Apple Acquires Primephonic Music Streaming Service
September 1, 2021 Comments Off on Apple Acquires Primephonic Music Streaming Service
Métronome Technologie DSS Network Player and Streamer
August 13, 2021 Comments Off on Métronome Technologie DSS Network Player and Streamer
https://www.audiophilia.com/reviews/2021/5/31/metronome-technologie-dss-network-player-and-streamer
There’s no getting around it, the DSS is a very expensive little box, and has mostly the same features as many cheaper streamers. However, once you get inside the chunky steel housing and peak under the hood, the price makes a little more sense. The power supply is handled by a toroidal transformer from Talema, and feeds multiple capacitor banks. File recognition and playback are handled by a Korean manufactured board made specifically for Métronome, and clock duties are given to an AKM AK4137 chip. The company has spared no expense in assembling a streamer with impeccable build quality, fed by a dedicated and massive power supply to a first rate set of parts. You will not find these things in your cheap and cheerful Bluesound streamers, and this is how Métronome has distinguished itself in the digital source domain.



Amazon Music Unlimited review
August 1, 2021 Comments Off on Amazon Music Unlimited review
https://www.whathifi.com/us/amazon/music-unlimited/review
Amazon Music Unlimited is compatible with smartphones and tablets via its Android and iOS apps; PCs and Macs via either its web player or desktop app; Fire tablets and Fire TVs; some in-car entertainment systems; Sonos multi-room wireless speakers; Bluesound and NAD BluOS devices. It’s worth noting that you can’t actually access CD-quality music or hi-res tracks in Amazon Music HD through your browser, though. This can only be done through the dedicated desktop and mobile apps, which is no bad thing.

Hi-res music streaming services compared
June 29, 2021 Comments Off on Hi-res music streaming services compared
https://www.whathifi.com/us/advice/hi-res-music-streaming-services-compared
Tidal is perhaps the most established. It’s our favourite service, too, and holder of a 2020 What Hi-Fi? Award in the music streaming service category. Since January 2017, its £20 ($20) per month HiFi tier has granted access to hi-res (typically 24-bit/96kHz) Tidal Master streams, encoded using MQA (Master Quality Authenticated) technology. So is Tidal the answer? It’s certainly one answer, but not the only one.

Top 5 Best Music Streaming Services in 2021
June 10, 2021 Comments Off on Top 5 Best Music Streaming Services in 2021
Roon Labs Version 1.8
June 2, 2021 Comments Off on Roon Labs Version 1.8
https://www.audiophilia.com/reviews/2021/3/17/ddp234k7sqarz2rnpfr8vwyt8ce6d7
When Roon Labs jumped into the arena, the cool thing was its use of the internet together with its knowledge base to supply you in real time active metadata about the music it played or it would make suggestions. You could explore/investigate/research/learn/discover while listening to music supplied by your own sources. One could even stop playing music and continue reading/discovering. Roon is not just a player software—just as an iPhone is not just a phone. And machine learning was part of its game: offering you `intelligent’ suggestions, once it got the hang of your listening habits by studying it (i.e., using it as data to feed its algorithm). It was exciting and fun.

Apple Launches Lossless Audio & Spatial Audio for Apple Music!
May 18, 2021 Comments Off on Apple Launches Lossless Audio & Spatial Audio for Apple Music!
My response to the Golden Sound MQA test
May 9, 2021 Comments Off on My response to the Golden Sound MQA test
I published music on Tidal to test MQA – MQA Review
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Tidal review
April 22, 2021 Comments Off on Tidal review
https://www.whathifi.com/us/tidal/review
We also originally noted that Masters tracks and albums (all marked with an ‘M’ logo) could be hard to find, but Tidal has worked to make this less of a sore spot by offering a growing number of Masters playlists and increasing discovery of these hi-res streams.
The Masters home page in the ‘Explore’ tab is a good place to start. Or you can type ‘Masters’ into the search bar, filter by ‘playlist’ and see curated selections for pop, rock, hip-hop, R&B and even for more niche genres such as K-Pop and latin. Masters-specifics playlists expand past genre, too: there’s now ‘Tidal Masters: New Arrivals’ and ‘Tidal Masters: Essentials’, genre-specific (‘Tidal Masters: Motown’) and artist-specific (‘Tidal Masters: The Smiths’) options, plus ‘Master Edition’ Artist Radio and Track Radio stations, which allow subscribers to listen to an uninterrupted stream of Tidal Masters tracks based on their listening habits.

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