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CD v Streamed



Uncompressed CD audio will take about 10.6mb per minute to play, to stream that takes big space and dollars to stream an album, see what your streaming company’s takes mb per minute to stream, find out and post up here.

I hear CD’s are better, I get better dynamic range from CD every time it’s A/B to me, now that could be that the streaming companies are using the "later compressed re-issues" of the same albums, you can find that out here https://dr.loudness-war.info/
Or that the streaming process itself compresses the music to save "streaming size" to save big dollars even if in small amounts.

Here’s a video from the CEO of Disc Makers Pty Ltd, yes he probably also biased because he manufacturers CD’s and vinyl, and is a very bad dancer.
https://youtu.be/YHMCTUl2FQo?t=1

Cheers George
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charles1dad
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@river251,
Agree that the issue of compressed recordings via streaming services is worth exploring and exposing. If this practice is the norm then if does cause one to contemplate the value/need of higher price streamers. If this focused attention results in an increased use (Default choice) of uncompressed streamed files that would be commendable.
Charles
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charles1dad
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@duckworp, 
I appreciate your comments.  In fairness, George has been quite consistent in pointing out that the fundamental issue is streaming providers opting to stream the more compressed "mastered"  versions of recordings. 

Simply correcting this pattern and offering instead the lower compression (Usually the earlier versions)  recordings would result in a noticeable improvement of the streamed sound quality. This could be implemented easily. 
Charles 
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@thyname,
Wrote, "I don’t know why. I don’t know what to measure, don’t have the measuring gear. That is what ears tell me."

"Streaming has long ways to go IMO."

Maybe not as long a way to go as you think. If your streaming service is using the more compressed version of recordings, that's a significant bottleneck.  If they made the commitment to stream only  the least compressed versions of available recordings it would be a big step forward. 

You do not  need to measure anything.  You can inquiry and request information from your streaming service company  as explained earlier by the OP. He's right concerning the deleterious effect of compressing recordings. 
Charles 
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