Are all red book cd transports created equal?

Interesting how a simple question can lead to controversy!
@steve59 in answer to your question: get yourself a reasonably good player, preferably used, and use the transport function, teac have good transports btw— or do as suggested above, buy a reasonably priced transport.
Later on you'll will probably migrate to a music library & streaming, but for now, enjoy your music.

Interesting how a simple question can lead to controversy!

Look who started it, a fuser 🤷‍♂️

“Don’t have to, they bring there streaming stuff here and put it in my system, and then are shocked when the same is played on my CD transport.“

Thanks for the laughs...enjoy your boombox 😆

If you have a decent DAC, the Cambridge transport (circa $350-400) is an excellent choice.  I use one, plus a Bryston BDA-2 in the secondary system.  
If  you want superb Redbook playback, the Bryston BCD-3 is a superb player spinner, although a bit pricey. 

I bought a roon nucleus last year and have a sub to tidal. my pre/dac can do the first fold and if I finally understand this a dac inside my dsp speakers does the 2nd fold. I managed to get much of my library loaded into the hdd but still have several  that are unavailable on tidal and my rega no longer can read. The jupiter was better than average in its day, but the last year or so it sounded to me like streaming sounded better, which when you consider all my digital goes thru the same dac makes me wonder if I can trust my ears and the reason I posed the question initially.