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| Anyone know how to determine bitrate/res on Stereophonic? OP probably means Primephonic.com, a classical only service They transmit in 44.1/16 or 48/24 but their streams are unmarked.Your need a program like MusicScope, which is no longer available, to see what they, or any other streamer, is actually s... | |
| Anyone know how to determine bitrate/res on Stereophonic? There is a program, no longer available, called MusicScope that gives that kind of information. | |
| Anyone know how to determine bitrate/res on Stereophonic? www.primephonic.comIt’s on everyone else’s Google.They stream classical music in 44.1/16 and 48/24 but they don’t tell you when they’re doing one or the other. But it is possible to tell. In fact, so far as I can tell it’s the only service that de... | |
| Anyone know how to determine bitrate/res on Stereophonic? @m669326Are you sure you don’t mean Primephonic? | |
| Bach Recording Recommendations For the Brandenburg Concertos I'd recommend the Dunedin Consort on a Linn Records SACD. Great performance and great sound. | |
| Are you troubled by the imaging of a symphony orchestra? @schubert Please share. Which halls are these?In New York the worst hall is Philharmonic Hall. No one has ever said anything good about it. They have redone it at least 4 times, never with much success. They had recently planned to do a total... | |
| Square purchases music streaming service Tidal Apparently Tidal is losing money, as are many of the streaming services. Can this go on for very much longer? | |
| Recommendations for 3rd party power supply for Chord 2qute? You probably cannot do better than a 12V SBooster. That being said there are many less expensive 12V LPS units available through eBay and elsewhere. A search on the forums will get you a list of those that have been used with success. As for "c... | |
| "Use your mentality" is the worst lyric ever. " I'm wild again, beguiled againA simpering, whimpering child again" | |
| Are you troubled by the imaging of a symphony orchestra? Harry Pearson once wrote that correct imaging is more important on recordings than in person, as with recordings you have no visual clues.That being said, IMO there is no reason not to have pretty perfect left to right imaging of instruments. I th... | |
| Question about SACD and DSD When you're using DLNA, you're not playing from or through the computer. The files are sent from the server (like a NAS or hard disk) to the DNLA bridge and out to the DAC. The computer is merely the digital media controller. | |
| Question about SACD and DSD formatting limitations? | |
| Question about SACD and DSD Sorry here, a typo: DLNA = Digital Living Network Alliance It is a device used so that your music files can bypass your computer while still using the computer to control the flow of music, as with JRiver. Bypassing the computer is good since it ... | |
| Question about SACD and DSD If you can manage ripping the SACD into .dsf files you can easily play them from a computer into your separate DAC. If the DAC has a USB input that would be the easiest. Otherwise you ca get a USB to spdif converter. Bypassing the Denon and g... | |
| Upgrade in streamer changed my mind on the Tidal vs Qobuz option First, Qobuz offers some higher than red-book resolution files.Beyond that, my own measurements, using MusicScope, suggest that the HIFI files of Tidal, which are advertised to be red-book quality, fall below that standard. They are far below usi... |