OP
Did your CDs survive the fire? Do you have a large collection? Are they not backed up to a HD? If the answer is yes to all 3 questions, then it seems like you will want a CD player. Unless, of course you are ready to ditch the CDs and go with a streaming service.
If you are undecided about replacing CDs with streaming, I would suggest buying a decent inexpensive streamer such as the Bluesound Node2i before buying a CDP. Try one or more streaming services—they all have free trial periods, and the Node2i works with with all of them. It has a decent DAC included, probably about the same level of quality as your old CDP.
If you decide that streaming works for you, great. If you miss CDs, then buy a CDP, and use the streamer for the Internet Radio and perhaps Bluetooth functionality .
CD players will continue to be sold. To many people have large collections that they want to play and CDs will still be sold on line.
Personally I would put most of the money in a good DAC that can be used with all digital sources
Did your CDs survive the fire? Do you have a large collection? Are they not backed up to a HD? If the answer is yes to all 3 questions, then it seems like you will want a CD player. Unless, of course you are ready to ditch the CDs and go with a streaming service.
If you are undecided about replacing CDs with streaming, I would suggest buying a decent inexpensive streamer such as the Bluesound Node2i before buying a CDP. Try one or more streaming services—they all have free trial periods, and the Node2i works with with all of them. It has a decent DAC included, probably about the same level of quality as your old CDP.
If you decide that streaming works for you, great. If you miss CDs, then buy a CDP, and use the streamer for the Internet Radio and perhaps Bluetooth functionality .
CD players will continue to be sold. To many people have large collections that they want to play and CDs will still be sold on line.
Personally I would put most of the money in a good DAC that can be used with all digital sources