CD transport vs.streaming

Retired, older so what?

A SOTA transport sounds better to me than any of 5 streamers through the same DAC. Same for local files. Not enough better to care in the least. When the Internet stops so does streaming.

Right in the middle of a track.

Anyone that thinks high res is perceptibly better never did the AIX challenge.

@ghdprentice Thank you, couldn't have said it better. Over time fewer and fewer releases will be available on cd, streaming and vinyl are the future.

@sns

Thanks. Yes… physically owning a disk… paying and storing these is on the way out. I have 2,000 vinyl albums and 2,000 CDs… takes up space and if you don’t steam, confines you to listen and re-listen repeatedly to the same thing… but for the price of one CD per month, you have access to millions of tunes.

@fuzztone

Us old farts have a lot of history in these antiquated technologies. So, maybe changing direction isn’t worth it to some. But younger folks are wasting money that could be better spent on something that has a future… streaming.

I bought a K&E slide rule in 1974. I lusted after this bamboo, high end, incredibly good quality slide rule for years. This was the same year that the first affordable calculator came out, the Texas Instruments SR-50 that made slide rules a completely useless device. If you were going to retire from science in a few months… then just keep using your slide rule, otherwise, invest in something with a future… a calculator. I used the slide rule a few times, I loved to look at it… I still have it… I bought an SR-50… my physics labs that took 12 hours (all calculating) dropped to 1 hour of work… only doing physics… not playing with the slide rule. The world of high-end audio is moving on.

My internet has gone down exactly zero times while streaming, this over perhaps four years. I can still play vinyl if web did go down. See, I can appreciate and embrace new technology and the  old. This is about maximizing exposure to music, the tools are secondary, I love music first and foremost.

I know most of the dudes here probably don’t listen to fast metal music. Try something like that streaming then try it again on a nice cd to dac. I think you might come to the same conclusion I have. Cd sounds better for sure. That’s why I want that fancy 4K pro ject transport instead of a new streamer.