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I am dumbfounded when anyone claims that streaming sounds better than the CD's from which the streams are made.

danvignau

I am dumbfounded when anyone claims that streaming sounds better than the CD's from which the streams are made.

I'm pretty sure that streaming files are not made from CDs. Based on my experience with Qobuz, it's obvious that some streaming files come from different masters than the comparable CDs. So it's certainly possible for a streaming file to better the CD, just as the reverse can also be true.

When people are talking about streaming here I assume they mean the likes of Tidal and Qobuz.
I find streaming files I have ripped from CD and play from my diy streamer sound much better than when played from the CD player I had.

Now, that is interesting dctom

How do those ripped CD files sound compared to Tidal & Qobuz?

High-amp,

My digital source that I’m comparing is red book CDs.
Both CDs and streaming are run through a Benchmark DAC.