I have reasonably high end system

Paradigm Signature speakers,
B&K preamp and AMP
REL subwoofer
Technics 110 Cd changer

for my audio. I use the cd changer as a transport and the preamp works as DAC.

My cd changer is 10 years old and started giving me trouble so need to replace it soon.

Thinking ways of doing it.

One of the option I am considering is to buy a external DAC and digital storage and transport so that I can rip all the CDs into the digital storage and use it with the DAC.

It seems Digital storages seem to be pretty expensive. Can we make use of home computer to do so.

One other question is how to rip the CDs into computer. Do we need special software to do so.

Let me know.

Thanks
Pandu