Amazon Launches Lossless "Hi-rez" HD Music Service

Got the email today. Over 50 million songs at CD quality. Maybe I'll get that Amazon Prime account after all and experiment. If it is good, it'll disrupt things a bit, and that would be a good thing.

All the best,
Nonoise

I wonder where Amazon is going to go with 3rd party hardware integration. 

Today is the day High Resolution Audio went mainstream. This will do much, much more than "disrupt things a bit." The implications for our hobby are significant.

I’m excited for the wider catalog access, but truly excited for what this means for impact on hardware (major) choices and software support solutions.

Normally you get trickle down, but in this case we will get the opposite...a trickle up effect. Good news for everyone.

As a single example, can you imagine the impact on sales for Audioquest’s Dragonfly Cobalt....or OEM DAC chips...

I have a TIDAL account with a Scott Nixon dac so no hi-rez necessary. Do you think switching over to Amazon is worthwhile? Yes I have a Prime account.

Hopefully the added competition will result in lower prices from Tidal and/or Qobuz.  I don't buy anything from Amazon if I can help it for a number of reasons, so I won't be using their music service even if the prices for other services remain the same or go up.