Article: Amazon Music HD With iOS, macOS, Windows 10, BluOS, and a Sonos Port

[jdjaye]

In my Philly apt for the work week I have a Yamaha RN-303 with a Marantz Cd Player and Focal 716 speakers - I also have a Gen 1 Amazon Fire TV box.  The Yamaha has integrated pandora and Spotify but alas no Amazon music app.

 

WRT the Amazon music Ultra HD= hi res- I have 2 data points to share in case they are helpful to someone in the forum:

Content that Amazon says is 24/196 is transmitted via toslink from the fireTV to the Yamaha at 16/44.
The same content transmitted via airplay from an iPad using the Amazon music IOS app to the Yamaha plays at 16/44.  
16/44 still sounds pretty good, to me, though it seems to drain the batter of my iPad about 4X.

[jdjaye]

18 hours ago, jdjaye said:

In my Philly apt for the work week I have a Yamaha RN-303 with a Marantz Cd Player and Focal 716 speakers - I also have a Gen 1 Amazon Fire TV box.  The Yamaha has integrated pandora and Spotify but alas no Amazon music app.

 

WRT the Amazon music Ultra HD= hi res- I have 2 data points to share in case they are helpful to someone in the forum:

Content that Amazon says is 24/196 is transmitted via toslink from the fireTV to the Yamaha at 16/44.
The same content transmitted via airplay from an iPad using the Amazon music IOS app to the Yamaha plays at 16/44.  
16/44 still sounds pretty good, to me, though it seems to drain the batter of my iPad about 4X.

 

Also - from my ipad (2018), either from the internal speakers or the 3.5 mm headphone jack, the same 24/192 track is reported as playing out at 24/48

[jdjaye]

7 hours ago, Graham Luke said:

Folks shouldn't get upset over 16 bit as opposed to 24; there's nothing extra there that you can hear anyhoo...

I respectfully disagree— but let’s discuss why in a different forum topic please.

I don’t want to derail the main thread here which is:

“what is the scope and quality of the new Amazon Music HD service and to integrate it into people’s audio systems.”

 

And I’ll ask the folks want to discuss the value and cost and their judgements of Amazon as a corporate entity to also discuss that in another topic in the forums.

 

Folks please  let’s keep this topic, on topic- it provides valuable objective information to those who are using or considering using Amazon Music HD.