It does not matter if it's CD, streamer, blu-ray, sacd, tape, or vinyl, same rule applies to all: garbage in garbage out. It's all in the mastering. Most sound engineers now mix recordings so that they sound loud at low volumes. The reason why hi-res files sound better, or there's a return to vinyl, it's in part because the original recordings are remastered more carefully to sound good with a higher dynamic range rather than mix everything to the limits within 2 or 3db dynamic range. Just take recordings downsampled in mp3 and their remastered version for mp3... world of difference.....
Anyway, as long as we don't burn cds, players will be around...
Anyway, as long as we don't burn cds, players will be around...