Streaming

What is your budget?  Do you have ethernet cable to your rig or Wifi?   What is the CD make and model?  CD player will have a DAC and if it has digital in you can use that.  Otherwise get a streamer with a DAC.

That Khadas has the worst form factor in the world for a HiFi DAC.

Plus it is a headphone amp that you might not want to pay for.

Streaming is for a monthly billable music service. It’s gonna cost ya.

Worse yet it requires an internet network. You have to ask yourself:

Do I want to listen to music or spend my time renewing network handshakes?

You've gotten some good advice on the set-up and how-to for streaming.  The big advantage of streaming music is access to an enormous library of music that you could never possibly collect on your own.  I've got a subscription to Qobuz and their current library has over 80 million tracks.  Compare this to my personal collection  of just over 60,000 tracks.  Qobuz lets me instantly check out new releases, new-to-me artists and composers, along with material that I've read about or had recommended to me.  If I like it, I can mark it as a favorite to make it easier to find again. 

Now, if you're happy playing the same songs over and over, you can skip streaming with no big loss. However, if you still enjoy finding new artists and new music, there is no better way than streaming to accomplish that goal. 

Hi OP,

I’m in the 70’s club as well. Today you can get the same or better sound quality and with streaming and have access to nearly infinite music. It is actually a complete game changer… and you do not need to get up. You can see my systems under my UserID.

Streaming is like all other aspects of audio… you need carefully chosen equipment and you get what you pay for.

If you want equivalent quality to the rest of your system then the streamer and DAC should equal about the same cost as your preamp, or TT, or amp. Or you can take a budget approach and get budget sound quality.

Qobuz is the best service. $14.99 / month gives you access to millions of albums. You plunk down your streamer, turn on, add an app to your iPad and control your streamer from there.

Unless you like to, fiddle with computers, skip Roon, you don’t need it. Life is too short.

For high end look at Aurender streamers, ARC DAC

For toe dipping Bluesound or LUMIX Streamer, and Schiit DAC.