Internet radio stations that sound really good

Radio Paradise is good but you'll find there are many others out there equally as good or better.

Enjoy!

There are many in various genres that sound very good even on a very good audio system, with a wireless Roku Soundbridge hookup. It offers an almost never-ending combination of variety and sound quality...and still growing.

The Radio Roku web site is a welcome feature as well. My understanding from the Radio Roku website is that the Roku system regularly and automatically selects the best sound quality stream to play for a station. Realize that many Internet radio sources are available at multiple URIs and that not all feeds are of equal quality. This in combo with the fact that the Roku device seems to be designed with both sound quality and cost effectiveness in mind, and you have a very nice source addition to consider for your system. A high-bandwidth internet connection is of course a pre-requisite.

101.ru - diverse and somewhat quirky muzak from Russia with excellent sound quality.

Delicious Agony - Progressive Rock

Audiophile alert:

Today I discovered that 101.ru has a few dozen stations available in 128K WMA format, all of which really sound quite phenomenal. I'm currently listening to 101.ru "Spivakov Classic(al)" ...very nice indeed! I highly recommend that anyone with a good quality internet hook-up to their music system give the 101.ru stations a try.

Also, the programming on these stations is really quite eclectic for the most part but the performances and recordings selected are really very good and unique. Whoever selects the music has very good taste, I would say. They also seem to consistently pay great attention to audio quality on a consistent basis. I have yet to hear anything sloppily produced and broadcast on these stations.

These stations originate in Russia and are Russian language stations as well, but much of the programming is either in English, other target languages, or instrumental, so not understanding Russian is not a big issue.

This is pretty close to internet audio nirvana for me, I'm finding.

Hy Lit radio.

Baby boomers from eastern Pa/Philly area will recognize the name.

The name does not relate to a state of (non) sobriety as far as I know.

Found Big Blue Radio using Roku Soundbridge. Very good sound.

CAn't find the other two on Roku though. Do you have the URLs for public access?

Radio Classique Tubes

Is this a station utilizing tubes in the playback system? SOunds like it. Very good sound. Classical from France.

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Here's the URL TSF 89.9 from the Roku service:

http://www.radioroku.com/pcplayer.php?table=stations&field=id&id=5448&title=TSF%2089.9&embed=true

Audiocandy Red White and Blue Radio is a home run.

Material on this station regularly sounds as good as some of my best CDs with my current rig. Outstanding range, dynamics, imaging detail, soundstage....wow!

"One difficulty is that smaller Internet radio stations are too often short-lived, streaming happily along one day and gone the next."

Often true and often not.

"Their stream URLs change at times, too, which makes maintaining a bookmark list (Winamp is good for this) difficult. The larger stations, like RP and Sky, are less prone to these difficulties, however."

Roku's radioRoku service catalogues stations and their urls and provides services that customers can use on their site to help keep things up to date. I find it's not a big problem for the more popular stations of which there are hundreds out of many thousands total.