If Steve Got You Last Week...

rvpiano 

What is your digital source?

I only stream a distant radio station & the quality is not that good.

I use a CAL Alpha 24/96 tube dac with a CAL Delta transport. Crazy good sound out of them with the right discs & tubes.

Analog is a VPI TT & the MD-102 tuner.

So many albums were intended to be listened to from front to back, as a complete story.

I am dumbfounded when anyone claims that streaming sounds better than the CD's from which the streams are made.

danvignau

I am dumbfounded when anyone claims that streaming sounds better than the CD's from which the streams are made.

I'm pretty sure that streaming files are not made from CDs. Based on my experience with Qobuz, it's obvious that some streaming files come from different masters than the comparable CDs. So it's certainly possible for a streaming file to better the CD, just as the reverse can also be true.

When people are talking about streaming here I assume they mean the likes of Tidal and Qobuz.
I find streaming files I have ripped from CD and play from my diy streamer sound much better than when played from the CD player I had.