A Post That's Not Really About CDs or Streaming
It's making the rounds on social media. A bold, declarative statement: F*CK STREAMING BUY ORIGINAL CD Setting aside my linguistic pedantry (Where's your definite article, sir or miss?) in favour of my equally annoying audiophile snobbery for a moment, what exactly are the posters trying to communicate with this? Compact disc quality is superior to streaming? Take back your right to physically possess the things you buy? (Because we don't actually own streaming anything, do we?) Make certain your money goes to the artist you love and not the Evil Streaming Monster? I'm not even going to touch the last two. (Or will I?) So let's assume the first guess is dead on. F*ck streaming and buy the original CD = CDs are of better audio quality than streaming music. Is that true? (Firmly adjusts snobbery hat.) Compressed audio is compressed audio. A 320 kbps stream and a CD burned from a brickwalled master both threw the same information away. The CD starts with a 16-bit/4...
