DimitryZ
pfm Member
I was excited to read that Amazon is now including HD (CD lossless) and HIRES (lissless) for most of its subscribers.
I really liked the quality of the previous Amazon HD service to which I subscribe to, along with Tidal and Qobuz. I thought that on recent comparative listening of the exceptional recording of Melody Gardot's "Sunset in the Blue (SE)" Amazon HD did better than Qobuz and almost as good as the sensational MQA version.
Today, after playing Rickie Lee Jones' niche MQA-CD release, I thought I would do my duty on the MQA thread and compare it to hires LPCM version on Amazon HD,, which I expected to be very good.
I was surprised that RLJ ubiquitous release wasn't marked with "HD" or ""ULTRA-HD" logo. When I played it (iPad app), it showed 192KHz. I looked around and all the "HD"and "ULTRA-HD" logos disappeared and everything was ostensibly uosampled to 192KHz. I am not against upsampling, but it would be still nice to know what the original recording rate was. My phone app shows the same thing.
Is this the experience of other Amazon HD subscribers? It's not the iPad interface as Qobuz plays the same rates as the music displays. I tried two of my four DACs with the same result....
Curious to hear your experience.
Edit TL: adding affiliated Amazon HD link.
I really liked the quality of the previous Amazon HD service to which I subscribe to, along with Tidal and Qobuz. I thought that on recent comparative listening of the exceptional recording of Melody Gardot's "Sunset in the Blue (SE)" Amazon HD did better than Qobuz and almost as good as the sensational MQA version.
Today, after playing Rickie Lee Jones' niche MQA-CD release, I thought I would do my duty on the MQA thread and compare it to hires LPCM version on Amazon HD,, which I expected to be very good.
I was surprised that RLJ ubiquitous release wasn't marked with "HD" or ""ULTRA-HD" logo. When I played it (iPad app), it showed 192KHz. I looked around and all the "HD"and "ULTRA-HD" logos disappeared and everything was ostensibly uosampled to 192KHz. I am not against upsampling, but it would be still nice to know what the original recording rate was. My phone app shows the same thing.
Is this the experience of other Amazon HD subscribers? It's not the iPad interface as Qobuz plays the same rates as the music displays. I tried two of my four DACs with the same result....
Curious to hear your experience.
Edit TL: adding affiliated Amazon HD link.
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