Absolutely, but just as most of us here would advise differently than the vinyl lovers on Stevehoffman forums so will I advise against going down the road of investing more money in CD playback. The Op can do what he wants. I doubt he is aware of the full potential of modern music library software.
He can play his CD library on the road or throughout the house, he can get better sound through advanced EQ and time alignment. He can use VST filters like BACCH and DIRAC without needing to purchase additional hardware. There are some really great options to explore with computer based play back.
All the things that you mention, I know about their existance & what the "benefit" is. But here is why I do not care about them:
Using them involves having a computer in the system or using a phone or phone like device to link to the stereo.
These are things that I turn OFF or at least silence when not in immeadiate use.
Which is absolutely the reason that people like us do NOT want to do it.
So you are wasting your time, as well as the time of us that want our CD players in the system and not a computer in the system to make the system operable (or needed to change a setting.
I deal with computers enough in my daily life, I want my stereo to operate without involving one. Unless it is inside the product, such as the CD player, to take care of it's functions. One of my TT's has computer controlled servos. One has no computers at all. But I do not need a computer (or phone, a type of computer) to make it work.
Obviously, I am not against computers, just against needing to use a stand alone computer to operate my stereo.
Also, anyone that calls me, well I hope they don't expect instant access to me. Because that is not likely to happen. And if you called without leaving a message (unless you are my mother or my wife) you are not getting a return call.
The phone will most likely be in the car or the house & I will most likely to be no where near the phone (or the phone may even somewhere that I forgot where I put it). It is least likely to be on my person.
The phone is for MY convenience, not the convenience of others.
I do not sit around in one spot more than 2 or 3 minutes. If I am awake, I am probably in motion (sitting, standing, walking, doing something other than sitting still. Usually even when eating, I am not sitting in one spot (unless I am somehow at a formal dinner [not likely but it has happened] & being relatively still for that long took great levels of concentration {this is also why most chairs at my house have wheels, so that I can still be moving around in relatively small areas})
If the EQ is not a stand alone DEVICE (such as dbx gear), I am not interested in computerized filters, eq, etc (such as VST, BACCH & DIRAC) unless they are in their own devices and once set, do not need a computer attached to them.
Yes, I know: some of them actually are or can be stand-alone & that is a future project.
I do not want to deal with anything that constantly uses qwerty to access it or operate it.
Guess what:
I know that these things exist. I also know that I am at this time not as interested in them as I am in spending my money on other things (boating, hot-rodding, racing: cars, boats (sail boats, too), horses, overlanding, traveling the world, being out in nature with ZERO electronics out of cell phone reach (with but a GPS locator beacon [I actually intentionally live where there is no cell phone signal]), etc.
I guess that I just enjoy not following what others do (or caring much about how they do it) but doing my own thing.
