Who listens primarily to Redbook CD?

My primary source although not necessarily my go to is FM radio via analog signal and professionally serviced and upgraded when necessary  FM tuners from the golden era .  Reception optimized by rooftop FM only rotatable antenna.      Were I not in the SF bay area and unable to utilize radio waves from what IMHO is some of the best FM left in the country   I would be listening via online.  Although  I have to say Redbook cd shares primary source duty with FM  and  I will naturally go to it when nothing of interest is available via analog signal or it will just be my main listening for the day as well.   And,  I will emphasize that a great part  of my collection of Redbook is what I have heard on my local college FM station which in effect surpasses  anything I have heard over many years of listening to FM --since the 60's covering most all genres .      I take special liking to my transports which are all 90's units which use the last of the best Philips mechanisms.  Rotel--CDM9, PSA Lambda-CDM9/pro,   Museatex  CD-D--CDM1mkii  Museatex has been upgraded by Stephen Sank.     My dacs currently are  Burson DA160,  Metrum NOS mini dac,  Shek D2 .  Vinyl  set up as well.  

I'd be perfectly happy to listen to just CD's...but there is a time issue.  I don't want to have to search for what I want to listen to, open the jewel box, pull out the disc, open the transport drawer, insert the disc, close the drawer and then go sit down.  This previous mentioned "procedure" reminds me of how cumbersome photography was in the film only era.

Instead, I've ripped all my CDs to a hard drive that feeds via an Oppo 105D.  The music files are FLAC and organized by genre and then alphabetically by artist. I've tried to compare the FLAC files with the track played via disc and I just cannot tell the difference.  So, for me, it is a no-brainer...put away the discs and listen via scrolling and selecting.  Playback is near instantaneous.

I do not believe in Hi-Rez audio (at least as far as the human ear is concerned) but own a few SACD's which I still listen too.  For background music, Pandora works fine. I left the LP world long ago.  Same issue.  I mean even if LPs are actually capable of sounding better than digital, how many really want to invest in the additional equipment and go through the old school "loading" procedure?

CD cost is a problem?

Yes. Even in bulk (500?) quality CDs are .25 each. In my case I have 3500, literally. Why continue down that path instead of playing the file directly (i.e. without having to burn to CD)? Couple that with the fact that CDs deteriorate and one should at least ponder the question, why throw money away?

@desktopguy--- Im checking online re/that NOS 19- you do seem really impressed with its performance.  Im wondering what other units on the market use that design?   To clarify---your referring to a NOS 19  as well as one that has oversampling?    Wouldn't they have different model #'s?

I meant to get the source music.

Not sure why you are burning CDs?

BTW, I use iTunes and rip to Apple Lossless.  For CDs with HDCD on them I can still use my Cal Audio Player.