CD Alternative

Some great responses/suggestions!  I have stayed with the Cal Audio/BenchMark combo because it is a carousel and of course is convenient and sounds great.  It was also in a hard wired  6 zone "whole house" system which allowed me to play it from anywhere.  This was long before streaming.  I since replaced the hard-wire with Sonos but that is not hi res.  The CD player is part of my two channel system in my designated music room.  I listen to vinyl 95% of the time which also made it easy to age my digital source combine that with golf season when I barely listen to anything!  I no longer need a carousel and would consider a player upgrade and/or employing someone to rip my collection and get a server as well.  I was always impressed with the Esoteric line of players but don't know how current that product is.  I know nothing about servers though. 

Besides the Esoteric, take a look at the current Luxman models.  They're very good also.

Ignore the CD vs Streaming debate, it's an age-old "my generation's version is better" conversation.  Then you have people now buying up reel to reel players to get a more "reel" experience (sorry for the pun).

Streaming is almost a lifestyle change, I never listen to a full album anymore when streaming, if I want to listen to a full album I usually go to vinyl but when I want to stream music it's usually because I want to jump around and listen to multiple types or artists.  I've made playlists for different times of the day or moods, I've also learned a lot about the music I love because of Roon, which is one of the coolest platforms ever for music.

I would say get yourself a Qobuz and Roon subscriptions and a simple streamer like a bluesound node and a new DAC.  Use the transport you have and plug that and the streamer into the new DAC and start experimenting.  

If you like streaming then you've got it but I would look at it as an addition to what you have and not a replacement.

I have a $500 Audiolab 6000CDT transport and my Hegel 590 has a first class DAC built in.  The first CD I ever bought was Ry Cooder's Bop Till You Drop around 1982.  I still listen to CDs about 50% of the time I spend with music, which is about 2 hours every evening.  Despite what anyone else may say, I can't hear the difference between my CD or vinyl collections.  You don't need to break the bank to buy some very respectable equipment and will let you continue enjoying your CD collection.  Why go any further than that?  

Not listening to a full album at a time was a problem I used to have until I upgraded my streamer to raise the sound quality to CD (I have a very good CD player); nearly vinyl quality. Now exactly the opposite happens, I’ll start listening to something I normally would not like, but just can’t stop listening because it sounds so good.

“Tune Surfing” is the result of unsatisfying sound quality. Typically it has to do with the gestalt of the sound (typically lack of rhythm and pace, possible high noise floor, high frequency hash). My digital end now is just as satisfying as my analog. Start something and I can’t pull away.