Looking for a CD Player

@richardbrand

Well, you can certainly make the choices you want to make. I consult for a company that produces digital media, both hard and soft, and over the past 15 years I’ve witnessed hundreds of palletes of returned CDs headed for the landfill, because nobody wants them. And that's just one very small company.  Fortunately that practice is on the decline. And I could be wrong, but I don’t believe CDs count as "sequestered carbon," at least not at the moment. There are efforts to turn sequestered CO2 into plastics, but as far as I know no currently manufactured CDs are made that way.

As for the internet, there’s another horse out of the barn. Might as well object to radio or TV.

@dogearedaudio 

Sounds as if your company uses CDs for software distribution or archiving?

Sequestered carbon means the carbon is locked up, not that it can be recycled!

You presented streaming as the eco-friendly alternative.  I am suggesting this is a furphy (Aussie slang for an erroneous or improbable story that is claimed to be factual).

At least, radio and TV are broadcast services (forgetting the internet versions!).  The last service to stay up and running in a bad bushfire is public radio, provided you have a battery receiver.  I was in Canberra when we lost several lives and 450 homes.  The firestorm was fierce enough to create its own thunderstorms.

The first thing occupying or revolutionary forces head for is the TV / radio station. The internet appears to be equally fragile.

I have no issue with the internet as a medium for distributing files but strictly speaking, that is not streaming.

I love SACD and have 3 players and several hundred SACDs.  I listen pretty exclusively to Classical and we have kept SACD alive.  However the OP didn’t mention his tastes and apparently owns no SACDs.  Just trying to keep it simple for him best serve his needs