Who is ditching their shiny disc spinners?

I just grabbed a Innuous Zenith, but haven't yet bought a HiFi CDP.

I honestly don't really desire getting one with the plan to used the 2TB hard drive of the Zenith.

Innuous Zenith --> Gustard X26 Pro --> Rotel 1590MK2 --> Monoblock Azure 851w --> JBL L100 75th Anniversary (w/dual Kef Kube 12b)

But 100% not giving up my 2,000+ CD's. It would make my wife happy though I'm sure.

Several years ago, I ripped my CD collection (about 10,000 tracks) to an Innous Zenith MKII streamer. It took me a while! I retired my McIntosh CD player and haven’t looked back.

I’ve had no issues playing FLAC, DSD, and streaming via the Zenith to a Matrix x-SPDIF 2 to my DirectStream DAC. I’ve got a decent system and love the way it sounds. I’m finished buying stereo equipment and physical media.

The convenience of having so much quality sounding music at my fingertips was worth the trouble of ripping my collection to FLAC. On rare occasion, I’ll record one of my old school albums (that you can’t find on-line) to my media laptop, burn a CD, and store it on the Zenith. I even went so far as to record a couple of reels that I made back in the 80’s to a computer, burned them to CD, and stored them on the Zenith.

Being able to create custom Roon playlists from Tidal, Qobuz, or anything on the Zenith is pretty neat. I’m 73. At this point in my life, I'm just trying to enjoy the music!

Having spent more time and money building a digital music library and a streaming workflow than I care to admit, I'm now thrilled to have "gone back" to CDs. I had a small collection of about a hundred discs, so I never really left them to begin with, but I was on the verge of doing so, having been seduced by the ease of storage and supposedly better sound quality of lossless digital. Eventually, I realized just the opposite is true. Myself and many others are finding overall CD sound quality to be superior to that of FLAC, ALAC, etc., but not by the numbers, not by any technical assessment, and only if you have quality equipment that can bring out what's really on your discs. Plenty has been written about this and I don't want to hijack the OP's post for another long winded debate.

For me, the other joy of CDs is what vinyl fans have known for a long time. There is nothing better than sitting on the floor with some friends and wading through a music collection, taking time to enjoy the liner notes and artwork, and playing an album through from start to finish. In fact, I set up my listening space with exactly that in mind.

My humble compact disc collection has doubled in size over the last year. I also upgraded one of my old Sony players, and a good one it was, to a Music Hall player that also serves as a stand alone DAC. At the same time, I've downloaded some singles here and there, which is the real value of digital music for me - when I'm not excited about the entire album, I can buy just a few. Because I purchase most of my CDs through places like Bandcamp, I always have free access to an album's lossless files for those times when I want to listen during business hours at my workstation. Some of those files get downloaded to my hard drive, some I just stream with my iPhone with the app. 

I really think there's a place for both CDs and digital downloads in this world. Vinyl, on the other hand, well, no thank you. It has its moments, but they're too few and far between for me. Good luck, and enjoy the music!

Personally I doubled down on a better CDP in the last few months simply because CDs are such good value now compared to vinyl.  I am one of those folks who likes to choose the right tool for the job - so I maintain streaming setups and spin vinyl as well, but wouldn't just abandon one format for another. 

Assuming that you do a proper job of ripping and storing and backing up your files, I would spend the money on a better DAC instead of a player.  I've ripped all of my CDs (around 5,000) to WAV files.

The issue is adding to your collection.  Will you be adding CDs (need for a ripper) or downloading files or streaming to get new content?  A lot of content that is available for streaming is not of high quality; much has been actually re-mastered to lower the dynamic range to makes it better for listening in high noise environment such as in the car or through earbuds while in public, or because a lot of people actually like "loud" music.  If you are diligent, you can actually find older CDs or specialty re-issues that are superior in sound to what is streamed to you.  I continue to add to my CD collection, which means doing some ripping and storing the content.  For that, I have a ripper that has an 5TB built in hard drive.