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I recently opened an account with Amazon Music. They say it is high resolution...but is it?
I don't know, it sounds good on my system, and the inventory is amazing!
I'm too ignorant to ask the right questions, is Amazon a good provider for high Rez? I have never tried any other (ops, yes Apple is good too) streaming servers and don't have a clue regarding all the different file types.
If I am going down the wrong path, let me know, but ignorance really is bliss.
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Have Azon ... like it. The mobile app is lame but SQ is resplendent thru laptop.
I had heard that some streaming services sometimes decimate the signal depending upon bandwidth of the pipe to your house. But that information is old and I do not know how common it is anymore.
I have no complaints about Amazon Music and listen to it a lot.
But my main streaming is Quboz and Tidal through Roon mostly.
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"You are precisely as big as what you love and precisely as small as what you allow to annoy you." ~ R A Wilson
Amazon Music HD has content from mp3 quality to 24/192, although I've found very little that is less than CD quality. I've been using it for several months now and am quite happy with the sound quality. You can see the quality by clicking on the song title when it is playing.
How are you streaming to your system? As others here pointed out when I was a true newbie and not just a one-step-beyond newbie as I am now, depending on how you are streaming the signal may get up or down sampled. Whether that matters is between you and your ears. :^)
Regards,
Steve
On my system, the Amazon music signal comes from the wireless router signal into the Apple TV, the signal runs thru the AVR (HK 7550hd). I play amazon music in 2 channel mode on the AVR which feeds the speaker system. No separate DAC, but the AVR seems to do the job well.
The other side of my system is a 2 channel Marantz 2238b, MP phono stage for MC & TT for my small vinyl collection.
Both sides share the speaker system thru the glorified switch box (Russound SDB 4.1). This provides flexablity for different zones.
I love the variety available w online streaming - absolutely huge - but the Marantz side (don't know why) has the most horsepower.
On my system, the Amazon music signal comes from the wireless router signal into the Apple TV, the signal runs thru the AVR (HK 7550hd). I play amazon music in 2 channel mode on the AVR which feeds the speaker system. No separate DAC, but the AVR seems to do the job well.
The other side of my system is a 2 channel Marantz 2238b, MP phono stage for MC & TT for my small vinyl collection.
Both sides share the speaker system thru the glorified switch box (Russound SDB 4.1). This provides flexablity for different zones.
I love the variety available w online streaming - absolutely huge - but the Marantz side (don't know why) has the most horsepower.
I also just subscribed to Amazon Music. It seems to have a lot of high resolution digital, which means 24/96 and 24/192 FLAC. I think that's about as good as other streaming sites. Of course, TIDAL has MQA encoded music files, which sounded very good to me. I subscribed to TIDAL and QOBUZ several months ago and then I quit because I didn't listen that much. Amazon offered me three months for free so I thought I'd try streaming again. I imagine that one site is just as good as another, although Amazon is only $7.99 a month and the other two were more like $12 or $15 a month if I remember correctly. Anyway, I'm going to try Amazon for a while. So far I like it!
Happy listening!
John Elison
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