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| Sound Quality of red book CDs vs.streaming Remember you are listening to compress audio with streaming. Wont sound better than CD.I only play flac from a usb stick on my system. It sounds better than streaming.Finally, something true, although FLAC from Tidal is not compressed on playback,... | |
| Sound Quality of red book CDs vs.streaming There was an article in Sound On Sound about 10 years ago on jitter and how it was not really a problem for good modern dacs and like I said this was 10 years ago. The article did say if you are chaining multiple dacs then you would want an extern... | |
| Sound Quality of red book CDs vs.streaming Listen through OPPO 105D DAC and other high-quality devicesAll from HHD Hard diskThe files were transferred to the DAC via a 105D streamThis was a mess of unintelligible stuff, but I can see that you don't have the equipment that is up to the task... | |
| Does a ripped cd onto a digital format sound better than the cd played on the cdp Jitter makes it’s way into things everywhere it can. Even the DAC receiver and buffering add jitter. Cables don’t produce noise, but ground-loops do and dielectric absorption in the cable can distort the waveform causing ISI (inter-symbol-interfer... | |
| A very good ENGINEERING explanation of why analog can not be as good as digital.. They also missed the boat on putting the CD into a cartridge. Instead it is handled and scratched. Same with the DVD and Blu-Ray. Poorly engineered.Steve N.Empirical Audio | |
| A very good ENGINEERING explanation of why analog can not be as good as digital.. How did Sony management in the early 80s judge or determine who can hear what? Did they have a bevy of audiophiles on staff? I suspect it’s more likely the Redbook CD committee decided on 16/44 based on technical considerations and constraints onl... | |
| A very good ENGINEERING explanation of why analog can not be as good as digital.. Digital waveforms are continuous, but with a lot of spurious information in the highest frequencies.... and due to the way they are made, they may have artifacts which in particular, create a kind of annoying treble. Nonsense. If there is anything... | |
| Does a ripped cd onto a digital format sound better than the cd played on the cdp Yes, that's exactly it. It's counter intuitive. For an explanation see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grzoqEb2KMk&feature=youtu.beThis is a good explanation of how poor digital signal integrity can cause uncorrectable errors in playback. ... | |
| Does a ripped cd onto a digital format sound better than the cd played on the cdp +1 with Ivan.My experience has been that moving CDs to hard drive results in a slight decrease in sq. Perhaps Ivan has identified the reason. Streaming at “CD quality “ takes sq down another two notches.Let's not mislead people. Ivan is talking... | |
| Does a ripped cd onto a digital format sound better than the cd played on the cdp Depends on your digital hardware and software and your CD transport hardware. Whichever delivers the lower jitter and does not muck with the bits or the offset, that one will sound the best.In general, off-the-shelf transports have higher jitter ... | |
| Sound Quality of red book CDs vs.streaming I have listened to components that measure well on the J-test and I can still hear the jitter. When I drive these with lower jitter sources, they sound better. This is why I don't take much stock in the J-test. The correlation to audibility is ... | |
| So I have a DAC; now what Player should I look at? If you are starting out, I would recommend to avoid USB. Too many hoops to jump through to get good SQ and too much money spent.I use Ethernet with my Interchange DLNA renderer. This is functionally like a Sonos connect, but audio quality that is ... | |
| Sound Quality of red book CDs vs.streaming The problem is your digital equipment. Makes all the difference. What software are you using for FLAC playback?Steve N.Empirical Audio | |
| Apple TV Streaming Sound Quality vs Streamer? Steve from Empirical:Does the Synchro-Mesh improve the optical out of most TVs, especially Sony?Yes, customers of mine are using the Synchro-Mesh to reduce jitter from all different smart TV's as well as AppleTV.Does the Synchro-Mesh improve the o... | |
| A very good ENGINEERING explanation of why analog can not be as good as digital.. It’s a common misnomer that digital has "steps." To be fair, it seems intuitive that it does. But it doesn’t, as proven here. And analog has limited resolution, too - just as with digital.It is certainly not proven with this youtube. Digital is s... |