Why Purchase A CD Player or Transport ?

+1 soix

SQ better than CD in high res flac files. ‘Or the same if in the same resolution.”per @ghdprentice Some refute this. Each to their own.

And there’s the equivalent of surfing the web but with music on steroids.

As an audiophile I have a PS audio PST and can tell you that it sounds fantastic.

Everybody says : " Is that a CD playing ? Whow" 

All you need is cd-quality and a good system

tomcy6,

where have you been Buddy lot of the new CDs are coming out on 24/96 now, so the recording quality is very good.

Another CDT 6000 user.  I find its sound quality is excellent. I tried Tidal for several years it was very good. However I was really paying to hear music which 95% of the time I already had on CD.

With streaming, artists (but a comparatively few) get paid fractions of what they get from physical sales. That alone keeps me from going into streaming.

Also I find a well-mastered CD sounds well enough. It may be an unpopular opinion here but for me at least there is a line I‘m happy with not crossing. There‘s always better, so I prefer to listen to a sound that already is great and focus on the music itself.