It was apparently on the local news that Linn are to cease production of all cd players due to streaming/downloads.Sign of the times I guess.
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Linn to axe cd players.
It was apparently on the local news that Linn are to cease production of all cd players due to streaming/downloads.Sign of the times I guess.
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Well their DS music servers sound much better than any of their CD players, so I guess it makes sense
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Linn stopping CDP manufacture was inevitable I feel, especially considering the amount of resource they've spent on developing audio streaming devices.
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Yes that was my thought Chris.
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... At the risk of repeating myself...
It's a good move in my books, CDs are shit! All easy to scratch etc ... If these big hifi companies make enough effort hopfully the record lables will start releasing hires download in the same way the linn lable does, or even better. If it was possible to download in a veriety of formats at relative prices I'd be most chuffed! 1 album - £5 in mp3, £10 in cd standard flac and £15 for 24/96 where available. Then once you have bought it, the licence is always available to you so you could re download if the data was lost! ... It's the future, I'm telling ya!!
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I'm certain that I've seen this post elsewhere - deja vu moment methinks.Originally Posted by hamish
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Yeah It was an atempt to drag the convo in to this more apropriate thread!
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Point taken.Yeah It was an atempt to drag the convo in to this more apropriate thread!
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Hot news, Linn say cd is dead, boy I'll bet Sony/Philips et al are crapping themselves
All very well of course and I'm certainly no fan of the bloody things but, what of those Linn customers who bought into cd and spent a small fortune over the last three decades amassing a silver disc based music collection and who wish to continue enjoying same via a (Linn) cdp? Once again Linn Products display their contempt for their past customers, showing only interest in those willing to spend ever more money buying into Linns' vision of the next 'big thing'.
Companies like Linn ignore the legacy cd market at their peril, IMO.
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Linn creates a new line for the CD players : the Kollektor.
I think that Linn simply understood that it could no longer promote (and sell) CD players AND network players at the same time. And that if they needed a more "coherent" public image of digital actor.
I'm still waiting for the broad-market actors (Sony-Pioneer-Denon etc) to start producing decent network players. It shouldn't take much longer, now.
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