Amazon HD Lower Price

Amazon has lowered it's price $5.00 for it's HD service to 7.99 for prime users. With Apple also now offering a HD service the competition is heating up. Will Tidal and Qobus follow and lower their prices?

hifijunky05-18-2021 10:24am

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lowrider57 Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 5,417 posts 05-18-2021 at 10:26am Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete Qobuz already cut their monthly price pretty drastically.
robert53 Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 490 posts 05-18-2021 at 12:52pm Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete Amazon just gave me a free upgrade to HD. I've been a prime subscriber for years.
lowrider57 Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 5,417 posts 05-18-2021 at 03:36pm Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete Is this Amazon Music Unlimited? There's a 3 month free trial, then $7.99 per month for Prime members. Has anybody tried it yet?
melm Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 1,084 posts 05-18-2021 at 03:45pm Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete The problem with Amazon (compared to Qobuz, for ex.) is that Amazon HD does not let the user initiate a WASAPI or ASIO session. So, unless you have another solution everything will be either upsampled or downsampled to the rate of your Windows sound mixer, unless they coincide.
lowrider57 Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 5,417 posts 05-18-2021 at 03:48pm Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete Found this on Google: The Bluesound Node 2i successfully streamed lossless audio from Amazon Music HD from 16 bit / 44.1 kHz up through 24 bit / 192 kHz. Amazon's own apps are unable to do what the Bluesound ecosystem can do with respect to playing the highest quality lossless audio.Nov 16, 2020

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