5.1 home theatre suggestions

[marcusarelus]

30 minutes ago, recom273 said:

These services are killing music, 128kbs streaming must be punishment to your ears.

 

Storage is so cheap, you can store plenty of FLAC files, burnt to CD if the album is good enough. 

I stream at 1,411kbps, 16/44.1 kHz.  Deezer.  Ears are fine.

[janclaes47]

13 hours ago, marcusarelus said:

I don't think there is any broadcast 7.1 sound is there?

Plenty of 4K movies with 7.1 sound available on Real Debrid

[KittenKong]

22 hours ago, recom273 said:

These services are killing music, 128kbs streaming must be punishment to your ears.

128kbs would be more what I would expect from internet radio, and those stations usually do all sorts of other things to the music to give it the "FM radio sound". So hifi it aint.

 

But real music streaming services usually are significantly better than that. Deezer and Tidal, as mentioned, reckon to stream CD quality FLAC, and Spotify Premium (which I use) reckons to stream Ogg at 320kbs (256kbs on some platforms). I find this to be entirely acceptable, especially given that most of the music I listen to was recorded on analogue tape long before digital recording started being used anyway (late 70s).

 

Would I pay a small supplement to get streaming at SACD quality? Yes. But I wont hold my breath waiting for it.