That problem is not just suffered by digital sources.
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It's just an example and maybe not the best one. Perhaps someone has the vinyl and cd of it to compare. Yes many tracks sound identical on both vinyl and cd but most of those are new pressings. Agnes Obel is a good example, very nice album but doesn't have the magic of old recordings.
To add, I don't have the album with riverside on
No contest in my opinion .......
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Lol... Are you seriously suggesting that I'm only referring to one specific recording? Come on, Jim, you know me and how thorough I am with these things!;)
No, this is something I could demonstrate with at least, 20 or 30 different albums, on CD and vinyl, probably more - and it's something I've *only* been able to do since getting my T/T up to a certain technical standard.
There's a point where the best T/Ts are so well 'sorted' (engineered), in terms of isolating the mechanical process, as it were, from music reproduced, that the former becomes almost 'invisible', and all you hear is the music itself, delivered in the 'effortless' and totally stable way of digital. It's what direct-drive T/Ts, in particular, are very good at.
The vast majority of T/Ts I've heard gave an obvious, quite pronounced sonic signature, which then superimposes itself onto the music, so that you know, in a bad way, that it's a record you're listening to, not a CD, as you can hear the obvious coloration. Mine simply doesn't do that to any discernible degree.
*That* is what I'm referring to, and why with the recordings in question, I can sometimes forget whether I'm listening to a record or a CD; not because my T/T sounds 'digital', in a bad way, but because the colorations, normally associated with vinyl replay are virtually absent.
I'll demonstrate this at the bake-off in question, whenever it gets organised:)
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Spotify streams lossily compressed data, so it's no wonder it sounds poorer.
I use Spotify to hear music don't have, and if it's something I really like then I'll get the CD.
So far the CD rip has always sounded noticeably better than the Spotify stream.
My conclusion is that Spotify streams do not stand up under scrutiny. They make a pleasant enough sound on playback, but they're not up to the standard of CD.
This may change when they eventually start streaming uncompressed (and by uncompressed I mean data compressed) material.