USING A COMPUTER AS HIGH QUALITY MUSIC SOURCE

All recordings on this site are chosen to be both best performances of great pieces and well engineered and most have won awards for both. To get their benefits you should play them back through good sound systems - either good earphones or headphones or a good home stereo. But no matter how you listen your music comes from a computer, or smart phone or tablet so this is a guide to how to get good sound out of a streaming music service. This site uses Spotify as it is the most usable and has a high quality stream.

There are three ways to listen to music that is playing on your computer or being streamed over the web other than through the little speakers that come with computers. You can’t appreciate the full dynamic range of music unless you have a decent sound system connected to your computer. You can 1. use good headphones, 2. connect your computer to your home music system or 3. buy an auxiliary computer multimedia speaker system.