Why Do ~You~ Still Play CDs?

When I asked one of the owners of the company that makes my cables why he's getting into streaming he said he'd settle for 85% of what he can get out of his CDP and TT for casual listening. They have four completely different systems that they test their cables on before settling on a final version. Not as engaging but great for background music. It was for convenience.

By the way, I think Tony Manasian would agree with brianlucey about 16 bit done right sounds great. Though Tony's music taste is very eclectic, I've yet to hear any CD sound as realistic and 'in the room' as his works. 16 bit, straight in, no mixing, no tampering, and on one CD using a cheap mike that cut off at around 16Khz. It's almost funny.

All the best,
Nonoise

There was a test carried out last year by  Alan Shaw and the folks at Harbeth, you can look in the forums there. What they found was not a subtle difference.

There you have it! All the proof you could ever want.

"high resolution" is a marketing myth
@brianlucey 

It appears you enjoy making provocative statements. May be that’s your thing! 

The thing that most people miss is the importance of the transport vs a regular CD player with DAC included. Even a budget CD transport like the Audiolab 6000 + a tube based DAC like the LAB12 DAC1 (non oversampling) should be an eye opener to anyone that can actually hear these changes.