As always, it depends 😉
Are you sitting down to listen to music in a decent room or is Sonos style ‘on in the background’
I’ve a couple of CD players, an Arcam and a really nice Marantz CD63SE KI Sig (that I swapped with a mate for said ‘packet of jelly beans’ as he said he didn’t need CDs anymore – I’ve about 3,000 of them BTW)
Sit down and listen to either CD player in direct comparison to the ipod or ‘puter and yes I can hear the difference. Small degrees maybe and perhaps I am listening for the difference but I can hear it*
Still have all my vinyl and regularly play that too including through a pair of 1210s that I still DJ with. Well, I’m not ‘analogue’ andy for nothing 😉
*with my knackered middle aged ears!