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In the Forum: Melquiades Amplifier
In the Thread: Valve Preamplifier for Macondo/DSET
Post Subject: Streaming vs. Streaming.Posted by Romy the Cat on: 4/28/2019
Again, I have advocated this subject again
and again. Streaming is not a second-class source. It is all depends of what
you are streaming. If you stream a source of unknown origin (which is 99.9% of
the files that you do now own) then it is wild west and you deal with absolutely
unpredictable quality. A single and simple rate conversion, volume change or
any other DSP processing on the side of the file owner will lead sonic
degradation much greater then use of a few shifty line-level preamps sequentially
connected. So, when I am taking about streaming and if we presume a conversation
have any sense then we are talking about streaming our own files, known to use quality
from our own drives. “the albums are downloaded first” in most of case are
very bad. The houses that sell music files has no sound quality working culture;
this has been proven zillion times. You basically have mp3 leave crap that being
unsampled to the format of your choice.
Even if you have a production CD that might act
as a common reference of some kind of quality then there is a great variation how
the CD was pressed, who did it and what vintage of the pressing. Not the last
factor is how the CD was ripped. There are great differences and have seen some
stanning examples that quality of ripped made huge difference. So, streaming
might mean absolutely different things. The best streaming that I have seen were
raw digital master-copies sold to me non-commercially with an assurance that
there was no processing on the files performed or my own digital files made
from my own conversion of some of my LPs.
Again, most of the crap out there is garbage on term of
sound quality unless you know (trust)
the source personally and can control the whole chain.
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