rvpiano
Responses from rvpiano
| Sound Quality of red book CDs vs.streaming Some observations about the different streaming services for classical music:The best of course is IDAGIO because it is designed for classical.In classical works oftentimes there is no gap in between the tracks.Idagio, Qobuz and Spotify don’t inse... | |
| Streamer always on? Thanks, all. I’ll leave it on, even though it does have a switch. | |
| Sound Quality of red book CDs vs.streaming Just found “loudness normalization” in Tidal and disabled it: immediate improvement! | |
| Sound Quality of red book CDs vs.streaming I have a Cyrus transport. Both the Arcam and Cyrus are run the a Schiit Gumby DAC. I’m actually streaming Tidal, IDAGIO, Qobuz, and Spotify at different times.(All But IDAGIO are trials.) Tidal seems to be the best.I don’t know about loudness co... | |
| Sound Quality of red book CDs vs.streaming Well, after obtaining a streamer (Arcam,) and dumping Chromecast Audio, I still find CDs superior sonically to streaming when comparing identical tracks. The streamer is close though. | |
| Carpenters What a fantastic instrument that voice was.I still have most of the original albums in great shape. Sonically, not bad. | |
| Sound Quality of red book CDs vs.streaming If I knew Tidal streaming was so great I wouldn’t have ordered my new (non returnable) streamer. But I guess it’ll have more features. | |
| Sound Quality of red book CDs vs.streaming Even on my Chromecast Audio, Tidal sounds fantastic! | |
| Sound Quality of red book CDs vs.streaming In a head to head comparison between Tidal, Qobuz, IDAGIO and Spotify, Tidal does have the best SQ. Which creates a dilemma for the classical music lover. The search engine stinks vs. IDAGIO. Very hard to find a specific performance. Very easy ... | |
| Recommendation for DAC needed. Mike,Thank you much for your kind words. It’s always informative and a pleasure to speak with you. I’m hoping the Arcam streamer I’ve bought is going to improve things. Actually, I’m finding Chromecast Audio not all that bad after all. I don’t ... | |
| Sound Quality of red book CDs vs.streaming Lalitk,Now you tell me! LOLNo wonder I went crazy trying to squeeze blood out of a stone.Sounds like a great device, though. | |
| Sound Quality of red book CDs vs.streaming I signed up for the free trial on Tidal.Ive been trying for an hour to get hooked up to Aurender Conductor to no avail. I downloaded the Aurender app but can’t get it to work. | |
| Sound Quality of red book CDs vs.streaming Lalitk,Thank you for the info.Once you get Tidal, the Aurender app will work? | |
| Sound Quality of red book CDs vs.streaming Lalitk,I downloaded the app. How do I play it?Do I have to have Tidal? | |
| Recommendation for DAC needed. I’m keeping the Gumby for now. |