CD transport vs.streaming

And I am buying second hand cds now at charity shops.... Yesterday 4 for £1.... That is value

why are the best sounding turntables belt drive and all cd players and transports direct drive....oh wait...I just purchased a belt drive cd transport. Slide the glass door back and it looks like a mini turntable. You see the belt itself....The sound you say....well you'll have to audition one to experience a totally new sensation. CEC TL5.

@ghdprentice 

Thanks. Yes… physically owning a disk… paying and storing these is on the way out. I have 2,000 vinyl albums and 2,000 CDs… takes up space and if you don’t steam, confines you to listen and re-listen repeatedly to the same thing… but for the price of one CD per month, you have access to millions of tunes.

Agree. Sold all my vinyl and almost all my CDs (I have about 50 hard-to-find, remasters, steelboxes, etc. left). The sale paid for years of streaming. Got rid of the racks to hold them too. So much less clutter. And my streaming can be totally voice controlled. Try that with a CD. And those millions of songs I now have access to are portable on something I always carry with me - my phone. No ripping required.

@ghdprentice Way back then, in my vinyl days, they said CD’s were the future...

A factor I left out the other day: the quality of the codec that's used to convert from the data stored on a CD or in a file to the stream that travels over the network or through the data path from the CD transport to a DAC.