![]() Streaming services give you zero choices around what mastering you get.įor a period in my life, I switched to streaming and all my CD's and LP's were in boxes. Formats and delivery mechanisms do not, comparatively speaking. If it's a crappy mastering job, it doesn't matter if it's delivered in 192/24 - it's going to sound worse to you than the old 44/16 release with the mastering you liked. No streaming service can give me everything I want, as specifically catalogued and organized as I want it - so I use Roon, serve my own streaming library, and supplement that personal library with Qobuz via Roon's "unified music library", which is frankly ideal for me.įor all the rather pointless talk about whether you can hear the difference between formats, I feel people forget that you absolutely can very easily hear the differences between masterings, remasterings, etc, and that having access to those is far more important than what format your digital files are in, or what medium they come on, or what service delivers them, or how you ripped them, because the mastering has a huge impact on what you hear. (Also, basically no streaming services offer multichannel - another reason I buy and rip digital discs) Also, when new masterings of a particular album come out, older ones are usually delisted - whether or not they're better. Most streaming services only offer the most recent major-label (re)masterings, and that's it. Seconded, and this is why I rip and tag the exact release down to the barcode and label code.
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