JerryS wrote: > ... My questions are, given the choice, should I be buying remastered or > non-remastered music? Am I likely to be able to hear the difference > anyway since I can't tell the difference between mp3 and flac? ... > > Thanks > Jerry Since nobody can seriously give you a definitive answer, I would suggest this - stop buying, start streaming.
Luckilly, you already have a server running that can stream from qobuz (flac, mp3, good classical and jazz catalogue) and spotify (highest ogg) and google play (320 mp3). Spotify will cost you $10, qobuz 20 EUR, google under $10. Quite often you can listen to the original version and to the remeastered version (latest Callas for example). You could make up your mind which version you like best and then decide to buy or download. This comparison nirvana (I like creating playlist of the same classical work by anumber of artists and then compare them) is something that was not feasible before streaming arrived, if you are not billionaire that is, now it is possible and inexpensive. As a result, in the last year, I bought maybe a couple of CD's of material that I could not stream. I'm silently lurking on rmcr classical recordng forum and can't get over the fact that people don't appreciate streaming there (even if on a PC or smartphone, squeezebox is beyond average member capacity to handle), they constantly talk about what version they own and how to import the next version from Japan or Germany. You don't have to do that, save your money. George Transporter->Pathos Logos->Triangle Celius Touch->Yamaha RX-V673 -> Paradigm Monitor 7 2 Duets, 1 Boom, 1 SB3, 1 Touch, 1 Radio, Transporter Samsung Galaxy IIS -> Sennheiser HD 380 Pro 2 servers -> Arch Linux, Ubuntu Linux ------------------------------------------------------------------------ matka's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=34878 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=102391 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
