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In Reply to: RE: About records and Cd's ( random rants) posted by Munkie_NL on February 24, 2015 at 05:58:28
I bought a Yamaha CDN-500 CDP/streamer a while ago. It's a fun toy. My tablet serves as a remote via the app. It streams MP3's etc. from the HD of my PC, it plays music from a USB stick, internet radio, CD's. It sounds OK with MP3's and FLACs. The CDP is OK for the price.
OTOH streaming takes a while to get going especially with Ubuntu. I should get myself a network HDD. At extra cost. Then rip my 2000 and growing CD collection. Then the music has to be streamed over 15 meters of cheap network cable. To my mid-fi streamer.
No contest for my 25 year old Sony X7ESD CDP. With good Cd's it still sounds amazing. Alas modern pop/rock productions are very compressed. Which partly explains why nobody buys CD's anymore. The production standards of pop/rock have fallen. Because there is no recording budget anymore. Thus there are no good studios anymore.
Oh BTW not only Cd's are dirt cheap. I bought a "new" CDP because my Sony broke down (thankfully it's repaired now). Consonance CDP, once new ca. 1800 euro, used for 350. Upsampling DAC, tube output stage. Even audiophiles are dumping their CDP's. Grab your chance.
"The torture never stops"Greetings Freek.
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...earbuds; they have very limited capabilities for dynamic range, at least the few that I have had occasion to use. One set that I had was just barely good enough for my cell phone.
Later Gator,
Dave
I think it's just the current trend in audio mixdown. Audio engineers don't use earbuds to mix the music with. They're still using mixing boards and studio monitors just like they've always done. Seems to me it's all the rage to compress and dirty up the sound, just like ear-bleedingly bright was in the early 1980's.
Trends always come to an end. The compressed and gritty sound will too.
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