BennoB66

I want to know if the sound quality from a good quality classics CD is going to be better than 320 kps that I can get from Deezer. Or are streaming nitrates better now than CD? I have A ML system.

SW17LS

Yes. Some streaming services now have higher bitrates than even CDs, Tidal, Amazon Music HD

BMeek

In most cases, the 320kbps audio stream that a service like Deezer is bragging about was SOURCED from a CD with a 44.1 kHz sample rate, so no. The quality is not better. What they're saying is that they offer FLAC compression over MP3 and don't compress the stream so much (and they're overstating the difference - if they encoded MP3 at 320kbps it would sound just fine). As @SW17LS noted, there are emerging standards that use an "HD" higher sampling rate than 44.1 kHz (this is NOT what deezer is offering). Most human ears can't hear the benefit.

An interesting read: https://www.soundguys.com/high-bitra...l-great-16518/

SW17LS

I definitely hear a benefit of those services in my LS with ML audio. I hear no benefit in my Pacifica with standard audio.