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I'm ok with CDs.

I'll buy CDs of digital era music not available on vinyl or very costly on vinyl (especially from artists/music new to me). I rip them to a hard drive and use that as the source of digital music to my audio system. Sounds better to me than playing CDs even if playing through the same DAC. Also will make digital copies of my vinyl for the digital music library, that also includes a collection of downloads of lossless concert recordings. The vinyl rips sound good too but for the best sound from my system is usually from the TT. The physical media I collect is 80% vinyl and 20% CDs.

I have Qobuz for my PC but not my audio system. On my PC high resolution is very limited but I'll often prefer lossless downloads to the digitized copies of vinyl played back on the PC. Doesn't really mean much comparing digital recordings of vinyl with lossless downloads.

And then when I add a streamer to the audio system nothing will mean much until I become more confident in the quality of my DAC. All I know is it sounds good enough for the rips and is better than the DAC in my CDP. Who knows maybe I'll end up with 2 DACs - one for the rips and another for the lossless/hi-rez streaming.


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