Why Do ~You~ Still Play CDs?

@soix im not sure i fully buy the noise argument. Along those same lines, what about noise from signal transmission within servers at Tidal, transmission to my house etc? The McIntosh CD transport is the shortest and least tampered-with signal IMO. I’ve heard plenty of streamers including on my own speakers (Wilson Audio) at the dealer and to my ears, it’s inferior to CD and vinyl.

I'm a "vinyl guy", but used CDs are cheap and plentiful and nearly indestructible.  Once I have them, I make a backup copy to my network, making it easy to stream them.  They are more convenient than vinyl, you can pause them, skip tracks, etc.  They take up a lot less space than vinyl. 

And I have an excellent CD playback system.  Actually two now, I recently bought a converter to send the audio from my Oppo HDMI out to the i2s input of my Rockna Signature Wavedream DAC.  The Rockna Wavedream NET server also provides excellent CD playback, but it only does Redbook.  The converter lets me play the DSD layer of SACDs from the Oppo through the Rockna DAC.  Some of the SACDs are really great.

Soix I agree $11 is cheap but you still have to buy streamer dac and cables. Though my marantz sa10 can be use on streaming.Again Iam very happy streaming is available.its shows many here play cds because they have good collections and good cd players and dac /transport set up.

Big_greg +1 , you are right on the money. So many great SAcds.

CD's sound better than streamers in my experience, but streamers are far more convenient.