Who listens primarily to Redbook CD?

I'd be perfectly happy to listen to just CD's...but there is a time issue.  I don't want to have to search for what I want to listen to, open the jewel box, pull out the disc, open the transport drawer, insert the disc, close the drawer and then go sit down.  This previous mentioned "procedure" reminds me of how cumbersome photography was in the film only era.

Instead, I've ripped all my CDs to a hard drive that feeds via an Oppo 105D.  The music files are FLAC and organized by genre and then alphabetically by artist. I've tried to compare the FLAC files with the track played via disc and I just cannot tell the difference.  So, for me, it is a no-brainer...put away the discs and listen via scrolling and selecting.  Playback is near instantaneous.

I do not believe in Hi-Rez audio (at least as far as the human ear is concerned) but own a few SACD's which I still listen too.  For background music, Pandora works fine. I left the LP world long ago.  Same issue.  I mean even if LPs are actually capable of sounding better than digital, how many really want to invest in the additional equipment and go through the old school "loading" procedure?

I was raised on vinyl.  I remember I was so poor in college I had no records or player of my own...but my roommates usually did - the set where the speakers would fold out and the turntable would fold down.  Once I graduated and had a job, building my record collection was a priority.  In those days guys would come over and see you collection and go through it. They would invariably say something like: "Dude...cool...you have the new Three Dog Night album, can we play it? " Except the address "Dude" hadn't been invented yet.

So my point is that it was a cool thing to have your "collection" on display for visitors to see...even after the switchover to CDs.  I miss that.  While I love the efficiency of quickly scrolling to find any CD I have on FLAC via my Oppo 105D with attached hard drive, I miss the collection display.

@ electrostacker:

Exactly.  Fidelity ends when the original recording session ends.  Wrapping an analog recording from the 1970's in a 24 bit package does not make that recording have greater fidelity. And ripping a CD to 24 bit does not magically make it sound better than the redbook CD (are you listening Neil Young?). 

True Hi-Rez recordings must be recorded at 24 bit and retained at 24 bit throughout the recording and post production process. Almost all "high-rez" recordings being sold today are not better than Redbook.  Just another scam to get us to buy our music all over again.