Juan Antonio
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Riveraranch, even illicit lossless music can sound inferior to CDs if the guy doesn't use EAC or XLD applications and set up correctly. Ultimately, many details.
Matchstikman, for instance, if you prefer streaming music files, the appropriate way is to purchase lossless music online or.. (I prefer the second one) buy the CD if you can and extract the tracks with EAC, so you have the CD and the file (way better in my opinion). With this, you don't have to burn crap virgin CD's that will sound inferior to the original one. Yes, you have to burn a good virgin CD for audio use, get a good CD audio recorder and yadda, yadda, yadda to approach the same quality.
Since most of the music in the industry use the CD as the main source of distribution you won't have any problem.
If some record is only online, the better choice is to stream the file to a DAC instead of burning a CD. But... if you're gonna play the CD in your car, most probably you are not gonna differentiate the quality even if the car audio is real Hifi. The super unstable transport and the resonances and vibrations of the car is gonna induce more jitter and imperfections on the playback than anything else. Compared with this, the burned CD is heavenly perfect.
You have to understand that I'm talking with the maximum pure quality in mind, not convenience.
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