For it to get much use for critical listening, however, it’s going to have to get integrated with Roon and/or Audirvana.Īt least it’s another option, but it’s an inconvenient one at present with no quality-benefit over the existing services I use at present. automatic sample rate/bit-depth switching) and allow for Direct/Exclusive output, I’ll probably keep it around. If they fix the app so it reliably offers bit-perfect output on Mac OS (i.e. The app is worse than TIDAL and Qobuz (for reference, I think the Spotify app is pretty bloody awful too … it’s just differently-shitty than the TIDAL and Qobuz ones).ĭidn’t find any of the oddball tracks that I can’t get in TIDAL or Qobuz on Amazon either (they’re not on iTunes or Spotify either). Which means if you manually set the output rate (via Audio MIDI Control) to, say, 16/44.1 … you wind up with everything else being forcibly resampled in Core Audio.Īlso, no option for Direct or Exclusive output which is, I suspect, the reason that most of the stuff I’ve compared has sounded better from TIDAL or Qobuz (in no case, so far, has Amazon HD sounded better) either via their direct apps, Audirvana or Roon. That wouldn’t be a big deal, but I’ve run across a number of “HD” (or “Ultra HD”) albums for which various tracks are at different bit-depths and rates. It’ll only output to the default audio device (same braindead behavior that Spotify exhibits and they have persistently not bothered to fix for YEARS), and it does not automatically switch the bit-depth or sample rate on the output. The music itself, mostly lossless ALAC HD files (ranging from 16/44.1 to 24/192) is stored on a NAS on my network. To my ears, Qobuz/Audirvans has a consistently more pleasing audio quality slightly better bass response/punch and overall a. Amazon Music HD sounds terrific and it’s user interface is MUCH better than the often frustratinging Qobuz/Audirvana. My music is handled by Apple Music app (let's call it iTunes for simplicity purposes, everybody will understand I suppose). That acknowledged, to me there seems to be a noticeable audio quality difference between them. Move Over Edelgard Fire Emblem Fans Seem To Have A New Three Houses Favourite Don t Get Too Excited That Revised Switch Lite Model. The app is largely horrible, at least on Mac OS. Philming Well-Known Member Thread Starter. All Hegel devices with a network or USB input can receive this signal. These players unfold the MQA file one time and produce a signal that is 'higher than CD-quality', either 88.2kHz or 96kHz. Players include among others Tidal, Audirvana, and Roon. Since I am finally home, and the late nature (or pathologically early, I guess) nature of my arrival meant I had already slept too long to do so when I got home, I got to spend a few hours playing with Amazon HD Music. This is when the decoding of the signal is done in the player.
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