Sound Quality of red book CDs vs.streaming
question is why when your dac really should be taking care of the jitter (benchmark dac1)? Do you really need to add a reclocker? Simply because they don’t do a good job of reclocking and the PLL in the typical reclocker still benefits from a low-jitter input. You are much better off with a DAC that does not have a reclocker on the input. I can make this sound amazing. Steve N. Empirical Audio |
Jumping in a bit late and admit I haven't read the bulk of the thread. Riddle me this. I am using a custom gaming pc as my source with an asus dsx soundcard outputing via AQ carbon coax spdif feeding a Bryston Bda 1 balanced out to a Krell Showcase then on to my Levinson 334 for stereo left right channels. Tidal sounds much more dynamic and better than my ripped local files that sit on a ssd. I am not even using hard wire networking I am using wifi. My Jriver is setup wasapi output and so on. This doesn't make sense. |
I’ve found that the SQ of my red book CDs exceeds that of streaming using the identical recordings for comparison.One word, compression. Either by the streaming company to save on size when streaming. Or because they used the compressed later release version of the music they stream, even though it’s the same piece. The uncompressed harder to find versions always sound better. Prove it to your self, buy these two and compare http://dr.loudness-war.info/album/list?artist=Golden+Earring&album=Moontan Compressed version http://dr.loudness-war.info/album/view/149610 Original uncompressed version http://dr.loudness-war.info/album/view/89118 Cheers George |
