Ricky64
100+ Head-Fier
@buzzlulu , do you have a combination streamer/dac/preamp/amp in your two channel system?
As someone who is primarily two channel, and has heard, has owned, and currently owns, streaming boxes from $5 to $25k - I wholeheartedly disagree with this statement. Sorry but to say that streaming cannot provide high fidelity listening is foolish.
I own, and have friends who own, two channel systems approaching 6 figures and above. Since most of us are older, grew up COLLECTING and BUYING music (before CD's and digital even existed), and already own significantly large physical collections (in my case 7000 records and 3000 cd's) - we are not investing large sums in streaming boxes because "they are for convenience". Many of us have stopped buying CD's, continue to buy vinyl, and now use Tidal and Qobuz for our digital non analogue listening. We would not be doing it if our streaming boxes were not capable of exceeding our (expensive) CD players - and were only for convenience. We have too much invested in preamplifiers, amplifiers, and speakers to settle for a playback system which can only provide convenience. And - by the way - we also believe in SOURCE FIRST for system building so that is where we are putting the bulk of our funds. Convenience simply does not cut it.
Go to a hi end two channel shop and do a blind test of a ripped CD vs. a Tidal or Qobuz stream from the TOP two channel streaming boxes in the world. You will be quite surprised by the outcome.
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