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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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rixthetrick
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@georgehifi - has your friend at Sound Stage Au done a review on either Australian made, The Gieseler Company DAC or Lenehan Audio loudspeakers?

Yeah I haven't been bothering streaming, I have 500 cds loaded on a dedicated SSD, on a fanless PC.

Eventually I will move over to something like the Auralic which is apparently pretty much state of the art now. I have listened to hi res, and the difference hasn't proven to be night and day for me, as some people have experienced themselves.

I am strictly digital at the moment, I have not had a streamer and I have heard music through a Cambridge Audio Azur 851N, and dedicated music server PC, the sound was ok.
Thank you for sharing this info, interesting to know. I remember we used to sit around listening when I was on the Goldie in QLD, comparing MQA and standard quality, and sometimes it was a little better, sometimes not. Often the MQA was remastered and it wasn't apples for apples at that point, it wasn't about a format being better or not, it was the guy remastering.

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jasonbourne52
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Time is money to these corporations! Bandwidth is finite. So it is logical to squeeze as much data into a limited space - i.e. compression!
dyson2004
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My Innuos Zen 3 through the Denafrips Pontus sounds excellent. It stores CDs on its hard drive and I also use it to stream from Qobuz. Qobuz is handy but even hi-res files don’t sound as good as CD.
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@georgehifi - has your friend at Sound Stage Au done a review on either Australian made, The Gieseler Company DAC or Lenehan Audio loudspeakers?

Not sure, have a bit of search though here,
https://www.soundstageaustralia.com/
he’s done a few, and if older than around 4 years look at the 6 Moons site where he was head reviewer, before starting up SoundStage Australia

Cheers George
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