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  • mep
    mep replied to the thread Streaming vs CD’S.
    Yeah. Your listening to a version that's not what it's purported to be. It's not a native 24/96 file. You are listening to a file...
  • mep
    mep replied to the thread Streaming vs CD’S.
    I don't have any SACDs of Tumbleweed Connection so I have no idea how it sounds. Qobuz has two versions and both are 16/44.1. One is...
  • Nikhil
    Nikhil reacted to Mike's post in the thread Munich 2025 with Like Like.
    https://gy8.eu/blog/munich-high-end-2025-places/?fbclid=IwQ0xDSwKgNhJleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHrEbi2BHfQ1Gf4wV3WImWmoVeV15GyZLqSEi4KFl3tsYy-dwzbo...
  • rbbert
    rbbert replied to the thread Streaming vs CD’S.
    If one can't easily hear the excess dynamic compression on the 2004 Polydor SACD of Tumbleweed Connection I despair.
  • rbbert
    rbbert replied to the thread Streaming vs CD’S.
    You are crazy, I don't know how else to express it. Downsampling is not "digital hocus pocus"; it is throwing away some information...
  • M
    Mechnutt replied to the thread Arendal 1528 Speakers.
    Thank you Mep. If anyone lives in the Twin Cities area, they are welcome to come over for a listen.
  • M
    Mechnutt reacted to mep's post in the thread Arendal 1528 Speakers with Like Like.
    Congrats on buying a pair of speakers you love!.
  • mep
    mep replied to the thread Arendal 1528 Speakers.
    Congrats on buying a pair of speakers you love!.
  • mep
    mep replied to the thread Streaming vs CD’S.
    Nope. If they claim an album was recorded at a certain bit depth and sampling rate and it was upsampled or downsampled from the native...
  • SCAudiophile
    SCAudiophile reacted to Mike's post in the thread Streaming vs CD’S with Like Like.
    True! Esoteric, Luxman, TEAC (CD3000) and Marantz (10 series) are ones we carry.
  • rbbert
    rbbert replied to the thread Streaming vs CD’S.
    It has been about 20 years since I compared, and my system has changed dramatically since then, so I will do some comparisons again (I...
  • rbbert
    rbbert replied to the thread Streaming vs CD’S.
    Are you kidding me? You are trying to equate downsampling from 24/192 to 24/96 with upsampling from 16/44.1 to either of those formats??
  • Mike
    Mike reacted to Randy Myers's post in the thread Streaming vs CD’S with Like Like.
    DSD is, all else being equivalent, the most analog sounding digital format. I read a while ago that many record companies were doing...
  • Randy Myers
    Randy Myers replied to the thread Streaming vs CD’S.
    DSD is, all else being equivalent, the most analog sounding digital format. I read a while ago that many record companies were doing...
  • Ritmo
    Ritmo reacted to ClarisysAudio's post in the thread Roy Gregory GY8 - Best of Show by a country mile - Clarisys Audio with Like Like.
    https://gy8.eu/blog/munich-high-end-2025-places/
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