Streaming vs. CD

Yeah, and P. McGowen (PS Audio) also bought into it at first probably because the $$$ signs were flashing. Then later when this got out even before this vid, he quickly pulled out.
Now the same is happening with these mega dollar boutique ac mains fuses, some that have around 1000% mark up.
There’s a moto with these guys "follow the $$$"

Cheers George

I have read the articles on MQA but Tidal sounds good to me and my non-mqa dac shows 96k which is pretty high resution. The Doge 7 dac I use makes more difference in sound then getting the full unfold on my node's MQA dac. As far as provenance its not too hard to tell for many artists that my cd is same mix as the one online because there is only one mix.(ex. Van Hunt debut cd)
I do curate my cd collection and seek out the best mixes when there have been multiple issues over the years. Some hi res remasters are really good as aging rockstars finally dust off the true original masters and put out their best sounding cataloug yet uncompressed in hi res glory (led Zep comes to mind). Don't like licensing schemes but can't argue with great sound. Tidal or Quobuz through a good dac can be very engaging and indistinguishable from a transport playing the cd through the same dac when doing A,B comparisons in my experince

I just added the same Cambridge streamer that the OP uses.  I bought it because of its claims to use mpegDASH to improve Internet Radio, and because I wanted to add an AirPlay device to my two channel system.  Unfortunately the RCA interconnects from Audioquest didn’t arrive so I had to use some cheap RCAs that I had laying around to connect to my pre amp.
  On the + side, it had no IT issues integrating into my system via Ethernet, and the Cambridge Connect App seems well thought out.  The AirPlay works fine  On the minus, I was disappointed that BBC Radio3 and my other favorite Internet stations are still showing a bit rate of 128kbps or below.  The Cambridge recognizes the files on my Melco N100 NAS but sounds pretty thin compared to both the Melco and my Oppo 105 playing the same files into my Bryston DAC.
I haven’t tried playing the Cambridge into the Bryston DAC —I’m out of cables for that as well.  Also, the Cambridge appears not to work with Qobuz.  Is the OP. using his to play Qobuz?  I can still play my Qobuz files with the Melco, so not a deal breaker, but I’d like to know  I had a Bluesound Node2  last week and to my surprise the DAC on the Node2 sounded much better, although the cabling was different.
  What to conclude?  Nothing at this point.  However it does reinforce my belief that when deciding what works best, streaming or CDs, it depends on the individual players 

Mahler123,

I mostly use Qobuz as my streaming service. It can be accessed both through AirPlay and built in Chromecast. It decodes Chromecast in hi res 96HZ, but sounds great in either mode.  I’m not sure why you can’t.get Qobuz. Are you using the Streamagic app?  If not, download it and follow directions.
I have the Cambridge connected to my Benchmark DAC with high quality cables. The most dramatic improvement in sound was with the addition of a $300 Audioquest power cable.to the Cambridge.
I find the unit to sound quite better than the Node.
Good luck on setting it up properly

Discovered it was playing only out of 1 channel; apparently one of my cheap cables was defective.  The better cables arrived last night and now it sounds much better.
  However, I am using the “Cambridge Connect” app.  It doesn’t offer Qobuz, and the Chromecast doesn’t seem to work either. I will try Streammagic if I get a chance later.