Sonic CD

One of the games I've always failed to play is sonic CD, not because i wasn't able to play it, we there was always an issue with getting Sega CD back when i was a child and it was realislty a stupid a idea to get Sega CD of the 32X, they weren't a good investment at all. The only games that were really worth it was jussasic park and of course sonic CD.
I can see why everybody claims that sonic CD is the best sonic game in the entire franchise, . The music is brilliant as long as you're playing on the Japanese soundtrack, everything with the Japanese is just more like classic sonic, which i love. If i played sonic CD as a child like a did with the rest of the Sega genesis sonic games, i think sonic CD would have been the best sonic game of all time in my eyes but after year and years of building sonic 3 and knuckles in my head that snic CD just can't compete with it. Sonic CD might be a classic but it's still not a classic my eyes.
i"ve bee brought up to the 16 bit music for all sonic games so I've got a hard time getting used to the CD quality music of Sonic CD even when it;s on the japensese music.
The thing with sonic CD is that Sega introduced time stones instead of the traditional chaos emeralds and this is just one flaw in a flawless game, Is the future and past time sequences, sure they are a nice edition to the game and give you multiple way to play the level but  to me they just seem kind of a gimmick to me and they give you something to go back and play over and over again to see what the future parts an wat past parts look like in each of the levels.
The special stages of sonic CD are actually entertaining, i woudn't say they are better than the sonic 3 special stages but they are a nice take on what sonic CD is trying to represent in the graphics department. the special stages in sonic the hedgehog 2 are awful, that's my own opinion, it's not that i couldn't do them but it's the way that tails would get in the way all the time and you'd end up losing half your rings just on tails doing stupid mistakes whilst you're doing the special stages.
my closing statement is, if Sonic CD is given to me as a child, i think the best sonic game in my eyes would have been sonic CD but since sonic 3 and knuckles has been in the back of my mind as the best sonic game for many years that i don't think my childhood memories of sonic 3 and knuckles that no game would compete with it.

Thanks for reading.