![]() Specialist streamer Primephonic, a dedicated classical music service, offers 100,000 tracks in CD quality as well as offering a HiRes, CD and DSD64 download store for over 5000 classical albums. This is 44.1kHz/16bit and is available via Qobuz’s Sublime and TIDAL Premium subscriptions.ĭeezer has recently introduced a HiFi subscription and has 36 million tracks in CD quality available for streaming. The downside is that it requires MQA compatible hardware, such as a music streamers and portable music players or software such as the TIDAL desktop app to decode the streamed MQA files. MQA streams are packaged inside lossless containers such as FLAC, WAV or Apple Lossless reducing the bandwidth needed for true HiRes streaming. TIDAL also offer 96kHz/24bit streaming using MQA technology (Master Quality Authenticated) on their premium HiFi subscription. ( Neil Young streams back catalogue in HiRes) This will be free till June 2018 when it is expected to change to a subscription site ‘at a modest cost’ according to the great man himself. Qobuz recently announced that it will bring its HiRes streaming service to the USA in mid-2018 ( Qobuz to launch HiRes streaming service in USA).įans of Neil Young can also hear most of his back catalogue in HiRes on the Neil Young Archive. Sublime+ subscribers also enjoy a 30-60% discount on HiRes downloads bringing the cost down to that typically charged for an MP3. Qobuz’s Sublime+ subscription delivers up to 192kHz/24-bit streaming on 70,000 albums and streams CD quality on the remainder of its catalogue. ![]() This means 96kHz/24bit resolution or better and is currently the gold standard by which others are judged. Not only has the popularity of streaming increased but we are now starting to see high quality streaming services which equal or in some cases surpass traditional hi-fi music sources for audio quality. My humble cannery: Sennheiser PX 100, HD 25 plastic, Aluminum, and 75th Anniv., HD 600, HD 800, Fostex TH900mk2 SB, TR-X00 Mahogany, Audeze LCD-2C, 3F, HIFIMAN HE6SE V2, HE400i 2020, Beyer DT 1770, DT 880/600, Shure SE535, SE215, RHA MA-750, Dunu Trident, Cables by .uk and skyaudiocables.Music streaming has seen a five-fold increase in value from 2012-2017 and now has a worldwide turnover of over $5bn annually. ![]() Music: FreeBSD ZFS running on Xeon, CIFS/Samba and minidlna | Tidal MQA | Deezer Hifi | ScAmazon HD | Foobar2000 | ASIOProxy | BluOS | Yamaha MusicCast Headstation: Lenovo M75t Audio-gd DI-20, coax Mytek Brooklyn DAC+ RME ADI-2 DAC FS (AKM, 2nd Ed., first batch in Europe) Violectric V280 SPL Phonitor 2 Bluesound Node 2i Wireworld Chroma 8 coaxĢ Channel: Lenovo M90n IoT, Audio-gd DI-20HE, Master 19, R8 MK2 Mutec REF10, MC-3+ USB, MC-1.1+ TASCAM DA-3000, RW901MKII Oppo UDP-205 Bluesound B100S Musical Fidelity M5si, Klipsch R-26F floorstanders on custom isolators DIY AES/EBU and balanced analog cables from Sommer cable stock, Hicon connectors Wireworld Ultraviolet 7 HDMI & coax Damar & Hagen bydpete Tertiary systems: Yamaha MusicCast JBL Control 5s on Gravity stands Audio-gd R2R-11 rev. They probably changed their exclusive mode implementation recently. I highly disagree - I’ve noticed some severe differences in sound quality when I enable exclusive mode vs having it disabled, changes that are better, and it seems to be exclusive because I’ve heard my amp get louder despite in-app & windows volume being already maxed out so from what I can tell, it’s not shared. I am unable to test this personally though as Qobuz isn't available in Canada and won't be for another few months. It should be noted as well that most tracks on Amazon Music are in standard lossless quality, in that the audio files are typically only 16-bit 44.1kHz or 24-bit 44.1kHz / 48 kHz, so that could be why some tracks have less fidelity compared to tracks on Qobuz. So yes, Amazon Music does use WASAPI exclusive mode when "Exclusive mode" is toggled. Another sign of this is being unable to control the volume from within Windows via the Windows software volume control. You can see this when you go to System -> Sound -> Volume Mixer in Windows 11's Settings app and look at the "Volume" option at the top, above "Output device". They probably changed their exclusive mode implementation recently.ĮDIT: So I just checked and it is most definitely exclusive mode - when a music player is in WASAPI exclusive mode, it disables all tracking of audio signals across Windows and delegates all audio control to the respective DAC. Click to expand.I highly disagree - I’ve noticed some severe differences in sound quality when I enable exclusive mode vs having it disabled, changes that are better, and it seems to be exclusive because I’ve heard my amp get louder despite in-app & windows volume being already maxed out so from what I can tell, it’s not shared.
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