Getting close to giving up on CD's

There's been some recent threads here and reviews, online, where it's been "discovered" that CDs sound as good, if not better, than high rez streaming, when a decent CDT is used. I'd keep my CDs if I were you.

All the best,
Nonoise

Why either or?  It doesn't cost you anything to keep your CDs.  Rip your favorites and continue to use Roon/Tidal to augment your collection.  Get a decent travel case and play some of the CDs in the car.  That's what I did anyway.  I owned some pretty good CD players and no way did any of them top the sound I get from the Antipodes DX into SOtM triad set-up I use now.  The Metrum Ambre is another pretty good endpoint (and less expensive) but to my ears just misses out compared to the three SOtM boxes.

keep your CD and subscribe to Tidal.

I have had the opposite experience.  After ripping over a thousand CDs to various HDs I have concluded that replay from a HD can at best equal, but not better, CD replay, and frequently doesn’t equal CD quality.  The differences aren’t profound, not like comparing MP3 vs CD or High Resolution downloads, but it’s there.  Downloads are very expensive, and with remastered CD megabox collections being sold at fire sale prices my CD collection has been growing instead of the anticipated thinning that I thought would occur.

  I have also found that listening from a HD also leads to superficial listening.  Being able to touch an iPad and change the album becomes tempting, vs the ritual of changing a disc

We are major proponents of streaming and having a library.

Mahier it all depends on what you were doing to stream to your dac.

If you were using a generic computer with a $5 generic usb of course your digital playback woudn't be very good.

Useing J River or Roon to upconvert a 16bit 44k CD via your computer to upsampled 24bit 384k or DSD makes digital files sound much more like analog files.

The Innuous servers using a good ethernet and usb cable sound amazing into a good dac and will blow away most really expensive CD players at 1/3 the cost. 

The advantage of having a library is that you can see and remember what you like and own, when you combine having a good library with Tidal to fill out what you are missing the combination is fantastic.

In addition your stored library can be shared throught your house with Roon integrating separate devices such as Nad Blue Sound products with Naim or other higher end Roon endpoints and you have both great sound quality with the modern convenience of Ipad/Iphone/Android control in many rooms of your home.

Viva the revolution!

Dave and Troy
Audio Doctor NJ