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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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georgehifi

Great idea for a thread. The measured proof would become provided via these server/streamer companies.
Yes it would be good, but nobody as yet has come forth with any measured proof, to the threads opening paragraph question.

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.

Cheers George

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CD vs Streamed?

My preference is CD. 
I Stream to find music that I enjoy.  Then I purchase the CD.

Measurement = My Ears and Wallet.
dougthebiker
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IMO, there are far bigger differences between the quality of the sound engineering from recording to recording than there are between streaming vs. CD.

And, you can’t be sure that the version of a piece that you’re listening to on the CD was engineered the same as the version you’re getting while streaming.  Probably wasn’t.

In the end, probably not a productive thing to worry about.
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georgehifi OP
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And, you can’t be sure that the version of a piece that you’re listening to on the CD was engineered the same as the version you’re getting while streaming. Probably wasn’t.
If you can find out your streamed versions cat no. then compare it to other released versions here https://dr.loudness-war.info/
Usually the later the version the more compressed it is, and that’s mainly what streaming companies use.

Cheers George
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Same DAC. Esoteric N-01XD. Has a top quality streamer built in.

Cd playback via a Transport (Esoteric p-05x) is better than Qobuz and Tidal streaming (Roon Nucleus + server). Every single time.

I don’t know why. I don’t know what to measure, don’t have the measuring gear. That is what ears tell me.

Streaming has long ways to go IMO
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