Rediscovery

ALL 3.5 K CD’s and more bit perfect ripped into NAS…. browsing at ipad fingertips….

I have about 500 CDs.  I ripped them to my Innous Zenith streamer and sold my CD player.  I find it very convenient to play a ripped CD from my streamer instead of feeding them into a CD player.  I stream from Qobuz and Tidal, but vinyl and my R2R tapes are still my favorites. 

Always been a CD guy. In fact I just recently picked up an old Elite 101 disc carousel as a backup to my Brennan B2 which I have ripped all of my cd's to. I switch back and forth between the Elite and the Brennan. I have a DENAFRIPS Ares II 12th on the Elite and the DENAFRIPS Pontus II 12th on the Brennan...

I find steaming far more rewarding ,after you spend at least what a good turn table setup would cost Digital sounds better presently I am almost there .

I use a used term8nstor2 dac which is very good ,but the T+A 200 dac is 

in another league over the Holosprings May dac , the best dac under $15k 

at $7200 a bargain and excellent class A descreet  preamp built In between LPS power for your router a must. Linear Tube Audio is the best in class ,on Audiogon $700 a great buy , then don’t go cheap on Ethernet cables ,or usb  just cables are over $3k then a decent Lhy sw8;Ethernet hub for $600 a very good deal

and decent power cords , no weak links in the chain , not having to get up all the time and play QObuz library ,to Roon organizing ,make playlist for any type of music being semi retired now I have to  save for larger ticket items. 
but well worth it .there is a learning curve but just go to you tube.

Streaming rules in my system but CDs and vinyl still have a place in it. And playing CDs requires very little effort in my case. As for for the vinyl medium, reading some of the CDs inserts while listening to them can be a rewarding thing.