Amazon Remastering Music With Universal and Warner Music

[Meridimac]

On 10/2/2020 at 6:38 PM, The Computer Audiophile said:

In addition, there’s virtually no good way to play this stuff on a HiFi system.

I am demoing Amazon's free 90 day trial for Music HD, and use 2 ways to enjoy their hires titles through my systems.

 

1) For Alexa voice control: Fire TV Cube HDMI > Audio Extractor to S/PDIF > iFi S/PDIF iPurifier w/clean 5v power to digital input. Problem is Fire TV's 24-bit/48kHz limit; quality is OK anyway.

2) Amazon Music application running on desktop computer will supply streams up to the capability of the connected DAC. Sounds good, but no voice control.

[Meridimac]

I consistently get native resolution to whichever output device I choose from an upgraded 2010 Mac Pro or a 2012 MacBook Pro.

 

The only remote control is the physical one included with Fire TV to play, pause or skip to the next song, or via voice command, or via their iOS app on iPhone or iPad. Like you, I've found nothing for the Macs.

[Meridimac]

**In addition, for your reference, I also subscribe to Qobuz, Tidal and Roon. Possibly because I use HAF room correction filters within their convolution engine, my most realistic listening sessions are with Roon. That said, Amazon Music HD is less expensive, reasonably competitive sound-wise and offers a vast catalog of tunes that can be immediately accessed using voice command. -All pretty compelling for me.