That was interesting. I guess they see mp3 as being the lingua franca of lossy files. and at 320kbps there is little quality variation between the various formats. At 128kbps it would be a different matter!
There is a lot more to just dumping catalogues online. Qobuz is not based on mass market growth and focuses on classical and jazz, with a high quality experience and about 50% of revenues from downloads. This should worry Tidal first and foremost. Spotify has a superb platform continues to lose a fortune.
I assumed their Play service followed YouTube and it used AAC. Yes, they are literally throwing money out the windowâŚ
For all the bad rep it sometimes gets on these forums I find Tidal Hi Res excellent through the Bridge and easy to distinguish from CD quality. Like everything else it depends on the recording but a good recording on tidal masters is superb to listen to.
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I agree.
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AgreedâŚand there are great hi-rez recordings on Qobuz as well. Time and again MQA files and hi-rez files with these services also sound pretty poor. Garbage in, garbage out.
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Not good for MQA, but great for enthusiasts to have another option in the market.
Will Bridge II be able to play? How about Octave?
@largenmt I have no idea. I donât use streaming services. I simply saw the article and thought others might be interested.
Short answer = yes and yes
Nice optionâŚ
The more the merrier.
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I was under the impression that Amazon was not enabled on the Bridge-II??? Can someone tell me how to achieve. I tend to use MConnect for Tidal.
Itâs never even crossed my mind to see if I can get Amazon Music to work with BridgeII but now I am really hopeful that it does. Or at least that Room adds it.
Iâll be extremely surprised if Amazon allows Roon to implement itâs streaming platform.
Amazon, like Apple, has a core mission to keep users within their own hardware whenever possible.
I bet youâre right about that but what is the point of offering 24/192 audio and requiring you to listen on your phone or Amazon device?
Amazon seems to be going for it with compatibility out of the gate on many different audio brands⌠including McIntosh and Sonus Faber⌠and with 24/192 all in FLAC, no MQA, at half the price of Quboz, its hard to see how Quboz and Tidal survive. Hopefully Roon is going to be able to integrate Amazonâs new service!
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While these things are often not logical, it would seem to me that if its being integrating into all these brands, like Bluesound and Control4, then Roon wouldnât be far off.
Hopefully thatâs the case. Though the list above is all hardware companies, not software. Supposedly Roon doesnât integrate with Spotify because Spotify will not allow Roon the type of server access Roon needs. It will be interesting to see if Amazon does. McIntosh has a number of Roon ready devices. Iâm guessing Audirvana will work with Amazon, but Roon has very different server access needsâŚ