CD or Streaming... am I missing out?

I have a Lyngdorf CD2 and a Bricasti M5 streamer with an ENO filter on the Ethernet input. The Bricasti has the edge, I never listen to the CD player. All my CD’s are ripped to FLAC on a NAS drive and I use Qobuz too. Streaming all the way for me.

mglik

Nice system. Your Theta is an excellent transport. I have been thinking about adding one to my collection. Is your the basic or blu-ray upgrade?

Happy Listening!

accuphaseyyz

The DP-570 is sweet. Is this spinner your 1st Accuphase?

Happy Listening!

My okay Denon streamer was no longer supported by the company. It then became a FM tuner with wired iPhone/iPad capability. That being said, as long as I am using my iPhone via the firewire connection to the streamer, even a compressed 320 kbps streaming source will give CD's a run for the money.  Really well executed, non remastered CD's (Diana Krull, Mark Knopfler, Gomez and others) generally blow streaming away. I do have some grey market FLAC downloads that are amazing.

Streaming vs CDs is about convenience.  Not having to change a CD, being able to call up a wide variety of tracks with a few swipes of a tablet, and not having to store physical media.  Sound quality for streaming vs CD is essentially a non factor.  They both send 1s and 0s to a DAC.  Which sounds better depends more on the specific CDP or streamer under consideration