World's First Lossless High Resolution Immersive Streaming Service

[Rottmannash]

World's First Lossless High Resolution Immersive Streaming Service

Audio: Listen to this article. In the early days of computer audio and local high resolution files, all streaming platforms offered lossy MP3 quality music. Remember that? It seems like forever ago. Now, we have lossless high resolution streaming from several services and we consider this standar...

audiophilestyle.com

Looks interesting but early stages of development.

 

[wiggum]

Opus/AAC at 192kbps laughs at you.

 

[Rottmannash]

Don't understand your comment.

 

[wiggum]

Don't understand your comment.

It means that the audio codecs Opus & AAC at a bitrate of 192kbps are essentially transparent to listeners. They are unable to distinguish it from lossless files, so any service offering lossless is of little practical value other than bragging that you are subscribed to such a service.

 

[theREALdotnet]

any service offering lossless is of little practical value other than bragging that you are subscribed to such a service.

You mean, like driving a Mercedes?

 

[Travis]

It means that the audio codecs Opus & AAC at a bitrate of 192kbps are essentially transparent to listeners. They are unable to distinguish it from lossless files, so any service offering lossless is of little practical value other than bragging that you are subscribed to such a service.

BUT, assuming you could get lossless for the same price, similar selection, maybe even a better interface and/or Roon compatibility, wouldn’t you? I know, it’s a lot of assumptions.

 

[wiggum]

You mean, like driving a Mercedes?

No, Mercedes-Benz were the pioneers in ESC(Electronic Stability Control), so buying a Mercedes is not a bad value proposition though not now as every carmaker is
required to offer it by law.

 

[wiggum]

BUT, assuming you could get lossless for the same price, similar selection, maybe even a better interface and/or Roon compatibility, wouldn’t you? I know, it’s a lot of assumptions.

For streaming no, for archival purposes, yes.