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CD or Streaming... am I missing out?

I listen to CD in my headphone office system. Use a Theta Compli transport and a very nice and pricey tube 16/44 DAC. Have thought about a streaming capability and all its benefits but am both limited by SPDF and by 16/44 only. I also love the analog sound of my tube DAC. Does streaming sound far surpass CD? Am I missing out?
mglik
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georgehifi
10,312 posts
 
Yamaha CD transport is not a high-end CD transport LOL

It is a  Yamaha CD-S2100 transport
Even though it not what's considered "hiend" audiophile transport, it was good enough to be better than anything streamed  via that streamer..

Cheers George
richtruss
163 posts
 
I have a Lyngdorf CD2 and a Bricasti M5 streamer with an ENO filter on the Ethernet input. The Bricasti has the edge, I never listen to the CD player. All my CD’s are ripped to FLAC on a NAS drive and I use Qobuz too. Streaming all the way for me.
jafant
18,783 posts
 
mglik

Nice system. Your Theta is an excellent transport. I have been thinking about adding one to my collection. Is your the basic or blu-ray upgrade?

Happy Listening!
jafant
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accuphaseyyz

The DP-570 is sweet. Is this spinner your 1st Accuphase?

Happy Listening!
motown-l
166 posts
 
My okay Denon streamer was no longer supported by the company. It then became a FM tuner with wired iPhone/iPad capability. That being said, as long as I am using my iPhone via the firewire connection to the streamer, even a compressed 320 kbps streaming source will give CD's a run for the money.  Really well executed, non remastered CD's (Diana Krull, Mark Knopfler, Gomez and others) generally blow streaming away. I do have some grey market FLAC downloads that are amazing.
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