It really depends on gear being used if you have a really good dac and streamer your streamed music may outperform your vinyl rig
Streaming Is To Audio What Red Plastic Cups Are To Wine
Unpacking and going through my vinyl collection, it occurs to me that vinyl is it, whereas streaming is Audio’s red plastic cup.
The best wines taste low-shelf in the red plastic cup. Yes, the red plastic cup is cheap and convenient, just like streaming. Wine should feel the same regardless of the vessel - it’s the same wine - but it does not. So should music - but it does not. Streamed music may sound (nearly) as good as vinyl, but it feels... disposable. Vinyl does not. Vinyl is the thing. Vinyl is it! Just my opinion, of course.
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Last July I heard the debut of the Wilson Sabrina V loudspeakers streaming was on dCS gear. I was able to play several tracks of Ann Burton- New York State Of Mind which ended up having superior SQ using my Japanese pressed CD on my home system. Yes, only 1 example but 99% + digitally streamed files have much poorer SQ than the Ann Burton recording. Also consider 99% + of Audiophiles do not own digital gear on the level of dCS. Streaming music at audio shows is used strictly for convenience nothing else. |
@kennymacc "Yet another vinyl vs digital/streaming debate (yawning)? " I don’t think it is a debate so much as a statement of individual priorities. I am a collector and collect records and CDs. They all sound however they sound to me. Mostly my interest is old jazz. It is axiomatic that a lot of the music I listen to is only available on old, scratchy records. Through the miracles of the times a lot of the noise can be ameliorated with a Sugar Cube, so it is all good. There is a lot of old jazz getting put on CDs too, mostly in the EU. For a collector, streaming is a search engine. What is there to debate? |
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