![]() ![]() The sudden shake up in the market has certainly roiled the Tidal and Amazon Music reddits, which were already bubbling in the aftermath of various technical and business investigations into the proprietary data-reduction codec, MQA.Īs someone with both Tidal and Amazon HD, I would have to say that they both have their frustrating aspects - neither one is ready for prime time as far as I'm concerned. And I like it if I can have a HiRes file of an album I like. I am a HiRes fan - I liked using 96k 24bit as a sampling rate for mixes. So a launch of Sony streaming in the west could be a long wait. I just read there isn't a high level of interest in streaming in Japan as listening to music on YouTube is very popular. I have a Sony streaming player - So their Streaming service is of interest to me, but its only available in Japan - Mora Qualitas. ![]() IMHO Apple should develop a (new?) HiRes Bluetooth codecīose headphones linger behind stuck on AAC and SBC offering none of the "HiRes" Codecs. I have used (and like) Sony's LDAC Bluetooth codec - feeling it can convey the upper and lower frequencies better than AAC and SBC and slightly has the edge over the APTX HD codec. These developments stretch Bluetooth's transmission quality. So far it's not clear of Spotify will stick to 44.1k 16 bit (or 24bit) or will offer 96k & 192k 24 bit files. Perhaps the above 2 developments are a knee-jerk reaction to Spotify's announcement of their soon to be launched CD quality HiFi tier. Looks like this will become cheaper.?Īpple who has people opening their wallet for a thousand dollar phone - have trailed far behind with Hi-Res audio - are finally now launching HiRes. Remuneration to artists from streaming- remains very contentious.Īmazon Music HD - already had Hi-Res (96k & 192k 24 bit files - for streaming and offline download). ![]() So we have the streaming services all catching up in various ways. ![]()
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