Who is ditching their shiny disc spinners?

I'm perfectly happy with my Mojo Audio DAC and SimAudio CD transport, they aren’t going anywhere. My head spins every time I read about what folks go through to get top notch streaming sq, from segregating certain equipment in a different room, to multiple components and cables in between before you eventually get to the DAC. Glad that "the process" works for them, it’s just not for me. The one downside for me to not streaming is that there are some artists that only provide there music via a service.

Restore from the two backups 😁

But yeah, I’ve been a physical media hoarder too, and still buying. I’ll at least hang onto one of my lesser players to use as transport if ever needed (Oppo BDP-83 and/or Alex Peychev (APL) modded Pioneer DV563A

No sir. I still love the physical media, reading the liner notes, and having the BIG collection to choose from. Perhaps upgrading the player! NOW were talking.

I would keep one SACD/CD player active in the system, remember to use it occasionally to keep it’s lubrication/moving parts from becoming problematic from disuse.

I did LP’s exclusively for over a year, then I bought an Oppo 105, and re-discovered many great CDs.

Compared prior player to Oppo. It too sounded amazing. Kept it, prefer it’s smaller size, features and remote, sold the Oppo. I don’t stream.

I realized, the CD’s sound amazing, better than ever, because of all the other improvements I made:

new power filtering
new 6 nines copper: speaker connectors/silver solder; speaker cables; spades; interconnects with locking rca connectors
new 16 ohm L-pads in speakers (replacing incorrect 8 ohm pots).
re-coned 15" woofer
new gold rca inputs for vintage preamp

Any CD Player you keep will get the benefit of any future improvements.

I buy LP versions of favorite amazing music, they most often beat the CD, but I’d rather buy ’new to me’ music than churn LP version for CD version.

did I forget to mention, I have a heck of a lot of CDs.

@jperry using the DAC in the Oppo, not the bluesound, and/but wanting to upgrade that too. Eyeing the Audio-Gd R8MkII R2R DAC. It’s that OR if the DAC in a new Marantz or Yamaha CDP is enough improvement. Think that’s doubtful.