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Vote Your Ranking -If you have an opinion on this digital subject

There have been many statements made about this question here and on other forums stating differing opinions as which SQ is better :

 

1.-Red book CD

2.-Streamed High resolution files- i.e. Tidal/Qobuz

3.-Downloaded files purchased in Super Hi Res-Acoustic Sounds

4.-Red Book CDs ripped and stored for playback as files

 

Everyone may have an opinion on their preference

but is there any actual evidence of this? I suppose the only

way to produce evidence would be via blind testing and

survey results.

 

So please list in your preferred order the numbers

1,2,3,4  with the 1st being the best/ 4 the worst SQ 

 

Audiophiles may have an idea of their preference

but is there any actual evidence? I suppose the only

way to produce evidence would be via blind testing and

survey results. 

 

Does anyone have some hard facts as it relates to this query? 

 

Thank You.

 

chorus
carlsbad's avatar
carlsbad
1,551 posts
 

The one going through the best equipment.

 

tomic601's avatar
tomic601
12,911 posts
 

you lost me at “ hard facts”…

As a reference you might consider a trip to 2L recordings download bench…

antigrunge2
1,403 posts
 

Errors from Cd direct can be corrected by ripping. So after that the question becomes whether a streamer streams better from Qobus/Tidal rather than from a linked hard disc. That in turn is a function of the cables and spinner used in ripping vs. the quality of the cabling, routing and clean-up of ethernet. There simply is no universal answer to this, however, I‘d challenge anybody to better a well set up streaming system on high resolution. I would therefore posit that CD and DSD players are now becoming redundant.

edcyn
1,876 posts
 

I'll stick my neck (or ears) out and put Streaming as best, followed by SACD, CD,and then by stuff on my computer and various storage devices...most of which unfortunately are mp3. It's not that the mp3's sound out-and-out bad, however. They're just not as good.

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stereo5
6,384 posts
 

@fuzztone ,

were you referring to me?

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