Sound Quality of red book CDs vs.streaming

Lalitk,
Maybe you should try a Top of the Line Spinner/Dac like Esoteric with a Clock and compare it to your streamer. Dealers that carry both streamers and Esoteric/MSB/Gryphon etc will tell you there is no comparison. Me thinks some people arent stubborn to change...they simply can afford the best and not compromise. Streamers are great for experimentation but not for sound quality. I think people are just too lazy to get off their butt and put a new disc in every 45 minutes.

“Streamers are great for experimentation but not for sound quality”

@riaa_award_collectors_on_facebook,

Comment like above tells me you have no experience with streamers or you’re too cheap / lazy to invest in a SOTA streamer setup. It appears you have yet to hear a good streaming setup.

My streamer / DAC setup smokes any $20K Esoteric CD/SACD player. I know so cause I have done the A/B comparison in my home.

Dealers are not making the profit margin on the few new "good cd only transports", that they can make on the multitude of streamers out there.

Whenever a streamer (doesn’t matter what) comes to my place for an a/b shootout, it can’t match the CD transports dynamic range, using the same MSB discrete dac level matched, this is as I’ve mostly stated, different compressed releases being streamed, as my cd’s are the best DR ones released (usually the first), http://dr.loudness-war.info/ or it "maybe" that the streaming company compresses to stream.

But if the CD with transport is recorded to a streamers H/D then replayed that’s another story, it’s a lot closer, almost undetectable.

Cheers George

rvpiano

Nice! I am auditioning cabling to round out my system.
The Audio journey has been an outstanding experience.

Happy Listening!

lalitk, you are pushing a rope trying to talk to people who have ignorant dogmatic ways. Some people just can't accept things they don't understand.