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RE: Its all just dancing electrons...

Posted by mr.bear (A) on February 2, 2017 at 22:13:10

In Reply to: Do you have streaming capability on your main vinyl system? posted by RHerring on February 2, 2017 at 11:32:19:

Some dance like Gene Kelly (the ones coming out of my phono cartridge), some like Jed Clampett (the one from the internet streams). Its all entertaining!

I built a separate SFF PC solely to play music files and stream internet audio. It's part of the hi-fi now. I tried to benefit from the discussion on Digital Drive here on AA but that forum seems to be a chaotic, relentless battle between factions and manufacturers leading to no useful conclusions. They can't agree within 2 orders of magnitude how much jitter is audible, Sheesh... My little PC has all my CD's in it, around 2000 all in and I love having it play back through the DACs in my digital/theater front end (Lexicon MC-12). It is an essential part of the audio landscape here at the Bearcave- for instance it sure makes National Public Radio sound like Mara Liasson is right in the room speaking to you!

No reason they can't share the sound system downstream, if the digital stuff is at a sufficient level of resolution that it does't scream at you like fingernails on the chalkboard. I find that at modest listening levels, my system sounds about "as good" as FM radio when listening to internet streams of 192kBPS or better. I love "Radio Paradise" streaming radio and it has 320kBPS AAC which sounds indistinguishable from CD's on my system. I understand that is a function of the limitations of my system and hearing, both.

I suppose if the streamed stuff is a very highly compressed, lossy CODEC, one wouldn't want to play it in a way that you can her every hideous artifact loud and clear. Bluetooth and much "You Tube" audio falls into that category.

I try to be more tolerant of range of quality levels in any media "streams". 95% of my 3000 LPs are from before the Vinyl Gotterdmmerung (1983- commercial deployment the CD) and 50% are below average! Many have serious distortion, audio compression, high-pass filtering, noise, and every other sonic glop. I just like the music. Ditto for streamed stuff.

• Jed's Dixie Stomp   (Open in New Window)

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