Indeed, though I suspect it’s a small minority of us, and there is also increasing number of recordings outside of copyright.
So it’s about how you use the product not the product itself… you can see why lawyers can get rich…
Also remember with downloads, you are advised to make a copy for your own use… I have used CDR in the past.(I know a different format)
Shhhhh ….
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Funnily enough, exactly the ones I have on my U/Serve.
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Indeed they do, very considerably better.
Great choice. I use a 778CDT with my Nova and reckon it’s an absolutely cracking piece of kit for the relatively small outlay.
Problem is, though, it’s hard to be sure you’re comparing the same masters. In most cases I do find local streaming sounds better than Qobuz. But I do have a few rips where the online version wins by a significant margin. Different masters, I suspect.
Roger
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Yes, and also we should remember that many of the cloud streaming providers have different LUFs policies, and so if a master is not compliant to the service provers specification, they will process the master. This will likely affect how it sounds
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Soundcloud appears the most unaffected, and is generally favoured by many musicians.
Qobuz so I read also doesn’t process either, and relies on the processing done on the distribution master.
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Compared with local rips I find Qobuz almost unbearably loud.
I am currently using Qobuz, having ditched Amazon because of their support of Trump. Qobuz is louder but I haven’t found that a problem with my streaming devices.
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I am sure you are right. Mirrors my experience. Actual master used is often opaque on streaming services. With CD/vinyl you usually can track it down.
it is usually provided by the rights owner’s distributor and will be typically provided by rights owner or their publisher. you can see the publisher for transparency in the extended meta data on most services.
Effectively the distributor has a large matrix of service providers and regions and they select or profile on which services and regions to distribute to for particular piece of content or collection/EP/album and it then gets pushed out
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That is very interesting - I never knew that. Thanks!
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That’s very interesting, thank you.
which dac model you are using? I just acquired Emerson Digital and planning to buy Madison PS as upgrade.
I found the Madison PS to be a worthwhile upgrade to the Emerson Digital.
My DAC is a Berkeley Audio Designs Alpha DAC Series 3.
I was meeting a friend who has a 15 year old son and he is buying CDs in charity shops and listening to 1960s / 70s music. Kinks, Beatles, Rolling Stones, etc along with quite a few of his friends. The modern stuff he finds packaged and boring.
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smart kid
Replace the streamer with a CD player.
Job done.
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Mine is NDac. Obiviously our motive quite the same, to pair a good network bridge for the 24/192max dac. 
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I dont think you mean a network bridge? The NDAC is SPDIF and USB rather than ethernet - so a network bridge would be of no use - but a network bridge could be beneficial for a streamer potentially like with some of the Melco products.
There is also an AVB, which is a digital audio and video network bridge - used for low latency ethernet based comms for multimedia - but fairly sure you didn’t mean this 
but I mention that because its digital audio and video specific.
I suspect you meant a digital streamer (with digital audio output) ? If so then yes that is great for the NDAC as that is exactly what I used to do with a NDX feeding the NDAC via SPDIF audio = it worked really well.