Listening to CDs from a streaming service works for most people, but it does put you at the mercy of the quality of the streaming service, your router, your ISP (many have throttled bandwidth during the pandemic, with everyone Zooming, streaming movies at home, etc), and finally, the ability of your streamer to connect and play with all of the above. There is a lot to be said for putting the CD in the transport and hitting play.
Assuming your must be the bees knees because it says McIntosh on the faceplate is like assuming that all Cadillacs must be great cars.
How much DSD content do you plan to purchase? Do streaming services such as Tidal even stream in DSD? And as someone else up thread implied, you need a pretty highly resolving system (I.e., probably past your budget) to really appreciate it.
fwiw, I play the DSD layer of my SACDs via HDMI using my Oppo 105, which can output the DSD layer over HDMI, into my Bryston DAC3, which has HDMI inputs, but it’s DSD 64. I was able to stream 1 recording of an SACD that I owned over usb at DSD 128 and heard no difference.
Assuming your must be the bees knees because it says McIntosh on the faceplate is like assuming that all Cadillacs must be great cars.
How much DSD content do you plan to purchase? Do streaming services such as Tidal even stream in DSD? And as someone else up thread implied, you need a pretty highly resolving system (I.e., probably past your budget) to really appreciate it.
fwiw, I play the DSD layer of my SACDs via HDMI using my Oppo 105, which can output the DSD layer over HDMI, into my Bryston DAC3, which has HDMI inputs, but it’s DSD 64. I was able to stream 1 recording of an SACD that I owned over usb at DSD 128 and heard no difference.
