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Sound Quality of red book CDs vs.streaming

I’ve found that the SQ of my red book CDs exceeds that of streaming using the identical recordings for comparison. (I’m not including hi res technology here.)
I would like to stop buying CDs, save money, and just stream, but I really find I enjoy the CDs more because of the better overall sonic performance.
 I stream with Chromecast Audio using  the same DAC (Schiit Gumby) as I play CDs through.
I’m wondering if others have had the same experience
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jafant
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rvpiano

Thank You for sharing your point of view on the whole dedicated player vs. music server/streamer.  Keep 'em spinning.

Happy Listening!
caphill
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I highly recommend the latest generation of Linn Klimax DS with Katalyst DAC architecture or latest gen of Linn Akurate DS with Katalyst DAC architecture as well as various Naim DS with a separate Naim power supply unit especially the 500 series Naim. 
These are highly musical sounding digital front end source components and will outperform many high end CD/SACD players. 

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You may find this will be better than all of them.

Naims new $25-30K flagship Reference R2R Multibit ND555 + power supply, network player still using the PCM1704 dac converters.

http://www.theaudiobeat.com/news/naim_nd555.htm

Cheers George
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Jafant,

Thanks for your acknowledgement.
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I have to amend my assessment of pauses between tracks in the various streaming services.
Upon further listening, I found that all the services had the pauses in varying degrees, unfortunately.
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