Why Do ~You~ Still Play CDs?

I mention these pieces of hardware because they are good solid equipment which lift the level of my vinyl albums far above digital. Analogue on my system is more immediate and detailed.
 

audio-b-dog  What streamer were you using before the 280D?  How much total do you have invested in your vinyl rig versus your streaming setup?  Fair comparison?

itanibro

CD(s) sound better than any server/streamer.

Happy Listening!

@itanibro

i’m a mastering engineer with 11 Grammy winning projects in my résumé and I work on every style for 25 years… Here’s the reality

16 bit 44.1 Audio (CD) is not in any practical way inferior to 24 bit 44.1 Audio or 24 96 or 192 for 99% of modern recordings and only 1% of us could tell 24 from 16 bit

The industries surrounding higher bit rates and higher sample rates, those are all bullshit… The best quality master is the one that was done in the mastering room, someone like Daniel Lenois did many amazing records using 16 bit DAT tape, for example

streaming audio is very much inferior to 16 bit audio

i’m a mastering engineer with 11 Grammy winning projects in my résumé

Would you please list the Grammy-winning projects? I’d love to give them a listen. Thanks.

@brianlucey  Thank you for sharing your thoughts/experience here.  Are you saying the original master, if it’s in 16/44.1, sounds better than an upsampled version?  Just wanted to clarify as that’s interesting.  Also, on Qobuz I have no problem hearing the difference between 16/44.1 and hi res versions of the same songs and the differences are not subtle (at least in audiophile terms), and I suspect many others here would say the same.  Would you then say we are the 1%.  Thanks again for your thoughts.