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Lossless streaming: Can you really hear a difference?

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Curly
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Curly replied on Thu, Jul 23 2020 2:26 PM

Here’s a pertinent and recent discussion in this topic.

 

https://archivedforum2.beoworld.org/forums/p/42885/312042.aspx#312042

 

My experience was that steaming TIDAL MQA to my BL18 vía a Bluesound Node 2i sounded the same to me as steaming TIDAL non-MQA.

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jc replied on Fri, Jul 24 2020 9:24 AM

To add my 1 cent... there's a song called 'The Asphalt World', by UK band Suede.

I listened to it on CD (BS3000 connected to BL20) countless times. Then I moved to the BS Core with Spotify. I couldn't listen to it anymore. The great part of the song just sounded ugly.

Lately, I moved to Deezer HiFi. And it sounds exactly like it did on the CD: I'm in love again.

Maybe this song was just terribly compressed by Spotify, but the difference with this song is night and day.

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leosgonewild replied on Fri, Jul 24 2020 10:58 AM
Parov Stellar’s music is all mastered in 320kbps. So what is the definition of high definition on his music?

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leosgonewild replied on Fri, Jul 24 2020 10:59 AM
Most of us could stop dikcing around with specs, and start actually listening to music again Stick out tongue

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chartz replied on Fri, Jul 24 2020 5:51 PM

jc:

To add my 1 cent... there's a song called 'The Asphalt World', by UK band Suede.

I listened to it on CD (BS3000 connected to BL20) countless times. Then I moved to the BS Core with Spotify. I couldn't listen to it anymore. The great part of the song just sounded ugly.

Lately, I moved to Deezer HiFi. And it sounds exactly like it did on the CD: I'm in love again.

Maybe this song was just terribly compressed by Spotify, but the difference with this song is night and day.

I have an exact opposite example, actually, where the Spotify version is way better than  the Qobuz 24/96: Oscar Peterson's We Get Requests. Oh well! Stick out tongue

 

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laseralex replied on Mon, Nov 9 2020 7:03 AM

jc:
To add my 1 cent... there's a song called 'The Asphalt World', by UK band Suede.
jc:
de.

 

I stumbled across your post in a search for a completely different topic, but decided to pull this song up in Deezer HiFi on my Moment.

 

Absolutely brilliant!  Thanks for letting me know about this!

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