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On my You Tube feed I am just now seeing programming with "Hi-Rez Audio" stamped on them. The thing is they sound darn good. Are they really putting high bandwidth stuff through now?
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I have found the Amazon Fire stick to be helpful for videos.
There are many classical concerts on youtube that, notwithstanding their technical audio limits, are subjectively in very good sound. Some that I have seen recently that are very good, and (surprisingly) give a good sense of the hall are the more recent concerts by the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra under Louis Langrée.
The Fire stick (among others) also is a gateway to the Berlin Philharmonic's digitalconcerthall. Outstanding sound that is generally in 48/24 through the stick. These are live performances with an audience, so close mikes and a more direct sound. Though there's a paywall, there are many concerts that are up and free.
An amazing sense of the Berlin hall is found in Albrecht Mayer's beautiful solo on a special instrument in an empty hall during the series of concerts made available (and still there) during the Covid outbreak.
Our streaming Sony TVs connect to external audio via eARC. I listen to a lot of music using Roon, but today was my first time using YouTube with eARC to a KEF LS60 augmented with a pair of KEF KC62 subs. I was amazed by the quality of sound. It may not be Hi-Rez; I don't know, but it's damn good.
What is HiRez? Bits and sampling freq or sound. Regardless, some of these Netflix movies sound excellent.
IME when comparing the same music file on youtube vs lossless file, at times the youtube files sound more forgiving, smoother, less hard, especially if the original losssless file was mixed too forward, edgy. Of course, well-recorded lossless files sound better with more detail resolution and purity.
Youtube audio caps at 256 kbps even at "HD 1080p". Perhaps the reference is to the source, not what you actually get.
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256k AAC is what Apple was selling in their iTunes downloads for a number of years. It can sound very good - and proven to be better than comparable bit rate (256k) MP3.
BUT.... it's not hi-res.
just not like lossless 88/24 or higher. ;)
I have a few commercially downloaded albums available only in 320kbps LAME MP3. Still enjoy the music!
Understood that it's supposed to be only 256 K. But man it sounds better than it has any right to. Separation, space, clarity... all the audio geek descriptions. I guess they are making every bit count. Yesterday I heard the song What A Difference A Day Makes by Dinah Washington on a Netflix movie. I have never heard her music / voice sound so crystal clear.
After hearing 16 bit 44.1 at the Dallas show a month ago in several rooms, I felt like the perfect sound forever LP people can put that line to bed. It's not like vinyl didn't have an 80 year head start. Then this weekend John DeVore comes along snd plays 78 RPM recordings through his new speakers. People in the room were impressed. Lucky for you and I, being the same age, will be able to hear what more is in store for extracting sound from whatever medium.
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