Why Do ~You~ Still Play CDs?

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.

I have a friend who told me the same thing cd sounds better than streaming. I ask him why ? He said too much upsampling on the streaming because of that the music no longer sound natural. I don’t know if this true?Actually his step son in law came to visit Him from out of state.He bought many cds because he said cds sound better than streaming on the systems he heard.