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Does anyone hear listen to internet radio? I've been listening to Radio Paradise a lot lately. The audio codec is 320kbs AAC. It sounds pretty good to me. In fact I'm not sure I could tell the difference between it and CD. I haven't tried.  I first started listening in order to hear new music, stuff I haven't heard before, and this station is perfect. They play stuff I'm really starting to like.No rap, hip hop, metal, country, nothing I don't like.Some of the music is hypnotic. If anyone here can find it give it a listen and see what you think. I receive it on a Yammy Aventage AVR that has wi-fi and net streaming. There's hundreds of net radio stations. I had no idea.
hombre

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hombre OP
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No, that’s not it. It’s the other way around. My equipment is superior to yours. The AVR only receives the internet stream. It then sends it to a high-end amp and speakers. The reason you think you hear a difference is because your gear isn’t good enough to reproduce internet radio sound the way it’s capable of sounding.
hombre OP
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I did try to do just that but I can’t figure out how to do it on the AVR. I know I can do it on my computer, but the stream is received directly by the AVR over my home’s wi-fi. There’s no option, as far as I can tell,on the AVR, to choose a different codec option. I have read that there has been double-blind testing done in which listeners tried to distinguish, reliably and consistently, between CD and 320kbs AAC, and no one was able to do it. But you’re right I would like to hear the FLAC stream. For the record the AVR is a Yammy Aventage and the pre-amp section is feeding a Schiit Vidar amp which is driving a pair of Magnepan LRS speakers. The speakers are new and sound amazing. I've been an audiophile for forty years and I've never heard anything like them.
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