The difference between Qoboz stream vs purchased songs

@blisshifi  and there you have, physics, protocols, and so on be damned, there is nothing more to prove! 

There are plenty of discussion, and no one has ever put up any proof for outlandish claims like you made. No one. Nothing that can be verified, nothing that can explain how it works. No one. 

To just say something about noise and digital errors, that does not work. There is no noise coming from the ethernet cable or down the chain, that is the anti-thesis of how Ethernet works. And digital errors are mitigated by the TCP/IP stack, and if it wasn't things like DRM and encryption would fail and there would be nothing to play. That is how the reality is. 

@gkelly sound quality wise, there is no difference. In fact, Qobuz download entire songs before playback starts during the streaming, and even stores them in a cache. 

fredrik222

Qobuz download entire songs before playback starts during the streaming, and even stores them in a cache. 

That false, and debunked in this post. This is very easy to test for yourself, so I'm not sure why you continue to make the claim. You are conflating streaming, downloading, and caching.

Yes, @fredrik222 does not understand streaming.

So the answer to the original question, not that I think I understand it.   I didn't know that Qobuz sold songs to download, but if they do, there is likely an improvement in the quality of the digital data, depending on your system.  Downloaded files are not time sensitive so they use error checking, like banking, defense industry, or other critical functions, to ensure that the downloaded file is an EXACT copy of the original file.   

Streaming cannot do this.  Streaming must keep up with the music so streaming always has error management tool that interpolates for any missing bit and moves on.  Now if you have a high end streamer and great internet service to it, there may be very few missing bits.  OTOH, if you are streaming wirelessly, there are a lot of missing bits and a downloaded song will have much better digital representation.

Jerry

@cleeds Thx for the ‘Heads reference. 
@gkelly There’s a trove on this forum about ways to improve (streaming) sound. Search and yee shall find.

Robert Harley’s book “The complete guide to high-end audio” is a great primer.

A well done room (how the room affects sound) is a highly important component and a great place to start.