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Another question:
I see quite a lot of people - audiophiles, audiophile manufacturers - claiming that they don't use, or have abandoned, streaming digital because CD players sound better to them. Every time they compare, the same content streamed vs from a good CD player, they claim the CD player "just sounds better."
My inclination is to be quite skeptical about this. And anecdotally, in my own experience, I didn't find the switch from a CD player to streaming my lossless-ripped CDs to a DAC to be downgrade whatsoever...and I don't know of any technical reason to have expected otherwise.
And I've seen some discussion saying that if anything, streaming has the potential for better performance (even if only technically).
But, I'm no expert, so I'd like to ask Amirm or others here: Could there be anything technically going on that could substantiate the impressions some people have that playing CDs directly from a good CD player sounds different, even better, than streaming the same content?
I see quite a lot of people - audiophiles, audiophile manufacturers - claiming that they don't use, or have abandoned, streaming digital because CD players sound better to them. Every time they compare, the same content streamed vs from a good CD player, they claim the CD player "just sounds better."
My inclination is to be quite skeptical about this. And anecdotally, in my own experience, I didn't find the switch from a CD player to streaming my lossless-ripped CDs to a DAC to be downgrade whatsoever...and I don't know of any technical reason to have expected otherwise.
And I've seen some discussion saying that if anything, streaming has the potential for better performance (even if only technically).
But, I'm no expert, so I'd like to ask Amirm or others here: Could there be anything technically going on that could substantiate the impressions some people have that playing CDs directly from a good CD player sounds different, even better, than streaming the same content?