According to the company’s press release, Qobuz 24-bit streaming is now “compatible with most products on the Sonos S2 platform, which supports up to 48kHz/24-bit audio resolution.” Now, on Sonos devices, we’re making it easy for millions more people to experience the improvement Hi-Res audio can make.”Īlthough Qobuz has been available on the Sonos platform since 2013, streaming options have so far been limited to 16-bit FLAC. ![]() Said Qobuz USA Managing Director Dan Mackta of the partnership, “Qobuz has always strived to make the highest quality audio accessible, as people become more interested in better sound. This makes Qobuz the first music service to deliver 24-bit Hi-Res audio streaming on the Sonos platform. ![]() The last 2 years of computer audio (2017 – 2019) for listeners and musicians have been unlike anything I have seen or heard since the earliest exciting and revolutionary days of the introduction of DSD as SACDs into the market which I participated with as an album (SACD The Window released in 2003).Music streaming service Qobuz has announced that its Hi-Res music library is now available for streaming on Sonos wireless multiroom speakers. Keep in mind around then that Netflix streaming was still new, 5mbps Internet download speed was a marvel to have, and DSD playing on any of the 30+ million Sony Playstation3 in homes then was astonishing.įollowing those years of early SACD Discs (.ISO image downloads to burn to high capacity DVD-Rs) 20 were the beginning of Sony's official High Resolution Audio (HRA) program removing DRM from DSD recordings and inciting many companies to create low cost DSD USB DACs and headphone amplifiers that soon flooded the market and began encouraging many to listen to excellent recordings in both DSD and PCM (24/96 and above, and DXD).Īfter the SACD early years (~2000 – 2005) excitement the next step was to launch Sony DSD Disc Format downloads in 2009 with my release of The Window in stereo, followed by Crossing, and then both as multichannel 5.1 studio DSD64 masters. Since 2016 the introduction of MQA as both remasters for downloads and low bit rate, high resolution (unfolded up to 24/384 but delivered at about 24/48k or far less in my experience (FLAC ~700-1000kbps)), streaming from TIDAL and other services further puts the inexpensive reality of the highest quality studio masters in the accessible hands and ears of music lovers from something as simple to use as an iPhone or Android smartphone, tablet, or from laptop or desktop. #Sonos targets platform by adding qobuz android# Hi-res from a smartphone streaming from the internet. Who would have guessed? No one did, not too long ago. On the high end of gear in these categories, and as described in this post regarding iFi Audio's Pro iDSD product released in 2018, there are products now available that can be connected to home studio setups delivering bit-perfect transmissions of encoded MQA and 1-bit DSD over WiFi as well as DSD1024 resampling of any streaming source such as Spotify (from 160k up to 320k through the Internet to your phone). These same standalone receiving DAC/DLNA/AirPlay/Google Cast units can also decode MQA from a connected computer (via WiFi or USB), or internet streaming hi-res TIDAL masters. IFi Audio Pro iDSD DAC/streaming/preamp and xDSD mobile DAC/headphone amp None of this was imaginable in 2009, or 2013, or 2016, let alone anytime before that. ![]() Jump To The Point – What Do I Get Reading This? #Sonos targets platform by adding qobuz pro# ![]() You get to imagine living and/or working in an environment where you can play any music you like in any audio format from any device you might have (including your Smart TV or Apple TV or CD/DVD player) through your stereo setup or headphones with the best sound you may have ever heard from the exact same music your ears may already know very well. #Sonos targets platform by adding qobuz tv#
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