This from a recent article:
“Amazon Music HD offers customers more than 50 million lossless HD songs, with a bit depth of 16 bits and a sample rate of 44.1kHz (CD quality). In addition, customers can stream millions more songs in Ultra HD (better than CD quality), with a bit depth of 24 bits and a sample rate up to 192 kHz.”
Anyone have any idea if the Ultra HD format is just resampled from CD format?
I am currently building a small system for the office and was just pricing a new DAC either buy or build. The availability of a wide selection of 24bit/192Khz material will definitely impact my selection process …maybe not buy a Schiit Modi Multibit??
“Amazon Music HD offers customers more than 50 million lossless HD songs, with a bit depth of 16 bits and a sample rate of 44.1kHz (CD quality). In addition, customers can stream millions more songs in Ultra HD (better than CD quality), with a bit depth of 24 bits and a sample rate up to 192 kHz.”
Anyone have any idea if the Ultra HD format is just resampled from CD format?
I am currently building a small system for the office and was just pricing a new DAC either buy or build. The availability of a wide selection of 24bit/192Khz material will definitely impact my selection process …maybe not buy a Schiit Modi Multibit??
Check out the measurements of that DAC here:
Review and Measurements of Schiit Modi 3 DAC | Audio Science Review (ASR) Forum
Doesn't seem fantastic.
This has much better performance and costs less:
Review and Measurements of SMSL M100 DAC | Audio Science Review (ASR) Forum
Review and Measurements of Schiit Modi 3 DAC | Audio Science Review (ASR) Forum
Doesn't seem fantastic.
This has much better performance and costs less:
Review and Measurements of SMSL M100 DAC | Audio Science Review (ASR) Forum
Amazon is horrible, I'm noit sure what the deal is, but I think there signal is too weak, it works fine at low levels, but you give it some gas, it falls on it's face.
I'm talking about through a computer. Tidal sound fine when I ramp it up, but Amazon distorts into something very ugly. I think you could overcome this with a pre and use that to take the input up, but you shouldn't need to do that. I have a pretty sweet PC stream and no issues with any other service, but Amazon.
Just thought I would dig this up in case anyone else has issues. There are a lot of us that have one of our rigs stream from computer. I thought I was having an amp issue it was so bad.
I'm talking about through a computer. Tidal sound fine when I ramp it up, but Amazon distorts into something very ugly. I think you could overcome this with a pre and use that to take the input up, but you shouldn't need to do that. I have a pretty sweet PC stream and no issues with any other service, but Amazon.
Just thought I would dig this up in case anyone else has issues. There are a lot of us that have one of our rigs stream from computer. I thought I was having an amp issue it was so bad.
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Given the rather small pool of true HD content right now, I'd have to guess most of it is just upsampled CD content.
Sadly this means that a lot of it might be caught up in the whole "Loudness War" thing, with almost no dynamic range, and will sound even worse at 24bits than it does at 16.
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