Am I the only guy w little or no interest in streaming high resolution?

No streaming for me because I already own many thousands of LPs & CDs, a vast qtys of FLACs + various SACDs. At age 60 I will be dead long before I could even listen to this lot one more time.

 

I actually do watch Youtube. My Sony TV is connected directly to the net, and I live in a college town and have very fast internet. I love finding old concert footage on Youtube. Sound is straight from the TV using optical into my integrated amp. The stuff I am watching isnt available anywhere else, and the sound is much better than listening to the TV speakers. That is the only digital I listen too.

 

Same ol’ gang’s just gotta come in and say that don’t stream at all and that’s not what this thread is about.

 

I just got a google chrome audio and have it now hooked up to my Yamaha cr1000 as I wanted to stream via Spotify and hear it on my tannoys (ie. my main system). And I gotta say, I love vinyl records, but this is pretty awesome too!

The best of multiple worlds

 

Zero. Interest. I have my 1200 or so CD's ripped onto a NAS drive and three (count'em, three) Bluesound Node 2's throughout the house to listen to my files.

Don't care about 24/96. Don't care about MQA. Don't care about Streaming.

 

No interest here either.

 

I have no interest in hi-res audio at all (CD quality is good). I've yet to see any convincing evidence of higher sample rates and bit depth make for a better listening experience. If we could get CD quality streaming that would be cool. MQA is lossy and not even CD quality regardless of whatever it is the sample rates say. I am not sure I believe in Hanlon's razor—that is to say while some supporters of MQA may simply be stupid, I think it is quite probable that some of them are in fact malicious and not ignorant at all.

So you're not the only one who isn't interested in hi-res streaming. I might be interested in CD quality streaming (I can't find any technical details on Tidal Hi-fi), but I want none of this MQA business. Hi-res seems like a waste of bandwidth.

 

This is what i cant grasp, people don't believe in high res audio but do believe in power cords lol.

 

SACD is high rez audio and I've got a lot of it, so stuff it.

 

Is it OK if I don't believe in either? I'm no electronics engineer but the power supply sections in all my equipment seem pretty complicated. I'd wager those do a lot more to the incoming current than a power cord could ever hope to accomplish.

 

I’m pretty ignorant on streaming so forgive me. Is there high resolution streamed? If it is streamed, how does it compare to high resolution discs? From what I’m getting, it seems like much of it is barely cd quality. If that’s so, I can live without it. I like buying discs, lp’s.

 

I once crossed the streams, since that, I rarely stream, and in private.

I have means, and do to sample something, but really rarely do.

 

Did your urologist put you on Alfuzosin too...?

 

We all have our limits. I'm 69, and I enjoy home-network streaming of HR audio, as I find it has great fidelity and is really convenient. However, I can understand that you old codgers don't want to be bothered. I think I'll probably skip the next development myself.

To each his own!

 

No interest in streaming. No interest in hi rez, come to that.

 

No streaming here either preferring physical media.

 

Well yeah, but we're talking about audio. To me, the idea is whether you hear if something makes for a better listening experience.

 

You are not alone my man.

 

I think there are more factors at play than bit rate numbers - similar to those crappy ass cameras that advertises 20 megapixels versus the cameras that had 6. If the latter has a fantastic glass lens and the former has a plastic piece of crap - the latter wins every time. And that analogy applies to audio. A really good CD player beats a mediocre SACD player playing SACD. At the California Audio Show - the three best sounding rooms all uses Non Oversampling Tube DACs with a transport. They frankly pounded every other room using hi-res sources. Does it mean hi-res sucks - probably not - it could just be the playback machines. I mean most people hated CD when it came out - partly that was the first CD mastering but it was also the horrible players (Solid State). It was when the likes of California Audio Labs came around where people felt CD was sounding better. Now the players that sound really good for CD are ALL non oversampling no digital filter R2R ladder DAC CD players. It's pretty hard to listen to CD if it is not one of these machines IME. But there are so few of these machines out there. So I sort of get why people feel SACD or hi res sounds better. Bettering the sound of likes of Meridian CD replay and the like isn't too difficult.

 

While we're discussion streaming, please will someone better informed than me clarify precisely what is meant by streaming.

I appreciate it is generally defined as listening to music over a data network and includes using services such as Spotify. However, I am not clear if it also includes listening to music files stored on say a NAS in the home.

If it is the former, I don't do it at high res although I am interested in doing so in future. My system is capable of doing so but I don't subscribe to the appropriate services. If it also includes the latter then I do it all the time.

 

For all ya non or slow streamers on this thread:

 

I’m not so interested in high resolution streams myself, though I do like Spotify Premium quite a lot. The quality of the 320kbs is more than enough to get acquainted with and to enjoy lots of new music that would otherwise be left unheard. But I still buy cd and vinyl records for more serious listening, and I think the physical object appeals more than a digital stream.

 

I'd stream if I knew what hardware was needed . I feel that I'm missing out and falling behind.

 

Not interested in streaming music. I prefer vinyl- it's as simple as that.

 

Hey, I'll try anything once or twice, if someone can convince me it sounds wonderful, then I'm in!!