CD player versus Streamer

[Innocent_Bystander]

Much said on this subject before. These are two links to my own thoughts/experience on the subject:

Changes

Regarding the ‘new world’, a few years ago my CD player was on the blink, so as I do at such times I turned to the HiFi press to find out what was around, and learnt of this new (to me) streaming world. It seemed to me that streaming is the medium of the future, so made more sense than investing in CD, which I would expect to lock me in for another 10 years. After due research I got an ND5XS, and bought a cheap NAS (Zyxel NSA325) to store and serve. (Ialready had a home network). I had a head st…

CDX 2 to ND5 XS 2

I can’t comment on sound quality differences between CDX2 and ND5XS2 as I haven’t compared - and you are quite capable of that anyway. However with streaming from your own store vs CD, streaming has the potential to be better quality, because it does not have the removeable physical disk that can get damaged or dirty, causing read errors, and so does not need error correction algorithms, and because it opens the door to higher resolution recordings (higher bitrate and/or greater bit depth). The…

(The linked threads also contain other people’s views .)