why are the best sounding turntables belt drive and all cd players and transports direct drive....oh wait...I just purchased a belt drive cd transport. Slide the glass door back and it looks like a mini turntable. You see the belt itself....The sound you say....well you'll have to audition one to experience a totally new sensation. CEC TL5.
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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Agree. Sold all my vinyl and almost all my CDs (I have about 50 hard-to-find, remasters, steelboxes, etc. left). The sale paid for years of streaming. Got rid of the racks to hold them too. So much less clutter. And my streaming can be totally voice controlled. Try that with a CD. And those millions of songs I now have access to are portable on something I always carry with me - my phone. No ripping required. |
@ghdprentice Way back then, in my vinyl days, they said CD’s were the future... |
Listening to an album is a different experience from listening to a service. Most likely you have spent time researching the Album, Genre or the Artist. You have followed a path. It’s a journey. Most of the (new) music I listen to is not part of mainstream music services. And now some of the old music too (see Neil Young, et.al. :-) A streaming service is mostly used to chose a compilation of tracks based on your mood, activity, or whatever. It’s more like radio used to be. I buy most of my music from Bandcamp, that also supplies a good quality rip (occasionally up to 24/96). I play local files and only sometimes CDs. There is already too much big brother snooping going on. |
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