CD players = dead?


From an audiophile, sound quality perspective are CD players obsolete? Can a CD player offer better performance than an audio server / streamer? 
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don jr
As a dealer I listened to Bricasti M1 Dac. It didn't take a lot of time to convinced me to become a dealer. With no transport I was burning cd's onto my dedicated Mac Book. Then using JRiver as the software and using my computer for playback. At my age software is not my forte and JRiver is above my pay grade. Not being happy with that set up I became an easy mark for the Melco N1 music library, server. Now I team that up with the Buffalo CD burner. I started by burning a few CD's onto my Melco and then while I listened to music I burn more CD's at a rate of about one CD every 5 minutes. All the software is in the Melco, very simple to use. I purchased an iPod mini to act as the remote. I use the free Music Life software on that IPod. The Melco N1 costs 2k and the matching Buffalo burner ( get one on line at Office Depot ) $169. No a big investment and you can begin to leave those CD's in the shelf. 

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Jim
donjr....

There is a nice review in positive feedback. Two parts that goes into the N1 pretty deep. Not sure this link will work but you can google that review. 

http://positive-feedback.com/reviews/hardware-reviews/melco-ha-n1a-part-1/