Streaming vs Physical Media

Well for me have a modest collection of cd's wanted a good player, Went with the Jays version 3.

Got a streamer, Byrston Bdp3 with Qobuz. The upper octaves are elevated as opposed to mid-range on down, Was ready to sell the Bryston stick with CD playback.

For curiosity, I downloaded Tidal, And the difference is Huge. Sound equals or slightly surpasses The cd tansport. really does. Im sold on streaming Tidal. 

I am not an EE, but even I can see that Uptown audio white paper assumes incompetence on the part of designers, and ignorance on the part of readers.

1. They could easily show this with measurements if true
2. They are still sending data via USB, so this phase-noise overlay will still occur.
3. I have sat in enough PCB design reviews, and been involved in enough IC design to know their claims of ground plane noise can be effectively reduced, obviously based on product measurements, to a level where it is not a limiting factor. In terms of the impact on timing inside an IC or product it is a factor of transition time of the clock edge through metastable bounds. With fast edges, power supply / ground noise is going to have limited impact.

It is easy to type something on a keyboard and claim it is true as Uptown has done. But as Charles Hitchens said, that which can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence. On the other hand, you will find many a discussion on the web about clock integrity in noisy environments including impact on jitter.

@sandrajolin  - it's 2022. Many non compressed streaming options exist.

@hiend2 

Strange.  Love this hobby!  I found Tidal to sound like you experienced Qobuz. I find Qobuz more relaxed and richer with more natural tone and frequency balance top to bottom.