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More. By definition, audiophiles need more.
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Now this is hilarious.should everyone chuck their money at amazon tho ? at least tidal is artist owned. amazon already owns too much.
Now this is hilarious.
Nah, I will just stick with sneering and mudslinging. Thanks for asking tho. Guess I am not a "good sir" after all, although you didn't really mean that anyway, did you? Cheers.And why good sir, is it hilarious ? Are you going to back your post up with some actual content, nay, dare I say counterpoint ? Or at least a worthy argument ? Or is it just gonna be a sneer and mudslinging ? Hmmm ?
How is Amazon better than Tidal ?
NO.......well if you like a bright, harsh, poor detail,Does Amazon music sound better than Tidal?
No, TIDAL sounds better. On 16 bit/44/1 there is less difference, but Amazon Music - ULTRA HD vs TIDAL MASTERS I hear a much bigger advantage with TIDAL [depending on the Album].Does Amazon music sound better than Tidal?
If anybody is poised to take control of the nascent HD audio streaming world, assuming Amazon is fine with their halfazz budget approach, it would be Apple. They have the music library in their own cloud, and the ability to improve their iDevices' audio hardware capabilities. Amazon has more reach, but if Steve Jobs was alive this would already be happening. Amazon needs competition. Perhaps Qobuz & Tidal will merge with Roon.
No, TIDAL sounds better. On 16 bit/44/1 there is less difference, but Amazon Music - ULTRA HD vs TIDAL MASTERS I hear a much bigger advantage with TIDAL [depending on the Album].
However Amazon has ULTRA HD Albums which are only available in 16bit/44.1 on Tidal HIFI, such as many of Michael Jackson Albums. In this case it is hard to say which sounds better on my gear. Audioquest Cobalt to Focal Clear headphones.
all the above is based on download in highest quality, since Amazon can’t stream in full quality for over 2 minutes. The quality goes to STANDARD which is horrible.
NO.......well if you like a bright, harsh, poor detail,
Then yes
I can also attest to the Amazon jacking up their high end, lacking detail, compared to Qobuz and Tidal. There is a fuzziness in the treble with less detail.I cannot confirm this experience on my HW (using iPhone + DFR). Amazon Music HD sounds perfectly fine to me. I compared multiple albums to Apple Music (and I would consider them a golden standard in terms of used masters) doing instant A/B switching, and there was no difference in tonality, it was neither brighter nor darker, also the same dynamic range. While Apple Music has a bit of ‚digital‘ in the sound, Amazon Music sounds absolutely organic.
But we know Amazon‘s apps are still very buggy, so YMMV depending on used HW...
I wonder if the app sounds worse in Windows for these reasons, than it does on the Mac OS. Seems like we could be talking about apples and oranges here.Amazon Music HD sound quality right now just does not compare with Tidal or Qobuz. You can most likely put this down to the program using the Windows audio stack in shared mode. Regardless of the native bit depth and sample rate of the song played in Amazon Music HD Windows up or down samples to the user setting in Sounds. You can confirm this if you have an outboard DAC that shows the sample rate it is being sent. You could go into Windows Sounds and manually adjust for each song but you will still have the files sent through the Windows audio stack with some degradation: you are not getting bit perfect sound. For that you need ASIO or Wasapi exclusive mode. Tidal and Qobuz both offer exclusive mode which bypasses Windows audio and lets the stream be sent bit perfect to the DAC with automatic sample rate changing.
I wonder if the app sounds worse in Windows for these reasons, than it does on the Mac OS. Seems like we could be talking about apples and oranges here.