Pandora One Sound Quality

[boulderskies]

Wanted to make sure this got out: Pandora One does NOT provide 192K SQ for "home listening devices" just for computer based listening. This is according to Pandora Tech Support.

 

Scott

[Paul V K]

Thanks for that tidbit! I do almost all of my Pandora listening through a Sonos Connect......

[boulderskies]

Wanted to make sure this got out: Pandora One does NOT provide 192K SQ for "home listening devices" just for computer based listening. This is according to Pandora Tech Support.

 

Scott

 

This is a big deal to some of us so I wanted to repeat it and let you know I verified with Cambridge Audio also. Pandora mandates that updated 192k bit rate music file transfer is ONLY for computer/web-based music listening. Therefore, the ONLY benefit of upgrading to Pandora One is ad-free listening, if you listen to anything other than computer.

 

To me, this is pretty deceptive on Pandora's part as I have not been able to find any disclaimer on their website.

[realhifi]

It definitely sounds better running through my Mini into my system than through a streamer into the same system.