Ah, Spotify, that paragon of virtue. They have such high standards.
All the best,
Nonoise
CD transport vs.streaming
Many have stated on this forum that the SQ from their CDs is superior to the sound from streaming sources. Others have said the opposite. Weirdly, in side by side identical tracks the sound from my Cyrus CDt sounds identical to my Cambridge CXN v2 streamer. I wonder if anyone else has this experience.
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People I know who are into streaming report listening experiences more aligned with @ghdprentice than @mapman . They find very distinct differences and improvement as server/streamer quality rises. Just my observation. Charles |
When you stream music that's encoded using a lossless codec what goes to your DAC is identical to what comes from a CD. When you stream from a free streaming service there's a good chance that you're getting a compressed stream that has lower quality. I rip CDs to WAV format, which saves music in exactly the same format it has on the CD. And as far as I can tell it sounds the same when I play it. |
@densely You must have been reading some posts from Georgehifi, he would constantly post about a few streams vs cd that measured slightly different then made generalizations about streaming compression. I want to see proof of mass compression of streams, otherwise only anecdotal evidence based on .000001% of recordings. |
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