I'm a relative rube with regard to the modern-day digital world but always willing to learn more. That's one reason why I found this post interesting. I don't have much experience with music streaming services or even downloading music and burning CD's. All things being equal, I still prefer good quality vinyl recordings, compared to anything I've heard, thus far, in the digital realm. That being said, I've yet to hear or listen to what I think is commonly referred to as "high resolution streaming", unless I was unknowingly treated to that in my most recent upgrade shopping expeditions. As such, I don't know how or even if this is relevant to this discussion but, for what it's worth, I have a library of approximately 400 physical media CD's, most if not all of which are original releases. Like records, I've found the sound quality of these original CD releases varies, sometimes markedly, depending upon multiple factors (e.g. sound engineering; mixing; recording source; etc.). Original release digital master CD recordings on physical media generally sound best, to me, even better than anything I've heard directly over a streaming service or burned on a CD with a home computer. Still not better than vinyl but pretty nice. Of course, I'm sure the components in one's audio system have everything to do with this. Not having any technical expertise in sound engineering, I can only imagine that whatever remastering is or does opens up a whole world of variables dependent upon the equipment used, the person(s) doing it and the source(s).

Although "original" CD's don't have the same level of compression as some "remastered" ones the problem is that the A to D conversion technology in the 80s and 90s wasn't as good.