What's a Good Way to Buy Music Collections?

@jhnnrrs 

Denigrating  my experience isn't necessary, my hearing is perfect, I just tested it. 

I'm not going ten rounds in explaining what an FPGA DAC is, thanks.

Qobuz also has a download store where you can purchase music files.

Thanks, I am looking to buy an entire collection.

Picture someone who just bought a new car and found out they do not put CD players in them anymore [true dat].  But you can stick a thumb drive into the USB socket and play that.  

@kota1 

Over the years I’ve gone to garage sales. At the last one, I scored just under 1100 CD’s for $150.00. I kept what I wanted and gave the rest to a friend. I told him to take what he wanted and pass the rest on. I have no idea what he kept, but a few weeks later I found a check in the mail for $100.00.  I tried to give it back to him and he started to get mad! So I ended up filling in my collection with around 200 CD’s for $50.00.

Something else you can do is get disks from the library and rip them. I know someone who did that for years until they had nothing else left that he wanted.

All the best.