To Stream or Not to Stream

Jump in with both feet and I promise you will wish you had done it sooner.  But keep your CDs, they are fun to look at and you likely have many that have not been mastered to digital (yet).  I ripped about a thousand of my CDs before I discovered Tidal and Qobuz which both have better sounding Hi-rez versions.  Other than my rare CDs, I wonder if it was time well spent, but I do have a nice safe backup copy of a thousand of my CDs.  One nice thing about ripping your CDs is that it forces you to go through your collection and find the CDs you forgot you owned, which is nice.  I have Qobuz because I like the sound slightly better than Tidal and I really enjoy buying and downloading albums from Qobuz, but either sound great.   The single best thing about streaming and listening to my local collection is Roon.  Roon has shown me so many artists that I never heard of but now love, and it has many other great features.  Roon allows me to easily stream music from mine, and most importantly, my wife's laptop or phone, or whatever we have at hand to any room in my house because I bought cheap Roon compatible streamers to plug into audio gear in every room except the main listening room which got the good stuff.  Guests would think we own an expensive whole house sound system if I didn't ramble on and on about Roon.  Go for it!  You won't regret it.