I Sold my CD Player!!! Streaming sounds so incredible!!!

@carlsbad it's not that I don't believe in flac or aac, I have half my music collection ripped in aac because many years ago I need to save disc space, so I have heard lots and lots of "lossless" audio, and I have  extensively compared albums in aac vs WAV and WAV sounds superior, again it's a drastic difference.

The entire point of flac and aac was saving space back in the day, but now there is no point, I have maybe 800 CDs ripped and it's under 1 TB, my Aurender has a 2 TB SSD hard drive in it, my computers all have 2 TB SSD, my entire library is backed up to Dropbox which I have a 6 TB limit. I have no use or need to try and save disc space by using "lossless" compression formats that actually sound much worse than just doing bit for bit copies of the original CD without ditching half the bits using flac or aac. 

I find the same thing as fpomposo.  On my Eversolo A8 the ripped CDs on the internal SSD - in my case FLAC - sound markedly better than anything from Tidal and Qobuz,  even the high res stuff, and even the downloads.  There is more substance and depth with the local rip.   And I agree with the technical reasons he stated as reasons for it to be so.  And vinyl sounds even better still.  

I'm surprised at this though

"When I listen to a CD at WAV resolution it’s anywhere from 500 to 800 megabytes of data, if you stream the same album it is going through lots of compression algorithms and you are downloading maybe 50 to 80 megabytes.".

....it seems like others would have seen this also.  Seems too obvious.  I'll have to compare the file sizes of downloads to the ripped if possible.  

Streaming is the nexus between wealth and luck in America. You need the luck of access to hard wired fiber optic service and the wealth to express the data on a fancy system, like the person who began this thread.

Coaxial cable was invented in the 1840's and it is in the lion's share of American households. A coax modem is a digital sphincter that does a mediocre job and wears out in a year or two. The cable tech in my old neighborhood told me he had a job for life replacing coax connectors under the side walk. They fail like clockwork. Streaming was misery.

incorrigable

Streaming is the nexus between wealth and luck in America. You need the luck of access to hard wired fiber optic service ...

If we’re talking about streaming audio, that’s simply mistaken. Hi-res audio such as Qobuz needs no better than 10Mbps for smooth, reliable playback.

Well I will listen to my Vinyl albums and cds .I'm not into streaming and like to look at the cd inserts or check out the Vinyl cover...Hope your streamer doesn't crash...It's all about the music so how ever you listen to music Enjoy....that's what it's there for....