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Quality of internet radio?

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silvermesa

Quality of internet radio?
« on: 6 Jan 2011, 03:15 pm »
Hello!

Does 320 KBPS MP3 internet radio have good sound quality in a resolving stereo system? Is a subscription based alternative better than using Shoutcast or I tunes?

I am planning on running a mini toslink to toslink from my Mac to Dac to connect internet radio to my system.

Thank You!
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mcgsxr

Re: Quality of internet radio?
« Reply #1 on: 6 Jan 2011, 03:39 pm »
Not sure I can directly answer your question, I have not found many with bitrates that high.

I can say that tuning into a local 128 kbps station does not provide rewarding quality, but it does come through fine.
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fly_fish_nz

Re: Quality of internet radio?
« Reply #2 on: 6 Jan 2011, 03:42 pm »
Dig: 1.4Mbs, uncompressed, KEXP Seattle.

http://kexp.org/about/uncompressedstream.asp
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denjo

Re: Quality of internet radio?
« Reply #3 on: 6 Jan 2011, 04:17 pm »
This would depend to a large extent on the kbps and the quality of your DAC. I have found that 128 kbps through a quality DAC sounds quite good.
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Re: Quality of internet radio?
« Reply #4 on: 6 Jan 2011, 06:42 pm »
I have yet to find an internet channel that will match the dynamics of my downloaded library therefore I rarely bother listening to it. But the same holds true also for the 78 music channel on DirecTv or 85 music channels on my large C-Band dish. So with all this variety at my fingertips, I rarely stray from my own hard drive library personally, ymmv.  :thumb:
 
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Robin
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