TM Century Goldwaves, Worth The Expense?

[Captainfirst]

I'd like to upgrade my oldies library with these and gradually replace my consumer-grade tracks that are taken from CD. The expense is doable, if a bit of a stretch but from what I understand, the
quality of these is worth every penny. And I do get a nice discount as I'm on, and purchasing for use with, Live365.

Thoughts and comments, anyone?

 

[RadioMan203]

You say you're streaming with Live365. Are you streaming your own feed or is Live hosting your audio files? If they are hosting your files I don't know what improvement you'll get from ripping the GoldWav files down to mp3's to host there.

If you're streaming to Live what are you feeding them? Are your audio files ripped from disc to mp3 and streaming that way or are they ripped to WAV files and transcoded via your stream encoder? If you stream WAV and the only transcoding happens via the encoder I would guess if may sound better, but how much better than a commercial (consumer) CD release as a source? I couldn't tell you.

Also, if you're using audio processing are you doing so in the computer or are you going in and out of your computer(s)? The bouncing from analog to digital may add to the degradation of your audio far more than the difference between using consumer CDs and GoldWav audio.

For a recent project I opted to buy the format on GoldDiscs and rip them in-house for the automation system. It's probably more expensive this way but you do have things on backup media this way.

 

[Captainfirst]

Bill, you raise some good points, and here's the rundown. All tracks are from CD, vinyl or tape at
320k, or purchased mp3s at 256. Live365 hosts them, no live streaming from my end, and all processing is done on one computer. If I'm better off sticking with what I have, I will.

 

[Robert Bass]

Most of my tracks are from TM and I love it! I feel it was more than worth it! I've been a fan of TM even before they started offering GoldDiscs & HitDiscs. Their music reels were kick a$$ back in the day!

R