I prefer, by a slight margin, my Oppo 105 as a transport over my various streamers into the same DAC. I also listen to Classical. I didn’t care for the sound of IDAGIO vs. Qobuz, but prefer silver discs over all of them. Ymmv. There are a lot of variables at play, not the least being differences between the ears and brains of different individuals
Streamer vs. CD Transport
I have my Arcam R Play streamer and my Cyrus CD t transport both connected to a Schiit Gungnir Multibit DAC. The streamer only has an output for a coax connector whereas the transport has provision for both coax and optical cable. Therefore, I have the coax hooking up the streamer and the optical connected to the transport. I like the sound of both, but the SQ from the Arcam seems to be slightly superior to the SQ of the Cyrus.
My question is, is this due to the inherent superiority of coax technology over optical technology?
Or, is streaming better sounding than CDs?
My question is, is this due to the inherent superiority of coax technology over optical technology?
Or, is streaming better sounding than CDs?