Who here continues to regularly use a CD player?

My CDR is at the heart of my system. I rarely play any CDs though, I stream through it's DAC and also use passthrough monitoring for my TT because I can attenuate everything to the same level for my preamp tubes. No more changing volume for difference sources. 

In one of my listening setups I use a Denon 1700NE and the other a Marantz SACD30n.  Both of which I use about 30% of the time to play SACDs and red book cds since I have a few hundred of both.  Stream on Tidal and Qobuz the remainder of the time.   I have this thing about actual owning my favorite music.  Can I tell the difference in sound?  I really don’t believe I can

I listen to CD's 100% of the time.  I have over 1000 classical CD's. I do not see the point of paying to rent music I already own,  I have a Weiss Engineering Jason Transport and a Berkeley Audio Design Alpha Reference DAC.  It is important to me to physically own the software and informative packaging without complicating things with streamers and internet connections.

I like listening to music on the medium it was originally recorded on… 50’s / 60’s / 70’s = vinyl. 80’s / 90’s 00’s = cd.

I’ll stream via Qobuz when I want to listen to something new and then decide if it’s something I want to buy or just stream when i’m in the mood.

Happily listening to a Michi Q5. I stream too, but one day Tidal or Qobuz may go out of business, or fall out with record companies, etc. Support your artists who are living and buy physical media, and for those who are passed on, buy used CD’s. They are a perfect medium, don’t wear out like vinyl and you own them. 
 

Darko and Cheap Audio Man have a couple of good videos on YouTube why CD’s are still surging in 2025.