My New CD Player

Introduction

I don't know when, but when I started selling CDs on Discogs I realised that I could listen to CDs while I worked, often taking them off sale when I relistened to them again. One of them just reentered my collection today, this one:

More and more, CDs were skipping, and as I need to check them before I put them on sale I need a CD player that is reliable. Also, I don't like it when the ones in my collection are skipping.

Sometimes it's a finger mark or something, but often the CD looks in perfect condition.

So Why Get A New CD Player?

One other thing that I had seen an advert for a bare-bones CD player which meant you could see the CD playing. The lid of my failing CD player was just black plastic.

While it had a DAB radio, I can get that from other sources and often FM stations are still fine.

The Brandon Flowers CD, I thought would look great spinning, and I thought it would be great to see it playing. Patti Smith's "Banga" is similar:

The slight problem is that while vinyl generally runs at 33⅓ RPM CDs run at 500 RPM so you can't see the the design when it's playing, although I thing something could be done with the design as the Glasvegas one shows a band when it is playing, which you can see on my Instagram post here:

This is the player I bought, and I am listening to "Banga" as I write this.

It advertises Double HiFi Speakers, but while they work they are certainly not HiFi and sound very tinny, and not sure it could be described as a Boombox.

There is no equalizer and functionality is basic, but that is the only downside to this.

The power is via a USB cable and that I can take from my TV set as you can see. I have a pair of old speakers but by using the headphone jack output, I get a more than acceptable sound out of the player.

Because it has a much smaller footprint than the player it has replaced, it means that I have a lot more room on my desk as well. Amazon delivered it on the day I ordered it and, at first I thought I would have difficulty setting it up, but it is now working damned near perfectly.

I was surprised by the number of clear-lidded CD players on Amazon, some being made to look like record players.

Several years ago someone told me I was behind the times because I didn't stream my music from Spotify, and you know my thoughts on those thieving gits. I pointed out that CDs give me convenience and control over what I listen to and where I listen to them. I can take copies of them and put them on my phone to listen to when I go walking.

I also often download music (which I pay for) and burn a CD copy which I can then listen to on my player while I am working. If I streamed the music the artist would get a small fraction of a penny, but by buying the CD, Vinyl copy or download, the artist gets a more than decent chunk of money for their work.

I keep seeing Memes that say roughly "I used to have records but now I am forced to pay to stream music".

Are these people idiots? You can buy the music and play it when you want as many times as you want.

Thank you for reading.

Patti Smith is still playing,