Sound Quality of red book CDs vs.streaming

Even with Hi-Res "Lossless".  Look at what that signal is going thru to get to you.  Its being pumped through a satellite somewhere, thru the air with (even a digital signal) various atmospheric interferences, solar radiation, etc.  Then it gets to the receiving end of your cable company or internet provider, and is processed thru their mainframe, which could care less about your audiophile precision listening preferences.  Then onward it goes thru miles of street cables (unless its Fiber, which we know has its own weeknesses for audio content), before coming thru your poll, just 18-24 inches under the magnetic fields of the main lines going to your house, and then into your computer, which for most people, is not necessarily a top tear audio platform with designated circuitry.  Is & can Hi-Res be better than Redbook:  Yes.  Is it always better than Redbook after all that transmission grief:  No.