Hi-fi stalwart Linn is to stop making CD players. From 2010, the company will cease production of CD player manufacturing to concentrate on digital music streaming systems. Linn says it is the first manufacturer to make this landmark move, which is: "testament to the supremacy of digital streaming technology".
   Gilad Tiefenbrun, Managing Director of Linn Products Limited, comments: “Our customers have fast recognised the limitations of CD players and in the age of home networking, people now want better control of their music and the ability to enjoy it in any room of their home.”
   Sales of Linn's DS range of digital music streamers are said to have far exceeded those of its CD players in recent years with a Linn spokesperson adding: "DS along with its many other advantages makes it clear that CD players no longer belong in the specialist domain." 
   Linn is famous for creating the Sondek CD12 - which it describes as the best sounding CD player in the world.