Where available, I listened to the Ultra HD version on Amazon and MQA on Tidal, I specify where that was not the case. As this gets loud, the volume was somewhere below 9 o’clock, just above where it would start getting imbalanced – gives plenty of detail without hurting my ears). The Zen Dac had both the “Power Match” and the “Truebass” buttons on. The headphones are new and not fully broken in yet.

System: both apps out of an iPhone 11pro, with the camera adapter to send signal to USB, into a iFi Zen Dac powered with its dedicated power adapter, listening with Hifiman Sundara with stock cable. This is done not blinded, simply switching back and forth on the same song between the two applications, but I had pretty good equipoise starting out. Here is my brief head-to-head set of impressions, with some questions about others’ impressions and thoughts. I have just started my trial with Amazon HD after about a year of using Tidal. Roon isn’t for everyone, I have often been sceptical, but if Roon added more streaming services it would be a great bridge to all Roon enabled streamers. Without simple methods to play Amazon ‘HD’ content to your hi-fi the whole thing seems a bit of a gimmick to me, at least the way I listen to music,Īlthough native integration of more streaming services would be good, the newer streamers/Uniti range really benefit from having Roon compatibility.

No end of issues with Chromecast over the years, my biggest gripe being lack of gapless playback without jumping through hoops. I’ve actually found Airplay to be very good, even if limited to CD quality.

It’ll still work via Chromecast, just not in ‘HD’ right now. (Though of course AirPlay 2 tops out at CD quality…) You are correct! Apple AirPlay 2 does, though, so that’s potentially best-quality option for now.

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