OP
there is no reason why you “have” to rip your physical media and play it from a streamer. It isn’t obsolete. I’m not a vinyl guy, but it’s making a comeback, the turntables and amps out there are a huge step better than what you had growing up. As far as CDs,the difference between playing digits from a spinning disc vs a hard drive isn’t much. This being an audiophile forum, you will get people arguing to the death that one sounds better than the other, but it boils down to ?which CDP vs which streamer?
It is more of a Lifestyle issue. With streaming you don’t have to leave the couch, and you can save space if you discard the physical stuff. Otoh, you get all the IT issues with streaming, with streamers not being recognized by home systems, ISP throttling bandwidth, dropouts, etc. if you are comfortable dealing with networking issues, you might think no biggie. I am older than you, and IT issues are my biggest hassle at work. I hate coming home and finding that all the boxes in my music system which played so nicely the day before now are in a snit and not talking with each other. Re: Your comments about the Node2 . You didn’t need to buy it.
You can stream direct from a computer to a DAC that accepts USB
(you do have a DAC, right? Check for inputs on your CDP if you don’t).
there is no reason why you “have” to rip your physical media and play it from a streamer. It isn’t obsolete. I’m not a vinyl guy, but it’s making a comeback, the turntables and amps out there are a huge step better than what you had growing up. As far as CDs,the difference between playing digits from a spinning disc vs a hard drive isn’t much. This being an audiophile forum, you will get people arguing to the death that one sounds better than the other, but it boils down to ?which CDP vs which streamer?
It is more of a Lifestyle issue. With streaming you don’t have to leave the couch, and you can save space if you discard the physical stuff. Otoh, you get all the IT issues with streaming, with streamers not being recognized by home systems, ISP throttling bandwidth, dropouts, etc. if you are comfortable dealing with networking issues, you might think no biggie. I am older than you, and IT issues are my biggest hassle at work. I hate coming home and finding that all the boxes in my music system which played so nicely the day before now are in a snit and not talking with each other. Re: Your comments about the Node2 . You didn’t need to buy it.
You can stream direct from a computer to a DAC that accepts USB
(you do have a DAC, right? Check for inputs on your CDP if you don’t).