CD or Streaming... am I missing out?

Using a Primakuna PROLOGUE CLASSIC CD player against a Lumin T2 two of us could hear no difference in “regular” tracks and thought “high res” streaming sounded richer.

Naturally two ageing men with arguably not the best hearing may not be definitely the best to suss out what’s what but we were convinced.

As many have said steaming done right (upper mid to high end) makes CD’s redundant. As for a high end vinyl set up verses high end streaming that gets into gang warfare.

 

@jafant

“No- streaming does not surpass the CD.”

In some cases/setups this is/isn’t so.

Lot’s of variables but with a high bit rate on a good/great system steaming has arrived equaling or surpassing CD’s. YMMV.

To dial in steaming getting results of par with high end vinyl or redbook (44,100 kHz) requires a top DAC (internal in streamer or separate), ethernet and the usual goodies but so do all other formats to sound amazing. 
 

On Qobuz music files start out at

16-Bit CD Quality
44.1 kHz - Stereo

and go to

24-Bit
192 kHz - Stereo (lossless files)

Just had a hard core vinyl fiend over. He zinged all over the music universe. He quipped the CD day’s are numbered. Could be? I ripped all the ones I had and sold my CD player (Thanks A Gone).

It’s just a matter of preferences and alas pocketbook girth.