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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georgehifi

Great idea for a thread. The measured proof would become provided via these server/streamer companies. Much like our cable or satellite TV companies(bandwidth, reception upload/upstream capabilities).
As above, all technology is finite in the digital realm. Compare/contrast against your favorite CD/SACD player(s). I have yet to hear a server/streamer below $20K that beats (no pun) my Reference spinners.

Happy Listening!