Best Way to Upgrade Digital


I have over 3K CD's and I am building a new system & not sure what is the best way to set up my digital.  Should I get A DAC & CD Ripper or a CD/SACD?  I'm leaning towards a CD Ripper with a DAC, given the number of CD's I have it will make it easier to play them & store tehm.  I have an old Benchmark DAC1, should I use this with a ripper?  Or get a new DAC? Do I need to update my Benchmark DAC?  Or should I just get a CD/SACD?  Trying to keep cost under $1,200 if possible.  Technology is changing so rapidly, that I don't want to spend lots of $$ for something that may be absolete or wothless in a couple of years.  Any suggestions?? I do own a Blunode Streamer, sounds ok, hoping the CD's will sound better.   
nyrican

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A little setup is required and once you work out the naming conventions you want your music ripped to, you simply lookup the inserted disk on the online database, it fills in the names of tracks without the need to type, select the album cover and go do whatever you want and come back in 10 mins.

It has built in checking of data integrity and checksum, if you're not getting 100% perfect rips, you can polish the disk for another rip of just the songs and write over the imperfect rip.

I use a laptop, rip new discs to a USB stick and drop in into my server when I am ready.

You might want to rip the ones you want to listen to most, and while you're having a listening session, do a dozen every couple of days, most enjoyable to least enjoyable?