For the haters of streaming. I predict you'll all be listening and likely loving streaming at some point. CD's will continue to decline, vinyl limited releases. No wonder a lot of used streamers available, people upgrading streaming equipment, not giving up on it. We are in relatively early days of streaming, innovation will come fast and furious.
Now, obviously we can't control quality of any particular streaming recording, but then we could never control the recording quality of vinyl or cds. I've heard complaints of poor quality vinyl, cds for years, continues into today. Most of streaming quality complaints I see on this thread are of relatively low sound quality commercial recordings, Bruce Springsteen and Genesis are not what I'd call audiophile recordings. I have original vinyl, various cd versions and streaming versions of many Genesis albums, sure they sound somewhat different, none are miracles of sound quality. Streaming is extremely viable as quality sound source for audiophiles, not accepting it is akin to the analog purist never accepting digital sound. I just know my system lets me get into the music, cd rips, vinyl, streaming, I'm agnostic as to source, all are capable of fully immersing me into music. Sure, sound quality variable, correlates to recording quality far more than whether cd rip, vinyl or stream. Very few recordings unlistenable, only the most extreme compressed. Having said that, I mostly listen to music on my main system that doesn't suffer the usual over production of more commercial releases, I've long been bothered by those victims of loudness wars, over compression. That music saved for car or work system listening.
