billandsol, the decision is absolutely yours. If you like flipping discs from your extensive collection, by all means buy a quality CD players from the likes of Marantz or Esoteric.
I was in similar situation few years back. Personally I never fancied the idea of ripping my CD's using a laptop or computer. Most audiophiles here may suggest you to purchase JRiver or comparable software and start digitizing your collection. I won't get into how you can digitized your collection. You can search forums here or visit computer audiophile.com for more info.
Now that the industry have openly embraced the digital music, you will find plenty of offerings on CD ripping software, Streamers and DAC's at all price levels.
I would recommend looking into Antipodes DS or DX series players. Great reviews all around and you can expect the quality and worthy stablemate for your excellent Pandora DAC. Antipodes now offer built in support for ROON app, which I hear the next best thing to play your catalogued or streamed music.
Since I have already digitized my CD's on a NAS, I opted to go with Aurender N10 to mate with my Modwright DAC. IMHO, Aurender makes fabulous sounding streamers. I highly recommend Tidal to stream music, once you decided to go digital route.
I am so glad that my CD flipping days are long gone :-)
Hope this helps!
I was in similar situation few years back. Personally I never fancied the idea of ripping my CD's using a laptop or computer. Most audiophiles here may suggest you to purchase JRiver or comparable software and start digitizing your collection. I won't get into how you can digitized your collection. You can search forums here or visit computer audiophile.com for more info.
Now that the industry have openly embraced the digital music, you will find plenty of offerings on CD ripping software, Streamers and DAC's at all price levels.
I would recommend looking into Antipodes DS or DX series players. Great reviews all around and you can expect the quality and worthy stablemate for your excellent Pandora DAC. Antipodes now offer built in support for ROON app, which I hear the next best thing to play your catalogued or streamed music.
Since I have already digitized my CD's on a NAS, I opted to go with Aurender N10 to mate with my Modwright DAC. IMHO, Aurender makes fabulous sounding streamers. I highly recommend Tidal to stream music, once you decided to go digital route.
I am so glad that my CD flipping days are long gone :-)
Hope this helps!