wanting to take a digital step


hello, more lately I have been discovering artists on Bandcamp and elsewhere who don't put things out on vinyl. More often new things I have bought on vinyl don't always sound that great.  so with that I want to try a cheap set up of some kind to listen from my laptop connected to my system. I did have some cheap $10 interconnects that did the job, barely. just wondering what some digital vets would suggest. Any simple decent solutions for say <500 that would be ok? I have tried looking on different threads and it got confusing. Do I get a cheap CD player or some kind of better set of interconnects to listen from a laptop. I just don't know.  thank you.

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Guys,

Thanks so much again for all the info it is a lot to digest, I have been really digging into this and starting to make sense of it. I really am a digital and technology doofus.  On a fun note I just figured how to airplay send videos from phone of my son do his bmx racing and dirt jumping thing to the TV for large screen post race debrief sessions and showing what he's up to with the mrs.

@smatsui, I would be interested in how your Enleum and CW4’s play together?
I am considering that combination myself.  If you’d rather message me directly that would be fine.  Thanks.