I like my vinyl but was very pleased with my Lumin music streamer ... all the albums I could think of at the push of a button and decent sound quality. Then someone posted something recently about the tips and tricks of getting the most out of streaming: direct and not wireless, fiber optic internet, cables etc etc all the way to the lovely but expensive Innous network products. Now the only “simple” aspect of my system has been infected with the audiophile equipment bug.
CD v Streamed
Uncompressed CD audio will take about 10.6mb per minute to play, to stream that takes big space and dollars to stream an album, see what your streaming company’s takes mb per minute to stream, find out and post up here.
I hear CD’s are better, I get better dynamic range from CD every time it’s A/B to me, now that could be that the streaming companies are using the "later compressed re-issues" of the same albums, you can find that out here https://dr.loudness-war.info/
Or that the streaming process itself compresses the music to save "streaming size" to save big dollars even if in small amounts.
Here’s a video from the CEO of Disc Makers Pty Ltd, yes he probably also biased because he manufacturers CD’s and vinyl, and is a very bad dancer.
https://youtu.be/YHMCTUl2FQo?t=1
Cheers George