty years ago, when the CD phenomenon peaked. Now, with streaming services, the sheer  volume isn´t as easy to notice as it were when there were large shops selling aCD:s in every city and most towns. Also one could buy CD:s everywhere except at the dentist.



This is a typical example, a (then) new label - ARTE NOVA - that launched a complete cycle of Beethoven's symphonies performed by the Tonhalle Orchester Zurich under the baton of David Zinman. The pitch was that it was the first recordings  of performances based on the new Bärenreiter edition by Jonathan del Mar. As i remember superb performances excellently recorded. Tonight I´ll reaquaint myself with the fourth - perhaps the most underrated and my favourite of the nine - symphonies.



Tomorrow I´ll go down in the basement and explore...

I do not know these.
What I remember from the 80s is the publications of Hogwood and Norrington with their orchestras with authentic instruments. Norrington was praised but also reviled because he used the indicated values ​​for the speed of playing, which were unusually fast. I can still remember the articles in the music and hifi magazines. Hogwood was appreciated more. He sounded a bit warmer.
I still have the entire symphony cd series of Norrington somewhere. I have the piano symphonies of Hogwood in which the correct pianoforte was used for each symphony, which sound much less powerful in the listening range than a modern piano. Both were quite an adventure to buy and listen to in those days.

I have all my cd's of the last century in maps which I store in a box. Makes it much more compact to storage them.

[Hofnar]

Today´s find is this DC, issued 1994 by the swedish state owned Caprice record company. Still, I discovered, in their catalogue. The Liszt B minor sonata is well known but the swedish composer Wilhelm Stenhammar 1871-1927 and his D minor piano concerto, I suspect, less so, at least outside Sweden. As I remember I bought this CD at a concert (but where? Visby?) and I like it very much, especially the Stenhammar concerto.



...and I still haven´t ventured into the basement.

https://capricemusic.se/skivor/

[Hofnar]

I have all my cd's of the last century in maps which I store in a box. Makes it much more compact to storage them.

Storage is a problem. I sold my house (where I had ample space) and moved to a small apartment ten years ago. That´s why and when my CD collection ended up in the basement. I need to go through it and probably discard all those jewel cases. I remember I bought a couple of hundred paper sleeves back when but that project was somehow aborted. Actually I don´t really know how many CD:s I have but I seem to remember that there are about half a dozen (?) banana boxes filled. I guess counting the boxes and how many CD:s there are in one box would be a starting point.

[MarcelNL]

why not simply rip your collection to WAV, storage is cheap nowadays an sound quality is easily better than on a CD player (even when using a generic PC/Laptop and modest DAC)

[Hofnar]

why not simply rip your collection to WAV, storage is cheap nowadays an sound quality is easily better than on a CD player (even when using a generic PC/Laptop and modest DAC)

For the same reason I won´t rip my LP collection and get rid of the records (and my ten turntables).

[simon]

why not simply rip your collection to WAV, storage is cheap nowadays an sound quality is easily better than on a CD player (even when using a generic PC/Laptop and modest DAC)

I've tried a lot of things in both WAV and AIFF from CD (CD_DA),
and while for а most types of music the difference is not easily audible,
and it is o.k. to listen copies, for Classical and Symphonic music,
I would definitely prefer to listen to CD-DA instead of any kind of a file copy.

[Hofnar]

Thank God! It´s Friday! No more work this week and I´ve downed two G&T:s. Things are looking up! In my PL100 a Pink Floyd disc - A Foot in the Door, some kind of best of collection - is spinning. Their albums I have on proper records. LP:s, as we used to call them or vinyls (for the newbies and wannabee crowd).



I didn´t know I owned this CD but found it ]ying on my Pioneer CD-player so I must have bought it sometime in the last ten years. I also found the two CD album Echoes (that I do remember having bought).

My little Douk X1 and the Acoustic Energy are by now properly burned in and the sound is, after said G&T:s, excellent. By excellent I mean that it sounds as good as do my proper records. (Maybe even better but that I´d never admit...). Well, it´s Friday night and I'n enjoying myself.