Streaming vs. CD

I stream Tidal Hifi with my bluesound  node2 to Mytek Brooklyn DAC with the Mytek doing the MQA decoding. It sounds great to my ear, CD quality or better. The big plus is the vast amount of music you can access and the ability to make playlists

In my system, I generally prefer the sound quality of CD's over Tidal CD, Tidal MQA or Qobuz. I admit that I do usually listen to Tidal through my Aurender N10 since it is so simple to use and I don't need to get up and switch CD's. Streaming is usually good enough for me but CD's and SACD's win when I am being critical.

The original recording techniques/room/gear makes at least as much difference as the bit/sample rate. I've heard some 16/44.1 releases that sounded phenomenal, and some 24/192 that were merely good. Of course a well engineered master streamed at 24/192 will probably sound better than a CD.

CDs are far from dead. What is dying is computer audio as streaming has taken over.
https://twitteringmachines.com/computer-audio-is-dead-and-streaming-has-killed-it/
As long as there are CDs and LPs to play, they will stick around for the foreseeable future.

All the best,
Nonoise

What is dying is computer audio as streaming has taken over.

Darn it, I didn't get the memo about this!  Or maybe "computer audio" is something different than what I consider computer audio.  I spend a lot of time at my computer(s) and have two full systems with integrateds, DACs, and headphone amps at both.  Most of the music I listen to on the computers is streamed through Qobuz or Tidal, which I think sounds great.  Oh, both systems also have a turntable in them.  And speakers.