Direct formats sound better to me be it vinyl or CD when they both have been well mastered. I tried burning, streaming, and even at my dealers 100% of my CD sounds as good or better than the streaming format no matter what they use at the dealer. There is something about direct. Like watching HD on streaming then putting the same movie on from a blu-ray 4K player it looks better and sounds better. If all you watched is streaming movies then it is good enough but that is only because you don't have the Blu-ray DVD to watch, if you did you know how much quality you are losing, but then you cant just click and start the movie either from your chair, my god you have to get up, pull the movie from your cabinet, walk to the TV, load the movie and push play, I am already worn out...smile! having said that streaming is easy, with lots of music at your fingertips and you can pick and choose your DACs and streaming unit to meet your needs. So that is good. But reading all the stuff folks go through the gear on top of gear to get the streaming to sound good, DSP adjustments to the incoming signal and speakers, and on and on, it sounds super complicated to just listen to a recording along with constant changes of streamers and DAC's. And everything thing you add or change does alter the sound, so the more you play with speakers and signals the further away you go from the recording as is. Speakers designers know how their speaker sounds without outside alterations to change what they designed. A computer cannot tell me what I enjoy only I can by my taken the time to learn to setup my system and cabling that works best with my system.
But to each his own. I know what I say is not hip, but my ears tell me, and my ears I trust, and with 1,500 CDs many muti, no way will I burn them for inferior sound FLAC and WAC I have tried hoping, or rebuy them again from a streaming service so I can say current trend. I am buying 20 new CDs this week. I grew up on vinyl and tubes. I own neither now. So that is that. I love my Spatial M3s Sapphires for what they are and I love my room and in no way would I like a DSP program to alter what I enjoy, I spend too much time learning how to set a system upright. Now you all can shoot me..smile! Now for another glass of wine.