Amazon Launches Lossless "Hi-rez" HD Music Service

I’ve had the Ultra HD option for a few weeks now. Significant upgrade to my Tidal subscription. I think Tidal has an easier interface, but aurally Amazon seems better. The "Abbey Road" 50th release is expansive and enveloping through both; but Amazon has so many more layers.

Amazon Ultra HD files of Janelle Monae's "Dirty Computer" reveal what a complex production that album is; the same can be said for the Heifetz rendition of Tchaikovsky's "Violin Concerto in D Major" - though none could hold a candle to my vinyl first pressing of the same.

Don't get too excited about "Ultra HD" files on Amazon.  Those files are merely standard resolution CD quality recordings re-processed into a 24bit container.  You cannot add quality to an original analog (or digital 16bit) recording merely by encasing it in a higher bit rate package.  That Amazon is involved in this deception is very disappointing.

Okay. So I assume my perception that they have more body and depth than Tidal is erroneous? 

Has anyone checked out the http://steinwaystreaming.com/steinway/streamHome.jsp?

All the best,
Nonoise

Simao...I dont do Tidal.   

Your ears will often times tell you you are hearing what you anticipate hearing.  But the fact is that fidelity ends with the recording session...typically analog.  You cannot take an analog recording converted to 16bit digital and make it "better" by reprocessing it into a 24bit container.  How could anybody believe that?

Unless a recording was originated in a 24bkt digital studio, it can never be a "real" 24bit recording.  An original 16bit (CD) recording can never sound better than the original 16bit recording no matter what you do.