The fastest web browser for web streaming music

[alant4321]

Remark: If you want to listen High fidelity music at 24Bit/192KHz Master Studio quality with WAV or FLAC format, just download songs from paid music websites such as HTrack or Linn. No matter whether you are an Apple fan using iTune or Microsoft fan using Footbar2000, don’ t use S/PDIF or AES/EBU interfaces as it will compress to 24Bit/48KHz and wastes your money. Use Asynchronous USB interface and DAC chipset both support up to 24Bit/192KHz. (Exception: Weiss USB DAC uses Firewire 1394b interface, but sounds good)

[Pano]

The OGG streaming used on Spotify is pretty darn good.

[alant4321]

OGG streaming refers to Ogg - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Go ahead if you feel good!

[alant4321]

I want to add a remark that most of family may not affordable to pay high speed home ISP even if HD audio streaming (e.g. 24Bit/192KHz) is technical feasible. The speed of HD video/audio streaming may require 20 MB/s or over while 100M home ISP is equivalent to 12.5 MB/s. Thus, require to upgrade to 200M (not share) or up to 1 GB home ISP which is very expensive.

[alant4321]

Google Chrome is ranked as the fastest web browser up-to-date. The secret of core technology is the “V8 JavaScript Engine” and is explained by Google at YouTube. It is free for web browser, but predicts the major profitability is the application in Android mobile phone market since V8 JavaScript Engine is an open source.

[kevinkr]

Originally Posted by alant4321

Remark: If you want to listen High fidelity music at 24Bit/192KHz Master Studio quality with WAV or FLAC format, just download songs from paid music websites such as HTrack or Linn. No matter whether you are an Apple fan using iTune or Microsoft fan using Footbar2000, don’ t use S/PDIF or AES/EBU interfaces as it will compress to 24Bit/48KHz and wastes your money. Use Asynchronous USB interface and DAC chipset both support up to 24Bit/192KHz. (Exception: Weiss USB DAC uses Firewire 1394b interface, but sounds good)

I think that may depend on the audio card you are using, my M-Audio Audiophile PCI 24192 and 2496 cards support 24 bit 192K and 24 bit 96K respectively over coaxial spdif.. (Verified by loop back testing with my external dac verified to 96K with >40kHz tones.) I suspect support to only 48K may be true for chipsets commonly found on motherboards, but I have not checked this.

[alant4321]

Originally Posted by kevinkr

Verified by loop back testing with my external dac verified to 96K with >40kHz tones.) I suspect support to only 48K may be true for chipsets commonly found on motherboards, but I have not checked this.

You are correct and your measurement is right! You may take a look of my previous post at this thread for reference.