Trying to find serious articles about Streaming vs CD

[Steinwaytune]

Since I left my tape recorder long ago, I only had CDs to listen to. Now that I have a Bluesound Node I can 'receive' Tidal's HiRes tracks. The difference between for instance Paul Simon's Graceland on CD and HiRes is incredible.

So I'm interested in reading more about the pros and cons of streaming vs CDs. Where can I find articles? And this must have been posted and commentated a lot of times here already (I don't want to start it all over again if it's already there), but I could not find it. So what would be a good standard reading on the subject?

Thank you for guiding me!

 

[nopiano]

The difference between for instance Paul Simon's Graceland on CD and HiRes is incredible.

In what way? Which do you prefer?

The often remarked upon issue is that we very rarely know what quality the masters are for a stream. They might be excellent and recently remastered, or an old transfer that’s been upsampled. And lots of other random possibilities.

Some people never quite ‘get’ streaming, and use it to hear new stuff which they then buy on CD or LP. Others, like me, find streaming satisfies 90% of their listening needs.

One benefit of a CD is you may listen to the entire album, as intended. With streaming, especially if you’re using a tablet or phone as a ‘remote’, is to hop around from track to track. Instead of listening, it’s sometimes too easy to keep scrolling.

There are plenty of opinions and articles in WHF and other forums but I cannot think of anything ‘definitive’. Others may well do, however!