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CD v Streamed



Uncompressed CD audio will take about 10.6mb per minute to play, to stream that takes big space and dollars to stream an album, see what your streaming company’s takes mb per minute to stream, find out and post up here.

I hear CD’s are better, I get better dynamic range from CD every time it’s A/B to me, now that could be that the streaming companies are using the "later compressed re-issues" of the same albums, you can find that out here https://dr.loudness-war.info/
Or that the streaming process itself compresses the music to save "streaming size" to save big dollars even if in small amounts.

Here’s a video from the CEO of Disc Makers Pty Ltd, yes he probably also biased because he manufacturers CD’s and vinyl, and is a very bad dancer.
https://youtu.be/YHMCTUl2FQo?t=1

Cheers George
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If ones wants to almost mimic vinyl using cd, just put a 1kohm resistor across left and right channels of the cd/dac output.
This ruins the channel separation from 120db, down to about 30db right across the board (should be worse in the highs and especially the bass) but it’s a one resistor exercise.

What you’ll find is now playing a CD especially the old nasty left/right ping pong ones (early Beatles etc) suddenly they sound more fleshed out because you are "monoizing" them for want of a better word The voice instead of just in one channel are now in both which gives it extra body. 

It would be even closer to vinyl if you were to really develop a proper passive network on the output of the cd, to follow a vinyl cartridge’s channel separation from 20hz to 20khz .

Cheers George
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Wow tough crowd.  Suum cuique.  
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Suum cuique.


No not really, it’s a measured fact.


Cheers George
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