Thread 127317354

What is this voodoo? I thought that it was the other way. But the CD sounds better than my expensive DAC system. More dimension and more soul.

just wait till u play a vinyl record on a good set

>>127317354 (OP)
>lossless sounds better than lossy!
and in other news water is wet

>>127317354 (OP)
Compact disc is the best physical media platform for music and I’m tired of pretending it’s not.

>>127317354 (OP)
CD's are digital.
Maybe the DAC in the CD player is better than the DAC in your DAC system?
Is it a Sony CD player.
If it is that's why.
Sony always made the best DACs.

Statistically, most people today are listening to heavily compressed music. Spotify's free tier caps out at 160kbps, most web players don't go above 128kbps and youtube videos will occasionally dip into the double digit territory. The whole "you can't tell a difference" psyop worked and now everyone is totally fine with lossy audio being the norm. It's to the point where even basic bitch 320kbps seems out of reach, let alone CD quality FLAC. This has nothing to do with format wars or authenticity, it's literally been the case for many years now that people are accustomed to low bitrate signals getting transmitted to their ears, something that wasn't even an issue before mass Internet adoption.

>>127317626
friendly reminder - DVD audio is mp3. if you want lossless quality hardcopy then bluray

>>127317354 (OP)
It's the EQ effects built into the player. I have a high end Panasonic CD player that is one of those super thin ones that takes gumstick batteries and it has all these spatial 3D settings for EQs, bass boost and treble tweaks. Anyhow when I dial it in to something I like, it is very immersive and completely different than listening to pure digital on a DAC.

Sony always has the bass boost tech as one of their selling points. They clearly have spent money and research optimizing that algorithm. I'd go further and suggest that applies to the 3D sound effects too. I still like my Panasonic but I've owned Sony's in the past and they all had exceptional sound quality.

>>127317354 (OP)
CD is digital. You're just comparing uncompressed wavs to compressed music on streaming. Download FLAC

>>127317813
>>127317602
Nope I am listening to lossless FLAC on a schiit DAC.

It really makes no sense.

>>127317663
It may be this, the EQ on these CD players is probably tuned to make it come alive. Whereas all digital will ever be is a photo copy of the raw file.

>>127317354 (OP)
>CDs
>Not digital

>>127317354 (OP)
There's both digital. You probably mean better than streaming, and you're probably right because the streaming version is remastered garbage.

>>127317813
FLAC only matters for archival. You can't hear the difference between FLAC and correctly encoded high bitrate MP3. Hear for yourself:
https://abx.digitalfeed.net/lame.320.html

>>127318222
well no. streaming uses dithering to save bandwidth. most songs on streaming have a really poor bitrate.

>>127318286
>uses dithering to save bandwidth
It doesn't. Dithering is used to approximate higher bit *depth* at low bit depths. Bit depth is not the same as bit rate.
>most songs on streaming have a really poor bitrate.
Spotify for advertising cucks ("free") is 128kbps AAC. AAC is about twice as efficient as MP3, so you can't tell the difference there either:
https://abx.digitalfeed.net/spotify.html

>>127318229
>FLAC only matters for archival.
Wrong, it's the ideal way to experience music.
>You can't hear the difference between FLAC and correctly encoded high bitrate MP3.
Yes you can, albeit in very specific sections of songs and only after extensive ABX tests. Hardware has little to nothing to do with it. The signal is just pure and untainted.

been saying this for years and people called me crazy. Digital just isn't the same

>>127318229
Archival is a realistic concern. You better have FLACs or else you'll be making lossy-to-lossy transfers for the rest of your life. The internet to come is authoritarian. They'll force everyone to use VPNs to circumvent their laws, then they'll make it illegal to use VPNs. Data hoarders will be vindicated bigtime, my blu ray remuxes and FLACs will be very valuable to me

>>127317860
>schiit DAC.
Well, get a gjuud one

CDs are digital you retards, it's most likely a different mastering on the cd.

how has nobody mentioned the cd player's esp/shock protection mechanism? I was surprised when I found out these players compromise lossless audio for bump protection. I know you can turn it off (I can't tell the difference when it's off), but even then the audio quality is still pretty good. Just a shame that these players don't live up to their name, Walkman. Maybe that's why they changed the name to Discman.

>>127317645
ackshually its MP2

>>127320770
What is the best way to keep a back up?

>>127317354 (OP)
Only the quality of the basednd system youre listening in matters. Everything else is a meme

>>127317354 (OP)
CD is digital. Get a better CD player or a better DAC.

>>127322692
physical copies of your CDs

>>127317354 (OP)
They have a thicker, deeper, heavier punchier sound. They are definitely the best sounding format out of all of them, including vinyl. If I really like an album, I'm gonna get the CD.

>>127325424
I have thousands of CDs. I want to back up the FLAC too

>>127322692
Buy four HDDs, build a NAS, configure it in RAID 10

>>127325531
cheers

>>127325491
https://wiki.grey.fail/books/the-grey-audio-reference/page/how-to-flawlessly-use-eac-to-rip-on-windows

>>127325491
https://wiki.grey.fail/books/the-grey-audio-reference/page/how-to-install-and-setup-eac-to-make-flawless-rips-on-windows

(deleted previous post because it didn't start on the first step, this is a multi step guide)

>>127325784
Thanks, but I already have them all ripped to FLAC via EAC.

>>127325812
But did you set it up according to this guide? This guide originates from the best private torrent tracker for music, redacted. They give each CD rip a score based on the settings that were used to rip it. If you set up EAC according to the guide you will get a 100% log. I don't even bother downloading anything that doesn't have one because it will just get replaced by something that does in the future, unless it's something super rare like an unmastered promo CD-R or some shit.

>>127325845
yup, I used to upload stuff to some of the older trackers that went down

>>127325918
I wish I could buy CDs to upload myself. I did when I was living in the US. Where I am at now I'd need to pay far out the ass to get them shipped in. I might end up doing it with some I really want anyway.