The good news is that, last year, Amazon stopped charging for HD streaming with its Unlimited Plans and so, if you've been using Sonos and Amazon Music, you'd be tapping into the HD streams where available - and there's lots of them to choose from over 75 million at the last count.Įssential guide: Understanding Amazon Music Unlimited There's a bit more to it than that, but that's the basic line. 'CD-quality'.ĬD-quality, when it comes to music streaming, is the consumer friendly way of describing 16-bit tracks. Amazon Music HD has worked hand in hand with Sonos speakers for a while now.Įssentially, if you have an Amazon Music Unlimited plan, and you stream to Sonos using Bezos' music platform, you'd be making the most of the HD tier i.e. 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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