CD players = dead?

From an audiophile, sound quality perspective are CD players obsolete? Can a CD player offer better performance than an audio server / streamer?

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lilmsmaggie Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 273 posts 05-12-2018 at 04:23pm Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete Reports of my death are greatly exaggerated. Yours truly, CD player.
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jafant Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 19,737 posts 05-12-2018 at 11:22pm Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete elizabeth You are a lucky Gal. I hope to get a demo of the SA-10 later this year. Keep us posted as you massage your spinner into your system. Happy Listening!
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johnread57 Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 235 posts 05-13-2018 at 05:23pm Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete Elizabeth nice acquisition. My experience differed last week. I listened to the SA10 for the first time at CarltonAudio in Melbourne. It was nice if rather squashed processed sound. Heard with nice cables and the PM10 through a pair of PMC Twenty5 26. Then I listened to an Acoustic Research Reference CD9. I found that unit significantly more open and transparent. It was much nicer to listen to. We changed out the PM10 fearing that was part of the compression experience. It was and the new amp was another step in a better direction. The quest continues.