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CD(s) sound better than any server/streamer.
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Why Do ~You~ Still Play CDs?
I'm curious why you still play CDs in the age of streaming. I recently got back into CD listening and I'm curious if your reasons align with mine, which are:
- Enjoying the physical medium—the tactile nature of the case, the disc, the booklet, etc.
- Forcing myself to actually listen to an album, versus being easily distracted by an algorithm, or "what's next" in my playlist.
- Actually owning the music I purchase, versus being stuck with yet another monthly subscription.
Others?
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i’m a mastering engineer with 11 Grammy winning projects in my résumé and I work on every style for 25 years… Here’s the reality 16 bit 44.1 Audio (CD) is not in any practical way inferior to 24 bit 44.1 Audio or 24 96 or 192 for 99% of modern recordings and only 1% of us could tell 24 from 16 bit
The industries surrounding higher bit rates and higher sample rates, those are all bullshit… The best quality master is the one that was done in the mastering room, someone like Daniel Lenois did many amazing records using 16 bit DAT tape, for example streaming audio is very much inferior to 16 bit audio
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@brianlucey Thank you for sharing your thoughts/experience here. Are you saying the original master, if it’s in 16/44.1, sounds better than an upsampled version? Just wanted to clarify as that’s interesting. Also, on Qobuz I have no problem hearing the difference between 16/44.1 and hi res versions of the same songs and the differences are not subtle (at least in audiophile terms), and I suspect many others here would say the same. Would you then say we are the 1%. Thanks again for your thoughts. |
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