Amazon High Definition Music Streaming Service

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I surely hope that those in the audiophile community support the likes of Tidal and Qobuz over Amazon just for the sake of consciousness. A community that regularly discusses the ins and outs of 4, 5, and 6 figure speaker, DACs, cables etc shouldn't then try and save the equivalent of a fancy fuse or dc cable - or to put it in even more real world  perspective - the cost of about twenty five coffees out a year - to save on their music service. I'd rather support Jay-Z or some French entrepreneurs vs Bezos. 

 

FTR we have a family Prime account, use it, and living in Seattle I have numerous friends that work for Amazon, and my wife works for the 'devil' Microsoft, and when you go into the Amazon Music HQ in SF there's a sixteen foot big photograph of mine. So I'm not one of those anti-Amazon crazies, though their sins are well documented. If it ever does get integrated in a way that I could actually use with Roon and my system, I could possibly see it as an addendum to Qobuz, though Hi Res is overrated imo, and just how much time do we actually have to listen to THAT much music? I'm one who actually values silence as well. 

 

I still have plenty of friends who are happy with their old Yamaha or Marantz receivers and buying records by the oodles and playing them on their cheap turntables. A lot of them being musicians themselves. They are the ones who are truly keeping it alive. So stay true and please continue supporting the little guys. Keep the soundstage wide....

[charlesphoto]

2 hours ago, The Computer Audiophile said:

I think you’re mixing a few items.
 

Everyone here would like to support artists. 

Artists fighting to make it because they literally have nothing, often do great work. That said, successful artists also make some great music. However, state sponsored musicians remind me of a quote from Marvin Hagler, ” It’s tough to get out of bed to do roadwork at 5am when you’ve been sleeping in silk pajamas”

 

We discussed this back in the eighties/nineties when I was photographing bands that had become world famous but were still living on Top Ramen, and we heard about the Dutch gov supporting bands. We all thought that sounded great, but at the same time asked ourselves how many Dutch bands we had actually heard about, or were doing anything remotely exciting or original. Silence was the answer. Sometimes struggle can be a positive (don't ask my ten year old though  ).