Sound Quality of red book CDs vs.streaming

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.

@audio2design,

I know, sadly some of these folks are just stuck in their ways. They shamelessly continue to peddle their archaic experiences. One of them here listens to Spotify and then make ‘noise’ about compression 😂

“put up the Spotify links showing they have the best DR versions also "with the catalogue number" so we can check it on the DR website.?”

And then those who makes ridiculously outlandish claims like “if streaming could come close to a 70K-80K spinner clock combo”.

They have obviously never heard a system consist of Aurender W20SE, Taiko Extreme or Pinkfaun 2.16 Ultra with MSB, Vivaldi or EMM Labs DAC’s.

Actually you can hear the Aurender W20SE with MSB/Vivaldi at Suncoast. Mike prefers the Disc Spinners/Clock combo himself...but what does he know. Might want to go to the AudioShark Forums to see his comparisons.

Noticed one of your prior posts where you state..... Congrats on your purchase, looking forward to your feedback. I also own N10 and N20 seems to be next logical progression. May be someday I could afford W20SE :-)  

So you dont even own the W20SE and dont have the coin?  Doubt you have the MSB/Vivaldi/EMS Dacs either

I actually own a streaming system with EMM DA2 DAC 😊

You on the other hand admitted to ~ ”Ive ONLY heard streamers when going over to listen to other peoples systems for your info”.

So no personal experience, zero coin in Streaming and who knows what you’ve heard to make statements like,

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

If you had the chops to buy Taiko Extreme + MSB Select DAC, you will singing a different tune here.