Not going to lose any sleep over it. Having music on a flash drive works very well and eliminates the need to carry a bunch of CDs.

 

Many Corvette owners appear to be old, nostalgic, and stuck in the past. Missing CD's is just as bad as those wanting to 'reject' a hybrid powertrain.

 

Now you've went and done it. Just mention a cd player and you're branded for life. You must be old, out of touch and more than likely senile. Gotta go, here come the music police.

 

If my 15 had a CD player, I might not be paying for XM.

 

I wish they made the CD player optional on the C7. I think the Corvette is the only car that doesn't have the CD player.

 

Not true, deleting the CD player is a trend that's been going on for the last couple of years.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/...ppear/2601827/

 

Old technology..just like the cassette players. After discovering the benefits of the thumb drive, I could never see going back to or even using a CD in a car. More storage and easier access to artists, albums and genres. Just having the CD albums in the car was a PITA.

Sonically, the CD may be better in a perfect listening environment, but a car in traffic, the "thumb" is perfect for my tastes.

 

 

My 2015 MINI Cooper doesn't have one. Test drove a M2351 BMW and it didn't have one either. I'd check some of the other 2016 cars too, most offer USB and no mention of CD players.

 

There is a difference between benefit and convenience.

CDs are more convenient than vinyl, but even SACD does not approach the sound of vinyl. If you are an audiophile and/or musician and/or attend live performances and/or have excellent hearing, you really enjoy vinyl recordings.

Similarly, tube (or valve) amplifiers are markedly different in sound from solid state amps which tend to be edgy. Try Country and Western Ray Charles ("You Are My Sunshine") on vinyl and tube electronics.

I was a hi-fi enthusiast when solid state Macintosh and Marantz were introduced. I abandoned my tube equipment. Live and learn.

When CDs were first introduced in the early 80s, they were seen as a technological marvel. Soon golden ears heard how harsh they were. A good example is the early release of Abbey Road which many found unlistenable. In contrast the SACD of Darkside of the Moon was sonically quite good.

Solid state media such as CF, SD and USB has made transporting music more convenient. They have that as a convenience. They are not sonically accurate, but for some types of music and in some car environments, few care. The CD vanishes from both cars and stores.

So we have chosen convenience over sonic benefit. We prefer to buy per song rather than have album art. Fewer people sit in their listening rooms and absorb music.

Musicians do.

 

I miss having the convenience of a CD player. I still buy my music one CD at a time so that I can get the best quality out of each recording. I personally enjoy the experience of listening to entire "albums" just as the artist intended. Having to go to all of the trouble of writing the files to a flash drive and then getting all of the ID crap to work properly is a real time-waster in my opinion.

I've transferred some of my music to flash drive, and I use XM and Pandora too. Without Pandora I would miss the CD player even more.

 

I do not use the home theater for music.

I play music in the family room.

I can play SONOS over the stereo or a device connected by Bluetooth or a solid state device (SD or USB) or a CD.

The difference between the three with regard to sound is quite marked.

That said, some of us do not drive our Corvettes to listen to music but simply enjoy the sound of the car itself.

 

I did not like it at first, but I learned how to transfer my music from CDs to a USB drive.
Old chicks can learn new tricks.

 

You guys are too funny. We all have to evolve.


Just realize that we can put MORE MUSIC on a stick! Plus a stick takes up less room than CD's do!


And as others have said above, a lot of other cars have eliminated CD players. Just like the clutch and manual transmissions, the CD's are going away. I guess we all have to live with that reality.

 

if any one of you old geezers want to know how to convert YT (that's You Tube) vids to MP3's then transfer it to USB feel free to ask.

 

If anyone subscribes to Apple Music and your car is equipped with car play...The coolest thing is asking Siri to play either a song or an artist and it plays. It's the equivalent of having a record store at your fingertips. No need to own, download, rip, copy or mess with anything. just make sure you have plenty of data on your plan because it sucks it up pretty fast.

 

current technology used by GM in the Corvette does not allow for Nav, USB, satellite radio and CD player together. It's possible in the next couple of years the system may be upgraded to allow a CD player option. I'm sure the space behind the screen was actually designed and intended for a CD changer. I don't miss it---never or hardly ever used it in other vehicles anyway.

 

In shopping for a replacement stereo for my truck, many, including the Kenwood I bought, had no CD player. Considering my modern music collection is mostly what I have on my iTunes and Apple Music, I don't miss the CD player.

 

When you consider the average age of a Corvette owner, none of them have ears that can discern things like the higher frequencies. It's just a fact of nature. Of course they'll bitch and moan ("Get off my lawn!") that they still retain the ability to discern between the fidelity of such systems just like some wine snobs will insist, in a blind tasting that the two buck chuck is better than a wine vastly more expensive.

As a musician of some 40 years, yes I prefer to buy the music and forgo the album art as the music is the point! When I'm in my car driving I want to hear music. If I want to see art, I'll drive to a museum.

And the fact that I can have all of my music at my fingertips in the car to choose from is great and has nothing to do with higher fidelity systems that produce frequencies my older ears cannot hear, nor would hear given the loud environment of driving down the freeway anyway.

Or should I be suing GM for not including that buggy whip to whip all of those horses? Fergit the wave - save the buggy whip!

 

Well, I disagree, because basically just about any 2016 car has a CD player either std or avail as a dealer option. You would have to look hard to find more than a couple that don't. Another thing, and we can probably agree on --I've never known Chev/GM to be on the cutting edge of technology, so why would they be the first to discontinue this arguably but still seemingly somewhat popular item in this car? Again, this doesn't directly affect me, I very rarely play CD's anyway.