From: martin@mydomain.invalid   
      
   On Sat, 13 Apr 2019 11:42:27 -0700, The old geezer wrote:   
      
   > Martin:  they still do sell cd players!  I have a Sony CE-375 which is   
   > going on about 11 years old now.   
   >   
   Mine is a rather nice Sony 338ESD. These still change hands for goodish   
   money because they're built like brick outhouses and over here are still   
   valued by hifi buffs. I think the read head (LED and photocell) may be   
   failing.   
      
   > Since I have around 1,000 cds I will most likely purchase another one.   
   > My home is all wired for sound hooked up to my “entertainment center”. I   
   > started buying 45 rpms & 331/3 vinyl back in 1964. Then in 1981 I put   
   > them all on cassette tapes.  Then switched everything over to cds in   
   > 2000 & sold/ gave away all my vinyl.  That’s it!  I ain’t going on any   
   > further.  Yeah, I have music on my old computer but that’ll be dying   
   > soon.   
   >   
   My setup is probably similar, but smaller since I only have a small   
   house. Sound is based round a Quad 33/303 I've had since 1979, with an FM3   
   FM tuner and a Logitech Touch that controls the music server on one of my   
   computers and converts streamed music into audio input for the Quad 303   
      
   You don't need much computer to do this: a GBP 35 RaspberryPi can easily   
   act as the music server, though I'm using a 20 year old whitebox PC   
   because I have it and its working well.   
      
   > It was all the 4 lads from Liverpool’s fault!!   
   >   
   I got the music collecting bug a bit before those lads arrived - via   
   Peter,Paul and Mary, then Bob Dylan and jazz. My boost into (prog) rock   
   came from hearing the whole of ELP's "Pictures At An Exhibition" played   
   on the radio one Saturday afternoon. I only got into FZ when some chums   
   played me JG vol 1, so quite late, soon after I got back from a rather   
   long drive round parts of Asia - I missed most of the Punk era because of   
   that.   
      
      
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