For the same quality as Spotify, Qobuz costs £10 a month (or £100 a year) but there is a cheaper £5 a month option for Mac and PC only, without app access. For the premium quality service with True CD quality FLAC, it will set you back £20 a month (or £200 for the year) [FLAC (Free Lossless Audio Codec) is a codec for the lossless compression of digital audio. Digital audio compressed by FLACs algorithm can typically be reduced to 50–60% of its original size and decompressed to an identical copy of the original audio data. FLAC is an open format with royalty-free licensing and a reference implementation which is free software. FLAC has support for metadata tagging, album cover art, and fast-seeking.] Qobuz will work on Mac and PC, offering FLAC, Apple Lossless or Windows Media files. Qobuz works with Sonos sound systems offering high-quality audio even in 5.1 surround. It is also available in app form for iOS and Android devices. If sound quality is of great importance to you, especially if you own a Sonos system, you should consider Qobuz. It also represents a potential saving over Spotify, if you pay annually. To clarify, Spotify goes up to 320kbit/s with its Extreme Quality stream. The basic speed for Qobuz is at the equivalent of 1411.2kbit/s, while its Studio Master performs at a whopping 2116.8kbit/s.
Posted on: Thu, 13 Mar 2014 09:17:49 +0000
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