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| CD Quality Versus Streaming Quality jpeters568 Your CD player, when it encounters an error, does correct that error by "guessing" essentially. (I’m not an expert on that, but, that’s what I too have gathered online.)I’m not guessing or relying on what I’ve read online. You can actua... | |
| CD Quality Versus Streaming Quality georgehifiIt’s simple streamers/downloaders ask the companies for it, the provenance (cat.no. issue history) of the music you want, and force the issue. It’s the only way to fix getting the "compressed issues", is for the streaming/download ... | |
| CD Quality Versus Streaming Quality grannyringIt takes effort, learning and attention to the details to get great sound out of streaming ... How the streaming signal gets to your streamer is perhaps even more important than the streamer.That’s probably true. And if you’re suffering ... | |
| CD Quality Versus Streaming Quality grannyringAgain, many recordings on Qobuz sound great. Still very enjoyable ... No need to throw the baby out with the bath water in terms of enjoying the streaming format. Nothing is perfect in this world ...Exactly. There have always been poorly... | |
| CD Quality Versus Streaming Quality jpeters568And cleeds - you’re explanation to the aforementioned user - the ECC built into a CD is absolutely ZERO match for ECC built into any modern ISP’s network or a decently modern home network.So what? Compact disk and streaming audio protoc... | |
| CD Quality Versus Streaming Quality 4afsanakhan It stands to reason that bits is bits.Things are not always as they appear at a quick glance.Streaming should sound no different than the CD. They are both after all 1s an 0s that are checked to be bit perfect.That is mistaken. While o... | |
| Two amps, one preamp, one sub… james633"...Do you think he subwoofer settings will need to be adjusted for each amplifier?..." If they are truly the same wattage they will not really need adjusted. Wattage has nothing to do with it. What matters is the amplifiers' gain. If ... | |
| Rippling cones mijostyn. @cleeds , I respectfully disagree on this one. I have a number of records on which the rumble is atrocious. All records have some rumble to an extremely variable degree from almost dead quiet to ridiculous ...If an LP is "almost dead qui... | |
| Rippling cones jasonbourne52... A subsonic filer is the best solution here! All phono stages should have a low filter. Placing a TT on a heavier base will not fix this. It is inherent in LPs. It wastes amplifier power!Rumble does indeed waste amplifier, but i... | |
| Parts Availability Grado has always been good with parts and service. | |
| Stacking Components Stacking is especially unwise with phono stages, which work with very low signals and are vulnerable to noise. | |
| HiFi News Test Record Azimuth chakster@cleeds No, I think you didn’t get the point. It’s not about platter, mat or clamp or ring weight that anyone can use. It’s about vinyl record profile (you can’t change it)@chakster I understand your point about the LP's profile. My po... | |
| HiFi News Test Record Azimuth chakster ... only Flat Profile from the lead-in groove to the run-out groove can guarantee there is no pitch to the profile, allowing your stylus to play truly perpendicular to the grooves from edge to center ... look at the profile thickness, con... | |
| HiFi News Test Record Azimuth millercarbonIf the cartridge is well made then the stylus is aligned with the cantilever is aligned with the generator is aligned with the body. Therefore we can look at the body. So what do we need a mirror for? Using the reflection magnifies... | |
| Turntable isolation platform Recommendations? mijostyn Critical Mass and Townsend make inexpensive, 1/2 baked stuff that no respectable lab would ever put an electron microscope on. A turntable's requirements are just as stringent.Perhaps that's true for a cheap turntable, but what many a... |