The service's Hi-Res streaming options are now available on Sonos devices in the US, UK, and several countries across Central Europe. Now, on Sonos devices, we’re making it easy for millions more people to experience the improvement Hi-Res audio can make," said Qobuz US' managing director, Dan Mackta. "Qobuz has always strived to make the highest quality audio accessible, as people become more interested in better sound. A free trial period is also available.Ī Studio Sublime subscription is also available, at £249.99 / $249.99 / €249.99 for 12 months, which includes discounts on Hi-Res audio downloads. That works out at £12.49 / $12.49 per month. It also offers downloads of Hi-Res music through the Qobuz store.Ī Studio Premier subscription costs £14.99 / $14.99 / €19.99 per month with access to FLAC tracks encoded in studio quality - up to 192 kHz/24-bit (although the Sonos streaming is a tad lower, as above).Ī yearly subscription costs £149.99 / $149.99 / €179.99, payable annually. I am open to everything when it comes to enjoying music.Qobuz has over 70 million tracks in Hi-Res available on its platform and is adding more all the time. Very curious about other suggestions that will come up to this. Long story short… It’s all about what you think is important. Thanks for the insight of this opening post □ I think I will just forget about the €-numbers and give it an another try. Not to forget the curated stations from various artists which are only available on Sonos Radio HD and I really did like a lot of those. That's for a dual subscription of Qobuz (€19,95), Apple One (€19,95) and Sonos Radio HD (€9,95).Īlthough the ease for music playing in high quality without worry about thinking about the next playlist, is a breeze to play music in whatever mood you are during the day. It must have been because besides the numbers about bitrates I also might have thought, Keeping Apple Music, Qobuz and Sonos Radio HD in total cost me € 50,- each month. I have tried it free for one month, but eventually cancelled it. Which offers HD radio 16-bit 44,1 kHz (same as airplay2). That brings me to my final thought about Sonos Radio HD. Although the Amazon Music Unlimited will offer that too, using just the S2 app connected to an Arc or Beam (gen2). Which I believe is a real ‘game changer’ in the experience of music. But if you own an Apple TV 4K, have it connected to an eARC TV and have an Arc or a Beam (gen2) you are able to get “Spatial audio” which is Atmos Music. Even if you’re streaming a hi-res labeled file via airplay it gets downsampled to CD quality. For the purposes of this discussion you basically get CD quality whether you stream via S2 app or native Qobuz app via AirPlay. If you look in the numbers of quality using the S2 app, it’s even more worse than Spotify using the S2 app. People have been asking for real time bitrate display on the Sonos app for years and it’s been consistently ignored. She tolerates me to frequently buy Sonos hardware, so we both are kind of satisfied with this situation □.Īpple Music is what I had before diving into the world of Sonos. And I don't want to make her upset by canceling it. My wife kind of demanded me to keep Qubuz, since she is al about that streaming service. They have very good curated playlists which matches my taste, but that's personal off course. On the other hand, I like Qobuz most of its musical experience. Maybe I’m just a music nerd, who is psychical about the numbers, LoL □ Not to mention, my 48 year-old ears can't even notice the difference between those 2. ![]() But when streaming from the Qubus app using Airplay2, the quality will also downgraded to 16-bit, 44,1 kHz. That said, I can’t see in the S2 app if the music is available in 24-bit 48 kHz (everything in a higher bitrate will be downgraded, which is a bummer). Qobuz, because I like the idea to get the high quality out of my Sonos system when streaming using the S2 app. As mentioned before I did choose Qobuz and Apple Music. The above 4 are the only ones I considered I would pay for. I don’t go trough all the services, because there are so many out there. Sonos Targets Audiophiles By Adding 24-Bit Qobuz Streaming To S2 Platform () 104 Posted by BeauHD on Thursday Ma05:00AM from the studio-quality-content dept. Apple Music: 64kbps HE-AAC, 128kbps AAC, 256kbps AAC. ![]() But… Tracks with higher sampling rate than 48 kHz will be delivered to your Sonos hardware as 16-bit 44,1 kHz FLAC (CD lossless quality).
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