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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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Same DAC. Esoteric N-01XD. Has a top quality streamer built in.

Cd playback via a Transport (Esoteric p-05x) is better than Qobuz and Tidal streaming (Roon Nucleus + server). Every single time.

I don’t know why. I don’t know what to measure, don’t have the measuring gear. That is what ears tell me.

Streaming has long ways to go IMO
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