Sound Quality of red book CDs vs.streaming

@audioengr  
 
I’d genuinely like to know why. ASR measured the jitter reduction inherent with his AP by doing a J-test with a Toslink loop, then measured the Toslink output of the CCA (using the same cable I would assume), so if the jitter reduction was any worse, it would should up, and the differences were near non-existent.

Analog is largely a medium problem--how good is the vinyl cutters, the vinyl stampers, the needles, tonearms, turntables and preamplification?

Digital is a data and compute problem, although the CD is a pretty flimsy piece of crap to put the data on.  If you eliminate the CD, then "data is data" and it's not that hard to get it to the DAC for computation.  Streaming eliminates the piece-of-crap CD from the equation.  So does playing the data out computer memory.  CD will be buried next to floppy disks, cassettes, and 8-track as necessary evils eclipsed by technological progress.

rvpiano
stick with your dedicated cd player. Streaming...etc., still has a long way to go, IMO.  Happy Listening!

@georgehifi

+1 re Linn CD12 cd player. I had the CD12 in the past and it was excellent and was probably one of the most musical sounding CD player back then and even by today standard the Linn CD12 is still considered a reference CD player but limited to CD resolution or CD quality.

If you compare the Linn CD12 to Linn Klimax DS, especially the latest generation of the Klimax DS with Katalyst DAC architecture, the Linn Klimax DS, with the latest Katalyst DAC architecture, outperforms the CD12 by large margin. Not to mention that with the Klimax DS you can access to high resolution downloads. Even when playing cd quality (16/44.1) download files the Klimax DS outperforms the CD12 by large margin. Even the previous or older gen Klimax DS with non Katalyst DAC architecture still outperforms the CD12 player.

@jafant,

“Streaming...etc., still has a long way to go”

Would you mind sharing your streaming setup?