CD Player vs. music streaming

If you plan to use Roon and want to take advantage of it's upscaling capabilities, you'll need a fairly robust "something" to run Roon Core.  There are a lot of choices out there, personally, I'd stay way from running Roon Core on a laptop or PC and opt for something designed specifically for it. 

I started with an Innous Zenith MKII running Logitech Media Server.  SQ was excellent and I could use it for whole house stereo combining the Zenith (RAAT) with Raspberry PIs (RAAT) and AirPlay endpoints all into one "zone." 

I decided to try Roon and haven't looked back.  The Zenith can serve as a Roon endpoint and server.  As an endpoint, it is excellent.  It works as a server until you use DSP and upscaling at the same time, where I experienced dropouts.  To solve that problem, I purchased a sonicTransporter i7 for Roon DSP (without an SSD drive) to host Roon Core.  Everything is now working fine.

Had I not purchased the Zenith first and started with Roon, I would have taken a different network media server/streaming approach. Having said that, I'm quite happy with I have and will stick with it for the foreseeable.  That combination works well with my DAC (an Audio Mirror Tubadour II SE).  

You need both , cd and streamer . Streaming quality is inconsistent quality wise. Just my 2 cents worth.

I have a healthy vinyl collection and CD collection of which I have ripped about 60% of the CD's to my server.  I did a lot of homework before jumping into the streaming field and was running JRIver on a laptop to pull my ripped music. 
After attending AXPONA 2019 and seeing the many rooms and use of streamers ( mostly Aurender ) , I settled on an Aurender X100L  w 6TB  of storage ( lovingly used ) . Coupled with its Conductor App and Qobuz I not only have direct access to my ripped CD library, but Qobuz HR has been exceptional in broadening my listening of all genres . The Conductor app also gives you access to a huge base of internet radio stations.  Aurender also gives you free updates and their customer service is exemplary.  
I still love throwing an album on or putting a CD in the transport, but if you have a good+ system , buy a good+ streamer and don't look back.  ( If you have a good DAC get a streamer without one. )   

Happy Holidays & Happy Listening ! 

IMO unless you are looking for the best possible sound which would be a CD Transport and DAC you are probably better off getting a good streamer and a good DAC.  A transport and DAC will probably give you better layering of instruments for classical music if that is your goal but that won't come cheap to my ears.

Happy Listening.

Two people mentioned Innuos. Zenith level $4,500. 
No one mentioned the other burn benefit I hear of.
That is that the downloaded cd SQ actually IMPROVES
when played back as a file. 
WTF you say. Me too. How? It was explained to me by 
the Innuos folks at RMAF last. Too technical for my feeble
mind. 
So Faust-Buy the Innuos, copy all your CDs into it and sign
up with Amazon $13/Mo Hirez. Price will get better over time
for subscriptions thanks to competition. No more money
on CD players unless you buy the Hegel Mohican.
Keep us posted!!!