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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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dpetr
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George,
I've done some experiments with this.  I've compared CDs from my collection that I've ripped to Tidal's version of the same recording.  I've figured out a way to download from Tidal, then I look at the DRs calculated when I import the Tidal rip into JRiver.   In most cases, you're right that Tidal tends to have a recent remaster, or lately, an MQA version only....if you search by artist.   But if you search by album name, I've found as many as 6 versions of the same recording, and these are mostly all different.  This is a laborious process, but if I find this, I download all 6, listen to each, then compare the DR values.   Usually I wind up marking the version with the highest DR and I stream that one from now on.  I also look at the files in Audacity to see which have clipped peaks, and which don't.  I haven't found a faster way yet to do this.   Some of the DR results are wildly different.
Dave
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