Streaming vs Physical Media

The hardest thing with streaming is the providence of the recording. I think streaming services purposely make it difficult to quickly find specific recordings. I find when I am comparing a specific recording (and volume levelling is off) there is no difference from CD and streaming.

Sorry GHD I can’t agree. Serving up this information would be rudimentary if they wanted to. If anything I have found a digression in easily available data. My understanding from research is that royalty rates are not the same for every track and hence there are business advantages to directing the consumer to specific versions not to mention that reducing the number of "popular" tracks allows vendors to reduce costs w.r.t to caching at various pops and the underlying bandwidth to support that further bringing down costs. Streaming is not really new at this point. Spotify, Google Music, Qoboz, Deezer are all over a decade old.

@sandrajolin  - it's 2022. Many non compressed streaming options exist.

I am not an EE, but even I can see that Uptown audio white paper assumes incompetence on the part of designers, and ignorance on the part of readers.

1. They could easily show this with measurements if true
2. They are still sending data via USB, so this phase-noise overlay will still occur.
3. I have sat in enough PCB design reviews, and been involved in enough IC design to know their claims of ground plane noise can be effectively reduced, obviously based on product measurements, to a level where it is not a limiting factor. In terms of the impact on timing inside an IC or product it is a factor of transition time of the clock edge through metastable bounds. With fast edges, power supply / ground noise is going to have limited impact.

It is easy to type something on a keyboard and claim it is true as Uptown has done. But as Charles Hitchens said, that which can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence. On the other hand, you will find many a discussion on the web about clock integrity in noisy environments including impact on jitter.