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In Reply to: RE: Are the tracks on your Iphone MP3? posted by token on July 10, 2015 at 07:55:49
From the Pandora website:
"Pandora on the Web plays 64k AAC+ for free listeners and 192kbps for Pandora One subscribers. All in-home devices play 128kbps audio, and mobile devices receive a variety of different rates depending on the capability of the device and the network they are on, but never more than 64k AAC+."
Compare that to the 1411 kbps of your CD's and you can see how the audio quality suffers when listening through Pandora. Your equipment is fine and as you state it sounds great with CD's. Even with much lower quality audio gear you can hear the difference. Your gear is showing the gap in source quality.
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Thanks for the great insight. Sounds like Pandora is the choke factor and even upgrading their service will not improve quality via my phone. Nor will audioengine though it gets raves. Interesting dilemma in that i have to dumb down my equip to get better digital sound quality.
The sound will only be as good as the source. IMO. At one time i had an old transistor radio hooked up to a KHorn by cutting off the ear piece, and yes the little 9V thing had enough power to drive the KHorn. I just wanted some "noise" while I was moving in, yep the first thing in the place was my KHorns. It sounded "OK" but nothing compared to the normal electronics i drove them with. I run into the same thing when I play old mp3's, the lower the bit rate the worse the sound.......
May He Who Watches Over Us All, Watch Over You And Yours.
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