I agree with Charles1dad. We don't need another fight over which is better--there are great examples of both CD players/transports and servers. I have all of my CDs burned to a NAS, because of the extremely convenient access this affords to the nearly 5,000 CDs I have (I still keep the CDs). My server sounds as good as the terrific CD player I use to own (Naim 555).
What is surprising to me is that the sound can be quite different between two servers feeding the same DAC. I heard a shootout between a Sonos server and a slightly more expensive Italian model (I cannot remember the name) and I peferred the sound of the Italian model with both Qobuz and Spotify.