Sound Quality of red book CDs vs.streaming

“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.

What generation Esoteric are you referring to?? 20K doesn't buy you TOTL and Im guessing your experience is with one that still used chips. Hell the MSRP on the Clock alone is 30K-ish.  Ive ONLY heard streamers when going over to listen to other peoples systems for your info. Ive spent north of 300K in the past 2-3 years on my gear alone and if streaming could come close to a 70K-80K Spinner/Clock combo I WOULD certainly pick one up. I could use the extra space.