If you are still using MP3 quality please leave this hifi forum!
Quite a few of the albums I listened to were available in a lower quality than advertised.
Cause it sounds great !Really? Considering people on this forum are still listening to vinyl and even FM radio...
Cause it sounds great !
Hi just signed up for their hires service, how do I know what bit rate is playing.
Played a few albums that I know is 24/192, my dac is not showing 24/192.
I bet that half the people who are going to try out Amazon 'hi-res' will try it via a means that doesn't actually support hi-res (as AndyU hints) and will go away thinking that it's not very good.Are you using Windows? If so I think the settings for your sound driver will override whatever amazon is trying to do. It does not seem to have the facility to select a driver such as ASIO or WASAPI exclusive mode like most players.
I bet that half the people who are going to try out Amazon 'hi-res' will try it via a means that doesn't actually support hi-res (as AndyU hints) and will go away thinking that it's not very good.
I haven't, but then I'm happy with what I've got..Just out of curiosity, have you done any double-blind ABX tests of "hi-res" vs. "CD quality"?
Sure, but a lot of people feel mp3 done with a competent encoder and a sufficient bit rate sounds great too - and objectively more accurate. I assume that you are aware that BBC FM for a very long time used a lossy encoding that was inferior to mp3, and they still use a lossy digital encoding for their FM backbone.