pippin wrote: > But wasn't the point to compare the quality of the services. That would > include masterings. Little sense in just comparing lossless vs. lossy, > in the end it's the audio quality you get for the money that counts. If > it's better, it's better, independent on what causes it. > > Also: don't forget that you might be more flexible in your mastering if > you don't have to take potential compression artifacts into account. > Although these usually affect lower bit rates much more.
I generally agree with your point. But a comparison of a specific album across the two services doesn't really tell you anything about the quality of the two services because the comparison *may* be confounded by the ignored variable of underlying album version. So the test would really be more about which service carries the *version* of the album you like best rather than which service is streaming a better quality track (i.e, without added compression, etc.). It may be that testing the latter is just fine. I'm just pointing out that your test is the "joint test" of both underlying mastering/version and streaming. *Location 1:* VortexBox 4TB (2.3) > LMS 7.8 > Transporter, Touch, Boom, Radio w/Battery (all ethernet except Radio) *Location 2:* VBA 3TB (2.3) > LMS 7.8 > Touch > Benchmark DAC I, Boom, Radio w/Battery (all ethernet except Radio) *Office:* Win7(64) > LMS 7.8 > Squeezelite *Spares:* several Touch, Radio, SB3 *Controllers:* iPhone4S & iPad2 (iPeng7 & Squeezepad), CONTROLLER, or SqueezePlay 7.8 on Win7(64) laptop *Files:* ripping: dbpoweramp > FLAC; post-rip: mp3tag, PerfectTunes; Streaming: Spotify ------------------------------------------------------------------------ garym's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=17325 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=102381 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
