If I rip all my CD's to flac files do I still need a CD transport?

I listen classical , indian and persian etc , half the times, and the other half is less known jazz...

I am not interested in streaming...

Streaming choices is made for occidental masses...

go and look for choices in pygmies chorals choices or gamelan or koto or erhu or sarangi ...

There is more in youtube...

😊

Music first, sound is in second....

And i look more for musicians in any styles more than to a style even in classical; for me all is about interpretation and playing...I listen Furtwangler not classical "per se" ... I listen Mauesberger Schtuz, not Schutz; i listen the children chorus directed by Mauesberger to be precise...

I dont listen folk music more of the time it is boring for me  , i listen Bob Dylan and some others ..

It is why i appreciate many unknowns artists from not well known styles...

Forget styles, listen the playing musician....

Streaming is for genres more than made for music player discoveries...it is my perception ... I never used streaming  and never feel the necessity though then i can be wrong ... Correct me...

Simple...

I had 2 hard drive of 5GB  ... One conected all the time...

The other is a safe...

What happens when your hard drive chashes?  If you have the Cds, you can still recover the music.

10,000 cd albums takes the 4 walls of an average room...

Would you add 10,000 more or rip them all ? My house is a smaller one now...

I ripped them all...

I invested more money in music than in the gear anyway ...😊

I prefer my actual very good low cost system, which is audiophile one believe me, 😊 to a higher costlier one with ten times less music...

I own 100 Chet Baker albums...

I kept 15 versions of Bach art of the fugue... 5 versions of his complete keyboard...

I own rare Indian and Persian music....Streaming this is not possible...

I prefer files format of cd or vinyl....

Many music albums are not even on the market anymore....

I am a music lover first and last  not only an audiophile....

I could not manage many, many , thousand books in my past big house with 10,000 albums.... One part were distributed in many rooms and many in the basement... 😁

I begun ripping lossless music files long , long time ago...I Know that 1000 cd are manageable, 10,000 less so... It is a 4 walls content...Add the many, many thousand books it is many rooms..

Luckily after all ripping , then when i sold my big three levels house, i ended in a one floor smaller one, i had no more cd player for a long time...

And i kept 500 fundamental books for the most part already read...... All the others are in files format with 2 ebook-readers... 😊

We grow old, what we own is memories of all of what we had read and listened to ...

There is no collections keeped under our tombstone... 😁

By the way nowadays with basic acoustics knowledge audiophile experience is at our arms lenght at low cost...

I invested in music albums and books all my life not in expansive gear...

I already know that synergy is important but for decades i had no money to buy gear, all goes in music and books... And trust me specialized books are VERY  expansive...

When i learned acoustics by experiments i learn how to create sonic heaven at peanuts costs ... This begun 12 years ago, but i understood really only with EXPERIMENTS 7 years ago more or less...

This is why my system cost speakers+headphone +4 dacs  1 amplifier  = under 1000 bucks and is a top system in the scale S.Q. /price ratio...

Then think again before throwing money on false upgrade... Especially dac... 😊