CD player advice

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A year ago I bought a vita audio iPod dock with dab for the living room. I chose the one without a cd player because (1) price (2) the dock without cd is smaller and fits the space better. Anyway a year on and I am listening to CDs off a worn out Panasonic portable cd Walkman type player plugged into the front of the vita. I would like a decent quality cd player that would compliment the vita connected via the rear aux in. The vita could sit on top or I could put it on the shelf below but I am looking for something unobtrusive but which would give a quality compatible with the vita. Advice welcome....

 

[tino]

A year ago I bought a vita audio iPod dock with dab for the living room. I chose the one without a cd player because (1) price (2) the dock without cd is smaller and fits the space better. Anyway a year on and I am listening to CDs off a worn out Panasonic portable cd Walkman type player plugged into the front of the vita. I would like a decent quality cd player that would compliment the vita connected via the rear aux in. The vita could sit on top or I could put it on the shelf below but I am looking for something unobtrusive but which would give a quality compatible with the vita. Advice welcome....

Rip your CDs using a PC to MP3s (or similar) then put the music onto an iPod classic (£160) and plug that into your Vita dock.

An iPod Classic can hold loads of music and this would be a much neater solution than buying yet another large box that you have little space for

Like so ... but maybe not in pink ;-)

 

[Anonymous]

This is going to sound weird but I have a couple of iPods chock full of tunes which I normally put through the dock, but I have had a bit of a proustian rush lately just enjoying taking a single cd out it's box and playing all the way through. No shuffle, cd box and book in hand just like the old days! I had a brainwave after posting this. I have a twenty year old five disc cd player, part of a Sony hifi system which is sat in a spare room waiting for the knackers yard. I have just recycled and set up the cd so am now a happy bunny. Sill fancy a newer one though but wondering if there is any point quality wise as I am running it through the Vita so I guess any quality gain of cd over mp3 (or AAC in my case) would not be noticeable?

 

[tino]

Glad you've sorted your CD problem out. I'm not sure it's worth spening big bucks on a new or used CD player if your plan is to play through the Vita as that will ultimately limit the sound quality.

PS You could still play a whole CDs worth of music through your iPod and flick through the CD sleeve notes as well as you are playing your pretend CD

 

[Anonymous]

Thanks Boss. Don't know why but I have just got fed up with the iPod. Maybe just a change as good as a rest type of thing, it will probably wear off next week so you are dead right, keep my money in the wallet