Lossless HD Music Streaming 30Mar19
It's a spring break weekend so I've been checking the NCAA hockey and basketball playoff games as well as catching some lax on TV - rather than skiing on ice. Yet I did also up the ante on my lossless HD streaming capability after reading of Qoboz as the highest quality service available (I still might trial it). They claim that for some titles they can stream 24bit/192KHz lossless... that's amazing. The key is whether the UHD library is significant and not upsampled from CD-quality; I bet that library is pretty limited. I happen to have some 24bit/96KHz material and checked that I can stream it full on from my COS-based server remotely to the Nest... you betcha - full rate from COS based file server through to my DAC in Summit.
UPDATE 31Mar19
I trialed Qobuz and got very few hits on some desired artists - mainstream ones are OK but others, not so much. I also streamed their hi-res stuff which only amounts to the most recent releases and then it mostly means just CD quality (16 bit / 44.1KHz). On rare occasions 96KHz or very rarely 192KHz are available but wholly insufficiently to warrant subscription - meh; I cancelled. Here's their UI playing Jenny Lewis's latest drop in CD quality... I think that's the maximum quality available from the web player. The second image shows their native app actually playing the same track at better quality (24bit / 48KHz), and it was better.
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