My Innuos Zen 3 through the Denafrips Pontus sounds excellent. It stores CDs on its hard drive and I also use it to stream from Qobuz. Qobuz is handy but even hi-res files don’t sound as good as CD.
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 - has your friend at Sound Stage Au done a review on either Australian made, The Gieseler Company DAC or Lenehan Audio loudspeakers? Not sure, have a bit of search though here, https://www.soundstageaustralia.com/ he’s done a few, and if older than around 4 years look at the 6 Moons site where he was head reviewer, before starting up SoundStage Australia Cheers George |
I am not sure why the need to choose. I prefer CDs, or CDs burned to a HD, to streaming content from the likes of Qobuz. The only measurements I have are my ears. It doesn’t require much imagination to see why the content provider or the ISP have incentives to compress sources and throttle bandwidth. I think that Qobuz sounds inferior, but it isn’t a night and day, it’s a subtle difference. However, do we need to argue it? We can have it all. Play CDs, burn them to a HD, or stream them. A streaming subscription costs the price of a decent download. Don’t want a dedicated streamer? Use a PC. We live in a time of fantastic sonic replay. Live and let live |
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