x5owner1

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Upgrade my CD player or futile effort?
With the rest of your gear I’m not sure why you think a Topping D70 would satisfy you. The Topping D90SE gets much better reviews and is still around $900. And there are SO many more but it sounds like you are just trying to “dip your toe in” to m... 
What speaker has the best tweeter?
I just spent 2 weeks without my Gallo Reference 3.1s (blew a midrange driver in both speakers). Drivers are now replaced with new old stock drivers from a Reference AV center channel. I can’t think of a better tweeter than the CDT tweeter in the 3... 
Streamer question
100% agree with yage69. RPi 4 with a decent HAT and power supply is less the $500. Add a lifetime subscription to Roon and you still have $$$$$ for a better DAC, or amp, or room treatment. There is no better streaming interface than Roon, period. ... 
Music streamers
It’s actually very easy to beat the Bluesound. Rpi4 w/RoPieee XL + Topping D10s + Tidal/Qobuz/Amazon HD streaming directly from your iPhone via AirPlay 2. $200 all in.  
Music streamers
I would suggest a rpi 4 running Ropieee XL for the operating system (~$75 including power supply, passive heat sink case and 32 MB microSD card) feeding a Topping D10s DAC ($99). All available on Amazon. Google search for RoPieee for instructions ...