CD or Streaming... am I missing out?

Using a Primakuna PROLOGUE CLASSIC CD player against a Lumin T2 two of us could hear no difference in “regular” tracks and thought “high res” streaming sounded richer.

Naturally two ageing men with arguably not the best hearing may not be definitely the best to suss out what’s what but we were convinced.

As many have said steaming done right (upper mid to high end) makes CD’s redundant. As for a high end vinyl set up verses high end streaming that gets into gang warfare.

As many have said steaming done right (upper mid to high end) makes CD’s redundant.

A few friends and acquaintances I know/knew that have sold all their massive CD collection for expensive streaming. We don’t see them much any more for audio equipment shoot out. Audio meetings and new product listening.
Think about why this is?

Also why do so many here talk about chopping and changing their streamers/the streaming companies, the best way to connect it to get it sounding right?

Cheers George

Some Report a superior experience with CD (Re Book) playback ...
and Streaming can be inexpensive.
If you have a ton of CDs you may want to focus on a physical Media Player rather than streaming for example.

Some Report a superior experience with CD (Re Book) playback ...

Exactly what we did in the A/B in my 4th post page one. Through very high end stuff, but it was clear what the better was.

And any later music from the last couple of years was just too compressed for either format.

Just look what happens to the later release of the same thing.

This 1989 one is the best, just look at the dynamic range
http://dr.loudness-war.info/album/view/181056

And compare it to the 2015 much more compressed, re-release.
http://dr.loudness-war.info/album/view/100465

And then the even worse 2020 compressed streamed/download one with bonus tracks.
http://dr.loudness-war.info/album/view/179948

Cheers George

CD is great.  You will get about 96 db of dynamic range with it.  No streamer will come close since none will sample at that rate.  However, around 196k of sampling, they sound almost as good as each other to me.  So, any streamer capable of dealing with that rate will be fine.