I’ve been using ripped music since 2005. Remember amarra, pure music, audirvana from the mid 2000’s. I sold my $3000 Classe cdp in 2007/2008 and never used a cdp since. I do have a sacd player that’s 20 years old and it doesn’t get used much for 15 years, maybe 5 or 6 times.
Ripped and streaming is where it’s at