44.1K/16bit is not a HD format. I don't know why Amazon call it HiRes. for most people an MP3 320kps is more than enough and compact on mobile device. For audiophile folks on this forum, 96K/24bit is barely minimum. I would say 192k/24bit or DSD64 get you into real HiFi. And only Qobuz have the most HiRe. Tidal's MQA is 2nd next to Qubuz.
Amazon Launches Lossless "Hi-rez" HD Music Service
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Thank you usery for your link to the https://people.xiph.org/~xiphmont/demo/neil-young.html link. Now i know for sure that the higher res files (beyond cd quality) don't matter to me and that I couldn't really tell a difference between Spotify at high quality sound setting and Amazon cd quality or ultra high resolution sound quality. Of course i also discovered on the audiocheck.net website that i can't hear anything above 13kHz either! |
as for the so called "free" trial
I signed up yesterday thinking what's to lose with a free trial. Then I see a $7.99 charge from Amazon Music on my credit card today. I call and am told that the HD trial is free but you have to have a $7.99 unlimited account to get the free trial. Of course, I ask how can it be free when I get charged $7.99? They said again, only free if you pay for unlimited
I canceled and got my $7.99 back
first they have a setting that says you get HD downloads when it turns out that is not actually a download even when you pay for the song like I foolishly did, it is only for offline listening, any actual download is low resolution MP3, now this
f**k em, I'm done with em |
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