georgehifi
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| CD Quality Versus Streaming Quality George's point, and others', there is now the business opp for someone to go root out the various DR ranges among versions, and offer that to us. I'd pay a serious premium for uncompressed, or less mixes that exist Our hi-end needs more stateme... | |
| More watts or better power ? marktheshark OP PS Audio BHK Preamp to a Pass Labs XA25, Class A, Sonus Faber Minima Amator II What would be a better investment (most bang for the buck) Sell both of these and get an Integrated 120w Gryphon Diablo 120 it has the Class-A sound ... | |
| GaN based amplifier made in the USA from Class-D Audio USA Forgot about those, still 1/2 the price of them also.And the Class-D Audio USA amps have 100kohm input impedance, good for anything to drive them even passives, and the also have input gain adjustment so you can go direct into them from a dac (w... | |
| CD Quality Versus Streaming Quality George - would you mind checking out apple music Sure here are 65 x Apple I found on DRDB website, same thing, as you can see early ones not so compressed, then more compressed as they get younger in release datehttps://dr.loudness-war.info/album... | |
| Why demagnitize an optical reader? Snake oil and voodoo. These forums are full of shillers shilling it, (fuses being the biggie)Somehow it needs to be policed better, you won’t find this sort of c**p on forums like diyAudio as the designers like Pass, Curl etc etc etc and others, s... | |
| CD Quality Versus Streaming Quality Like I said Audiogone, hello background/car/dinner music/walking music. Unless the issue is fixed, and the only ones to do that are the hi-end guys to force it. Others don’t give a **** if it’s compressed.Again for those, listen to this. https://w... | |
| CD Quality Versus Streaming Quality but whaddya expect for $12.49/month? Trouble is it is/going to take over from CD no doubt, and if it becomes the only way of getting music, the hi-end will be Audiogon, and so will talk/maybe the owning of very hi-end equipment, because it suits c... | |
| CD Quality Versus Streaming Quality It’s simple streamers/downloaders ask the companies for it, the provenance (cat.no. issue history) of the music you want, and force the issueIt’s the only way to stop getting the "compressed issues", is for the streaming/download companies to give... | |
| CD Quality Versus Streaming Quality George is ABSOLUTELY correct to cite how new albums found on streaming services are indeed, compressed from a dynamic range standpoint.And that’s where it ends for me, if it’s had the very life squashed out of it, I don’t want this "compressed st... | |
| CD Quality Versus Streaming Quality If you have a high quality dac ,and very good streamer a key to help ensure noise is at its minimum All this means "nothing" when the music you stream or download is compressed, as shown, in the last few pages, have you read them??No amount of mon... | |
| CD Quality Versus Streaming Quality I’ve been comparing quite a bit lately. My ears tell me the story. CD beats steaming (even high res) 9 out of 10 times. Most likely because the later streamed re-releases, are far more compressed than your "older issue" less compressed CD’s.And w... | |
| CD Quality Versus Streaming Quality And here we go!!!, Just managed to search the DRDB site for just Qobuz entries 3 pages were ID’d and yes mainly only the latest compressed re-issues https://dr.loudness-war.info/album/list/1?album=QobuzThere are sprinkling of untouched uncompresse... | |
| CD Quality Versus Streaming Quality BTW just found another Qobuz compressed to the max re-issue https://dr.loudness-war.info/album/view/186934Cheers George | |
| CD Quality Versus Streaming Quality (WITH the caveat that George points out too - provided they're the exact same mix/ release of the album.)”The test was as follows; On my son’s system, a Devialet Expert Pro 220 driving Magico S3 through Synergistic Research Foundation speak... | |
| What's in your CDP tonight? the minority report Just got a used Rickie Lee Jones Pop Pop cd for $5, amazing, extremely dynamic album, shame about the album cover though.Looks like she doesn’t allow compression of any sort even with her re-issues, then it was late 90’s and later it started to ... |