Ultimately, TIDAL HiFi Plus users get better quality music more of the time.

Users are exposed to sudden and significant variations in network quality, as well as capped mobile data plans. TIDAL’s efficiency is even more critical when listening on-the-go. Consequently, when streaming the highest available quality, TIDAL averages just 1.3 Mbps up against Amazon’s 3.7 Mbps. MQA audio ingeniously folds, streams and then unfolds the music file. TIDAL places less demand on your network. This is the level that Amazon Ultra HD is shooting for.

Using MQA’s ‘music origami’ streaming technology to deliver its TIDAL Masters recordings. Another is to consider how TIDAL HiFi Plus overcomes network challenges. One of the takeaways here is, and not for the first or last time, always read the smallprint. To check, you can tap the SD/HD/Ultra HD badge on the Now Playing screen and view the ‘currently playing at’ tab. One minute you could be listening in Amazon Ultra HD quality, the next you may be shunted down to HD or Amazon Standard Definition (SD) meaning compressed audio with a max of 320 kbps. Explore What Hi-Fi?'s TIDAL Masters tracks to give you a taste of MQA to hear the difference for yourself.īeware, though, when streaming Amazon Music HD tracks, if network conditions drop off then so can track quality. Amazon’s HD songs stream in ‘up to 850 kbps’ and its Ultra HD songs in ‘up to 3730 kbps’. It offers two standards: High Definition (HD) and Ultra HD. This goes up against TIDAL HiFi Plus’s max of 384 kHz. Amazon Music HD’s maximum available quality is 192 kHz. Let’s start by looking beyond the prices - discounts and trial offers come and go, and let’s not champion a race to the bottom. So, what does Amazon Music HD deliver? And how does it compare to TIDAL, the multi-award winning music streaming service? Here we aim to battle out the ultimate TIDAL vs Amazon Music HD Sound Quality debate. The following article compares the audio quality offerings from TIDAL and the e-commerce giant: TIDAL vs Amazon Music HD Sound Quality. If they didn’t, a company of Amazon’s remarkable size and extraordinary customer insight wouldn’t even bother to get involved. The launch of Amazon Music HD provided further confirmation that consumers do care about their music sound quality.

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