In Reply to: 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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- RE: Why do most digital recordings online sound bad? - AbeCollins 18:41:10 04/18/20 (5)
- RE: Why do most digital recordings online sound bad? - airheadair 18:50:28 04/23/20 (1)
- RE: OK there's a little white lie in my last comment - AbeCollins 19:42:51 04/23/20 (0)
- Thanks for your comments! nt - ph5y 19:52:42 04/18/20 (2)
- RE: Thanks for your comments! nt - Roseval 06:43:12 04/19/20 (1)
- Good idea! As soon as I can find my CD player(-: nt - ph5y 07:12:15 04/19/20 (0)