Why Purchase A CD Player or Transport ?

but I have a hard time seeing a commensurate increase in sound quality from a good DAC/streaming setup to a $5k CD setup.  

@tylermunns I did too until I actually got my dedicated streamer up and running.  My streaming quality now far surpasses that of playing CDs.  Not even close. 

+1 soix

SQ better than CD in high res flac files. ‘Or the same if in the same resolution.”per @ghdprentice Some refute this. Each to their own.

And there’s the equivalent of surfing the web but with music on steroids.

As an audiophile I have a PS audio PST and can tell you that it sounds fantastic.

Everybody says : " Is that a CD playing ? Whow" 

All you need is cd-quality and a good system

tomcy6,

where have you been Buddy lot of the new CDs are coming out on 24/96 now, so the recording quality is very good.

Another CDT 6000 user.  I find its sound quality is excellent. I tried Tidal for several years it was very good. However I was really paying to hear music which 95% of the time I already had on CD.