As always picking the low hanging fruit. As a large minority with some bying power always equal bitrate or sample freq with actual recording quality .
Then we will have "hifi" streaming services like tidal et al . But it is as random as ever they still rely on the labels to upload whatever they see fit . That's why I'm still on Spotify the 320k ogg format is good enough in most cases and if they sound different it's probably not the formats fault . I real hifi streaming service to me would be one with a smaller but hand curated content base with documented good recordings and mastering of important music in each genre . The streaming delivery format could even be a very good lossy encoding , for customer download I settle for CD to 24/96 depending on provenance no nonse to upsample stuff 24/48 is apearently a common master format in the real world . Basically I would buy the good mastered stuff in its real native digital format whatever that migth bee. With the exception of DSD which I think is nonsens as a delivery format ( try DSP room eq etc and crossover etc with that ). The best master of some work in256k MP3 would still trump any lesser master in 24/192 or glorious DSD . These charlatans lives of the confusing of actual recording quality with high bitrates are impressive sample formats . It the easy thing to provide . To provide actual good soundquality is hard and takes some effort . -------------------------------------------------------------------- Main hifi: Touch + CIA PS +MeridianG68J MeridianHD621 MeridianG98DH 2 x MeridianDSP5200 MeridianDSP5200HC 2 xMeridianDSP3100 +Rel Stadium 3 sub. Bedroom/Office: Boom Kitchen: Touch + powered Fostex PM0.4 Misc use: Radio (with battery) iPad1 with iPengHD & SqueezePad (spares Touch, SB3, reciever ,controller ) server HP proliant micro server N36L with ClearOS Linux http://people.xiph.org/~xiphmont/demo/neil-young.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mnyb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4143 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=105413 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
