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CDP versus HD/server Decision Thoughts

As we speak I am in the middle of this thought process:
From what I understand the pros of Computer/Hard drive/DAC
You can make a perfect copy of the material...going round and round until you get perfect bit for bit copy...stored on hard drive
Hard drive space is pretty cheap...can easily add a backup disk...or several...and when solid state drives work perfectly and don't age so fast...no noise
If you listen contemporary music you have lots of neat ways to access the music easily/make play lists and have it play music for long time period
Easy to down load tunes....ideally HiRez from the internet

Some of the cons might be:
Will it provide the as good of a musical experience as is possible with the best CD players...not sure about that....I haven't heard it yet...and performing tweaks on the CD is still a benefit...whichever method you use
Hard drives do fail....as I understand it at this point SSD have limited life span...but doesn't everything...remember Murphy runs the world....so it will fail at some inconvenient point in time
Classical, Jazz and likely some other musical genres aren't well served by the current music access systems, iTunes, etc....I haven't been able to get Beatles covers into iTunes
Adding complexity to a hifi/analog system....will some of those components add noise to my system....remember most of these systems aren't engineered and tested and debugged for top performance with way a CD player is..
Not sure how I would deal with SACD playback....not that I personally do it now
Is there still potential for jitter/clock error/timing issues if I have a Mac computer...Billy Bob's hard drive and a DAC from another party

So, do I replace my D1-xe with next gen player....which still may or may not handle CDs or go to computer music replay....to get the very best of sound in my analog/2 channel portion of my system....and which unit would that be...sounds like Ayre and Wadia would be in the running....or do I add another Mac to my collection...rip my CDs....use a DAC...and hope iTunes gets better....and they find easier ways to deal with Classical/Jazz material....I am open to all the education I can get on this matter

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