My CD-player stopped working. Does it make sense to invest in a new CD-transport?

@stievus  "Some say CD still sounds better than streaming"  Well, what do you think?  Do you think CD still sounds better than streaming?  If you do, go on ahead and purchase the transport.  It’s your ears that has to be pleased and no one else.  In my audio system CD sounding better than streaming is mostly not the case.  I’m sure there’s a CD here and there that sounds a little better than the streamed version.  There are no absolutes in high-end audio.  Nothing always sounds consistently better 100% of the time.  However, streamed music in my audio system is so compelling, I do it exclusively.  No more CDs, vinyl, etc. for me.  And in over 30 years, I’ve never been happier.  But, that’s just me.  Happy listening.  

It all depends on your equipment as to if CD or Streaming sound better. Although, in general, if you carefully choose your equipment, at any level CD and streaming will sound about the same for red book CDs. Qobuz offered half a million high resolution albums... so, those can easily sound better. So, it is simple to make streaming sound much better than CDs... more careful and / or a little bit larger investment in streaming. 

The variability in opinions comes from people comparing vastly different investment levels or house sounds or investing in synergistic or non synergistic components. 

But in general, at most levels, careful choice will get you roughly the same sound... sometimes better with streaming. And short and long term it is very worth investing a little more in streaming as you have access to nearly infinite music for almost no cost.