Sound Quality of red book CDs vs.streaming

The Mofi 45rpm releases of "American Beauty" and "Workingman's Dead" are wonderful.

This too:

https://store.dead.net/pacific-northwest-73-74-the-complete-recordings-19-cd-boxed-set-1.html

The samples sound promising.  I'm saving up to buy before they sell out.

gosta - I think kahlenz commented on GD and his recommendation is a good one.

There is nothing good about overly aggressive dynamic range compression. There is no benefit other than the level (loudness) can be made much higher. It doesn’t make it more detailed. It doesn’t make it smoother.  It’s a teeny bopper thang. Hel-loo! 

Having music free of any compression, gives you more space to listen to your music louder, and your brain likes it, and enjoys the building crescendo's, as then it's not so relentless and fatiguing that you have to turn it down if it were compressed.
  
Like I said above, the only time compression works for music, is when its not the main consideration to be listened to, when it's a silence filler, noise masker or earbud/ear-drum saver.  
1: dinner parties
2: background music
3: in lifts
4: when your on the phone
5: not to blow up ear buds or your ears
6: and to stop the wife from saying turn it down during crescendo’s
7: in the car so the road noise doesn’t mask the low level parts.
8: late at night when everyone else asleep.

Cheers George