For streaming the small bitrate is a good thing , especially for the service that streams , keeping bandwidth low . If you have decent ISP your bandwith is not a problem , I can only imagine the loads Tidal and Spotify has....
But for downloadable files ? Then a 24/96 PCM / Flac file is much better , it's more money in a sold file it could easily cover bandwith cost . And you download once . If you stream you use bandwith every time you listen . But the industry might like a file format that's not quite a copy of the studio master . If they get common , we might actually see some intense reverse engineering as people would,like foobar2000 plugins etc , KODI anyone ? . And people would expect things like jriver, media monkey and dBpower amp to be able to convert the files . Some of these apps are paid for so they could probably license . -------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
