2L is one of the niche labels ( like aix ) that do true hirez recordings but that's <0.01 % of the content needed to drive a streaming network ? and audiophile labels rarely records any real musician that anyone care to listen to with some notable exceptions like Opus 3 recording the excellent Eric Bibb .
What about all the other music ? Should you dimension the network for content never listened to . It's like building freeways for NASA's crawler ( that pulls the rocket to the launch pad ). i think I have 40% of all aix discs and I do listen 2-5 of them regularly . And they did a good effort to find musically viable artists to record , a good try and I respect that . But it's hard doing it the other way around as the audiophile labels do . " let's do a good record " who should be on it ? The amount of records "worthy" of this treatment ( let's pretends it does something for a moment ) is so small that everyone interested probably have half of them in thier shelves already ? Or on thier hard drives . So why stream it ? Sites likes HD tracks seems to have a lot of hirez records . Buts that's not really true ,they are sold in 24/192 containers but are mostly the same stuff as ever , most bits will be noise with all the 60's Rock records they sell as pretend hirez when 16 bit 44.1 kHz probably would preserve all the fidelity they ever had Most good labels do have a strong artistic vision behind them , documenting a genre or music styles that they love . I would like to try this on a cocktail party , let's listen to the shiefeild labs drum record followed by Jazz at the pawnshop... ;) boo It just that nobody attacks the real problem the subpar recordings we are swamped with ! All our current distributing formats is good enough for them , they are not yet a problem . We can open this discussion again when everyone has the same intrinsic recording quality as 2L AIX or Linn et all . -------------------------------------------------------------------- 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=102648 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
