A sham? When you see a worthless reply like this, you ignore ignore any replies from this poster in future threads because he doesn’t know what he is talking about.
Like others in this thread, I got rid of my $3500 Classe cd player in 2006 - 2009 timeframe because ripped music sounded better than cd played on a cd player using either pure music or audirvana at the time. Then when I got an A+ rated dac 6 years ago, I sold my $15k TT setup with my 500 albums because digital with mqa, dsd, hires became equal or better than vinyl.