You have very high end gear to play from CD. It will be difficult but not necessarily impossible to get close.
The devil is in the details. Very clean power for everything. Lots of good LPS, lots of choices. My current favorite for the price is the Farad3.
In my system I started with an EtherRegen and it was good with LPS1.2 for power. I added a SOtM sNH 10G with clock and Farad3 for power. Then the icing on the cake was adding an EE Switch8 powered by an Uptone JS2. Sounds crazy but it keeps getting better. Then I turned the EtherRegen around and added Fiber to the EtherRegen and SOtM and that was like adding Frosting to the icing.
Also big improvement with the 2 dcbl CAT7 cables and a dcbl CAT6 cable from SOtM.
I found removing all the SMPS was helpful. I changed SMPS for my REL Longbow's from stock to IFI and it destroyed the sound of my system. The IFI may have cleaner power output but they added a lot of noise to the rest of the system. I had to move them off the dedicated lines for the rest of my audio gear.
Roon was another plus for its integration with Tidal and Qobuz and using the DSP, but having the Core on a quiet computer is important and a good streamer counts. I have an Innuos Statement which is very quiet with its crazy power supply. I can hear a difference between locally stored files and hi-rez on Tidal and Qobuz and it is bigger than the difference between Tidal and Qobuz. Tidal is a bit more lively and Qobuz is smoother and a bit more relaxing.
But at the end of the day it all sounds good and it gets nit picky only when comparing the sources.
Listening to Roon Radio playing Rod Stewart Mandolin Wind 16/44 on Qobuz now and it sounds wonderful.
The devil is in the details. Very clean power for everything. Lots of good LPS, lots of choices. My current favorite for the price is the Farad3.
In my system I started with an EtherRegen and it was good with LPS1.2 for power. I added a SOtM sNH 10G with clock and Farad3 for power. Then the icing on the cake was adding an EE Switch8 powered by an Uptone JS2. Sounds crazy but it keeps getting better. Then I turned the EtherRegen around and added Fiber to the EtherRegen and SOtM and that was like adding Frosting to the icing.
Also big improvement with the 2 dcbl CAT7 cables and a dcbl CAT6 cable from SOtM.
I found removing all the SMPS was helpful. I changed SMPS for my REL Longbow's from stock to IFI and it destroyed the sound of my system. The IFI may have cleaner power output but they added a lot of noise to the rest of the system. I had to move them off the dedicated lines for the rest of my audio gear.
Roon was another plus for its integration with Tidal and Qobuz and using the DSP, but having the Core on a quiet computer is important and a good streamer counts. I have an Innuos Statement which is very quiet with its crazy power supply. I can hear a difference between locally stored files and hi-rez on Tidal and Qobuz and it is bigger than the difference between Tidal and Qobuz. Tidal is a bit more lively and Qobuz is smoother and a bit more relaxing.
But at the end of the day it all sounds good and it gets nit picky only when comparing the sources.
Listening to Roon Radio playing Rod Stewart Mandolin Wind 16/44 on Qobuz now and it sounds wonderful.