Without question if you have a good dac and good digital cable
for sure itis cleaner . I use solid state drives what aredead quiet no moving parts , with a CD youhave aspinning disc that the cdreader has to buffer to read,reread for errors and makes a educated guess on some bits. Cd players can sound very good .
but a dedicated hard drive ,solid state with ripped files done correctly for sure is better in every way dB Poweramp is a verygoodripping source
for sure itis cleaner . I use solid state drives what aredead quiet no moving parts , with a CD youhave aspinning disc that the cdreader has to buffer to read,reread for errors and makes a educated guess on some bits. Cd players can sound very good .
but a dedicated hard drive ,solid state with ripped files done correctly for sure is better in every way dB Poweramp is a verygoodripping source