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In Reply to: RE: Why do most digital recordings online sound bad? posted by ph5y on April 17, 2020 at 12:44:05
Most mainstream services use AAC or MP3 lossy compression and is noticeably lower quality sound than a CD or LP but often sufficient for casual listening for the consumer masses.Tidal streams in CD quality or theoretically better with MQA encoding/decoding. But even taking MQA out of the picture (it's mostly just smoke and mirrors) it sounds quite nice and on par with my CD's.
CD quality = 44,100 x 16-bits x 2 = 1.4112 Mbs
Qobuz streams in CD quality or better w/o MQA so depending on the tune it can be as high as
Hi-res PCM = 192,000 x 24-bits x 2 = 9.216 Mbs
I listen to my lossless CD rips as well as Qobuz and Tidal streaming. It's all very good and my CD player and TT haven't seen the light of day in years. They're both down in the basement collecting dust ;-)
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I am surprised by your statement about your turntable. I have many LP's with music that is not available in digital format as far as I know. And, for some of these, the LP sounds better than the digital version (for some it is the other way).
I brought the TT up from the basement for a couple weeks last year and played with it side-by-side with my digital gear. It sounds excellent but I became a little impatient with the rituals associated with vinyl.I would say that 99% of what I enjoy is readily available to me at my finger tips (on the iPad remote control) from my CD rips combined with streaming 'hi-res' from Tidal and Qobuz.
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nt
It's never too late to turn back the clock.
A simple experiment might be to rip a couple of CDs to a lossless format.
Now you know you have the same master and the same quality.
Play this on your PC.
If it sounds worse (internal DAC + internal amp) compared with the CD player, it is the hardware at the PC.
A external DAC might be an improvement.
The Well Tempered Computer
nt
It's never too late to turn back the clock.
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