Who is ditching their shiny disc spinners?

My CD collection is a lifetime's work- a lot bought at concerts and workshops- having to scroll through a screen is an anathema to me- the whole world is full of zombies with earbuds staring at a little glass tablet or spending their day in front of a screen only to come home to he same (or worse be at home all day in front of one as well). What's so hard about using a CD? My Discmaster is still going strong and is a joy to use with the top opening glass lid and magnetic puck. I have a back-up collection of CD players and DACs should the worst happen.

Also a mistrust in placing my custom with streaming services. Discovering new music used to be about listening to the radio with a pen and paper and talking to fellow music lovers, even reding one of those book things or a magazine, not relying on algorithms.

I sold all my CDs, except for remasters and hard-to-find. I'm now 90+% Amazon Music HD and the rest ripped CDs. So I stream from either an Echo device or my laptop through a  S.M.S.L Sanskrit 10th MK II DAC. Go to Audio Science Review to see distortion specs on DACs. You don't have to spend a lot to reach well below audible distortion levels.

I'm happy with both but I'm an American so there ... still think the SACD sounds a little better but who knows ... hehe

I just grabbed a Innuous Zenith, but haven't yet bought a HiFi CDP.

I honestly don't really desire getting one with the plan to used the 2TB hard drive of the Zenith.

Innuous Zenith --> Gustard X26 Pro --> Rotel 1590MK2 --> Monoblock Azure 851w --> JBL L100 75th Anniversary (w/dual Kef Kube 12b)

But 100% not giving up my 2,000+ CD's. It would make my wife happy though I'm sure.

Several years ago, I ripped my CD collection (about 10,000 tracks) to an Innous Zenith MKII streamer. It took me a while! I retired my McIntosh CD player and haven’t looked back.

I’ve had no issues playing FLAC, DSD, and streaming via the Zenith to a Matrix x-SPDIF 2 to my DirectStream DAC. I’ve got a decent system and love the way it sounds. I’m finished buying stereo equipment and physical media.

The convenience of having so much quality sounding music at my fingertips was worth the trouble of ripping my collection to FLAC. On rare occasion, I’ll record one of my old school albums (that you can’t find on-line) to my media laptop, burn a CD, and store it on the Zenith. I even went so far as to record a couple of reels that I made back in the 80’s to a computer, burned them to CD, and stored them on the Zenith.

Being able to create custom Roon playlists from Tidal, Qobuz, or anything on the Zenith is pretty neat. I’m 73. At this point in my life, I'm just trying to enjoy the music!