Replace CD player with Streamer

[Innocent_Bystander]

Only just seen this thread. This may be of interest:

Upgrade thoughts - time to tap into the collective wisdom of the forum

Have you considered changing from CD to streaming music from ripped copies of your CDs held on your own music store? Streaming has the potential to sound better than CD play because it does not need the initial decoding of the data as read from the embedded pits on the spinning CD, and because it does not rely on that encoded removesble disk it will not have read errors nor need error correction algorithms interpolating the data to fill gaps. In addition it opens the door to buying music as dow…

I don’t subscribe to any online streaming service, essentially only playing my own locally stored music, just using free online services such as Spotify and uTube to sample possible new music, buying if I like.