Is anyone still using a CD Player


I have a bunch of CDs and the Krell 505 player.  I find myself defaulting to my Aurender Streamer and never listening to CDs.   I’m considering getting a CD Ripper and loading them via HSD or SSD card and loading into the Aurender.  Thoughts?  Am I in the dark ages even keeping the CD Player?   

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yes! one i use as a CD player CDP->preamp->power amp->speakers the other i use as a transport into a DAC CDP->DAC->preamp-. etc

I also have a Teac 701t , it's a great player.    Unfortunately it is now about $500 more than  when it launched.      I paid $2300 which is close to max what I planned on spending.   

Not cheap but an excellent player.   Using it with Lab 12 DAC.    I think it is better than my Aurender N200  playing 16/44.1k  streams or files.    

Definitely the best player I've owned by a wide margin.   I find myself using it occasionally but in that system I play more vinyl lately.   

Definitely not giving up the format anytime soon.   There is a period of time when much of my favorite music was only available on CD.   I remember when albums were simultaneously released in Cassette, LP, and CD.   

Cassettes faded fast , LPs kind of lost momentum and there was just the CD if you wanted to own your music.    I often prefer the original CD, not the remaster too so I still have a lot of my favorites in rotation.  

My main issue with streaming is that for whatever reason a company (Tidal, Qobuz, Spotify, etc.) can decide they no longer want to stream the same content they used to, then you're without that music, or the company doesn't stream the CD's you want to listen to. Also, in my opinion most of the time CD's actually sound better than streaming hi-rez. 

I use my CD players from time to time. I received about 600 CD’s from a buddy who passed a couple of months ago. He had a ton of music I don’t know.