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Nah man. If you care about your CDs you should already have them ripped to flac format, so the disc rot can't kill them. Convert to mp3 vbr0 for tossing them on a player or your phone. Listen with whatever ear buds you like.
It's not like vinyl or casette tape, where the analog nature of the storage medium is going to effect the sound. CDs are pure digital, just a carrying case for the files on them.
Is flac even necessary if they are coming off CDs? A CD is most often 192kbps mp3 format.
Ripping to flac is like ripping a 720p video to 4k and just filling in the extra resolution with black bars.
Edit: this is incorrect. See Captain Aggravated's comment below.
Flac or wav, right? Is flac smaller?
Or go 320kbps mp3...
Why mp3 vbr0 and not opus?
That's the first thing I did with all my Frank Zappa cds... converted them to digital and put the cds away so they wouldn't end up scratched.
I agree about ripping the CDs to files, but disc rot is not a big deal to worry about if you're storing the CDs properly away from sunlight and heat. Recently I've been going through my collection and ripping old CDs of stuff I didn't have in the digital library... and all my CDs from the 90s that I've tried are still good. Many of these are 30+ years old and still sound perfect