Why does my old CD player sound so much better than my new streamer?

bo1972"This person has never been a client of ours."

That is what you wrote right in this thread but then when you are faced with the actual truth about you're practices that include modifying equipment and invalidating manufacturer's original warrantys you then claim:

" When we did not want to help him anymore, he became very aggressive and start telling lies. These kinds of people are mentally sick. It is really sad that they can not control themselves. And put a lot of lies and nonsense on this website."

So it you you who are lieing and you know truthfully that you're modifications are not appropriate and render warrantys useless and sometimes an item that is not readily repairable and that the manufacturer will not even service as is what happened to my neighbor who also use to be you're customer!

I could have this post of your's deleted for attacking me but I will leave it hear for all to see and judge for themselves about you!

It stands for True Fidelity. What is based on how sound and music sounds in reality. I have been addicted to music since I was 6. This is why I started to do this for a profession. I want people to experience their beloved music at the highest level possible.

Sound and also music is built on different aspects/properties. What I wrote many times you need them all to hear and experience the emotion of the music you play. The reason why we started to modify is based on the fact that audio products are not good enough to create an ultimate level in emotion and realism.

This is why I want to use conservatorium students during audio presentations to show that we reproduce music as it sounds in real. Intimate sound is one of the aspects of sound. Both voices and instruments are very small in dimension. Besides the size, we can also give both voices and instruments what we call a 3D shape.

Most people who work in audio even know very little about music and sound. And the same counts for those who spend serious money on audio products. So you can not blame consumers to buy the wrong products. At this moment there is a serious problem regarding digital sources.

Because of the fact that most digital sources and DACS miss so much quality that the level of emotion is very limited. Most people over here experience the same limitations when you read this thread. We auditioned many network player and DACS in over 7 years of time now. Then you know that there is a serious problem.

When consumers only can buy network players and DACS who all create a low level in diversity (layering) in sound. It is impossible to stay happy with this. Because of human emotion will make you aware that it lacks emotion. 

Audio Troy brings up some good points and advice. However, the issue IMO is Tidal itself.  I don't think you are getting good quality sound with it in comparison to a CD player.  Try ripping some CDs and playing those and do a comparison with the CDP.  I have a Lumin Mini with a T+A Dac and I burned all of my CDs and sold the CDP.  You have to compare apples to apples.

After some work, my Antipodes streamer sound is very similar to local files / CD.

Introducing a good switch between the router and the streamer was the most significant upgrade.   

Introducing a good switch between the router and the streamer was the most significant upgrade.  

Which switch did you choose?I am looking at the SOtM  sNH-10G switch but have not found many reviews yet...