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RE: I'm ok with CDs.

>>How do the high-rez downloads compare to cd's or ripped cd's.

This is all specific to my playback system.

Higher quality be it lossless or higher resolution free concert recordings can sound really excellent and IMO comparable to the best quality live recordings I have on vinyl. These free digital downloads are mostly raw and unprocessed and the best of them are in my opinion similar to my favorite analog era live recordings that I have on vinyl.

I use dbPoweramp CD ripper to rip CDs and convert them to FLAC. Playing back those rips from a hard drive sounds better than playing the CDs even if the CDP is used as a transport and feed into the same DAC as the CD rips. I think I could find another CDP that gives better results in this comparison but I'm just going to deal with it this way. When the streamer gets into play I'll be looking for a new DAC for that - whether or not I'll use it for the rips is something to decide later.




Edits: 10/14/24

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