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[Jasonovich]

So my HEOS should sound better to 😄👍its very noticeable on the TV via the sound bar a lot more detail and back ground sound.

The data is not being choked by the lack of bandwidth.
It makes sense. 🙂

 

[Shrek]

it doesnt sound choked it defo did before ,ive just tried HEOS the detail id defiantly better .

 

[Al ears]

The data is not being choked by the lack of bandwidth.
It makes sense. 🙂

Not to me it doesn't. Surely the data either comes through or it doesn't?

 

[Dave_]

Not to me it doesn't. Surely the data either comes through or it doesn't?

It's bollox, to be blunt

Audio streaming requires so little bandwidth even a crappy old ADSL could handle it without issue.

It would buffer if there wasn't enough bandwidth not sound different.

Placebo effect/expectation bias is what's going on here...

 

[Al ears]

It's bollox, to be blunt

Audio streaming requires so little bandwidth even a crappy old ADSL could handle it without issue.

It would buffer if there wasn't enough bandwidth not sound different.

Placebo effect/expectation bias is what's going on here...

Precisely, as you so succinctly put it.....

 

[davidf]

It's bollox, to be blunt

Audio streaming requires so little bandwidth even a crappy old ADSL could handle it without issue.

It would buffer if there wasn't enough bandwidth not sound different.

Placebo effect/expectation bias is what's going on here...

And yet, people have issues streaming. Buffering capabilities would be down to the streaming item, and we all know many of these items don't necessarily have a large enough cache.

Playing Devil's advocate...

What if, some or all music streaming services do what Netflix does, and throttles the bandwidth when needed to try and keep he end user experience uninterrupted? It's not something they'd publicise, as people would be screaming for refunds for something they're paying for. And Average Joe wouldn't notice anyway as they couldn't tell MP3 from hi-res.

They're a business, after all, and need to maintain subscribers. Buffering is visible (and annoying), but reducing bandwidth to keep things uninterrupted would be a very easy and desired trade off for a multi-million point company.