bhaagensen;318382 Wrote: > I agree that at higher bit rates lossy can sound quite good, and even > the low bitrates are OK for background listening and such. But > seriously, when listening to music, and by that I mean sitting in the > sweet spot with no books, newspapers, laptops etc, turn the volume up > and the lights down. Then 128k sounds nothing but crappy. Of course > "crappy" is relative to some baseline defined by the overall setup. > Better dacs, speakers, etc will move the "crappy"-threshold. But the > point is that the quality is so much worse than it could be with proper > source material. If the difference is not that significant in a system > with specs such as yours, then there must be something else missing in > the setup, such as room acoustics, speaker placement etc. :)
Yes, I am in the sweet spot, lights down, refrigerator not running, eyes closed, etc, etc. and I'm telling you the 128k stream sounds wonderful. 3-dimensional, detailed, coherent, very musical. I am surprised by how good it sounds. My speaker placement, room acoustics, etc are all in good shape. I can play an SACD of the same recording I'm hearing on Pandora, but this does not make the 128k version sound 'crappy' at all. The SACD has even more detail and transparency but the 128k version still sounds really good, I can't hear anything "wrong" with it on most recordings. Maybe it would help if you could describe what you hear as 'crappy' when listening to the 128k streams and I can compare it to what I'm hearing. -- kh6idf ------------------------------------------------------------------------ kh6idf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16848 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=49648 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
