Anthony, mate, you've just *got* to get one. Trust me, not only will it sound as good as (or if not better) than your CDPs, you'd be able to sit in your workshop, listening to music on your system, all controlled from your laptop!
If you didn't want to open up the partition doors in your lounge, and hear it through your main speakers, you could simply hook up a small pair of decent speakers, and wall-mount them in your workshop. Then have a wee shimmy-ette, to Sister Sledge, whilst soldering some capacitors....
....or perhaps not!
Marco.