@cleeds Respectfully decline to identify brand names. Believe there is brand name bias, myself included, that can get in the way for this topic. Will say all my components are from brands with long history in audio, not expensive, high performance for the cost.
@ghdprentice To further clarify streamer and CD transport feed digital to the same DAC via optical connections. Comparing the same track, streamer sound is noticeably congested. Not enough different to say the streamer sound is bad, just different. Is it the streaming service or the streamer? Don't know.