Amazon has added “high definition” and “ultra high definition” options to its music-streaming service, taking hi-fi music into the mass market
announced on Tuesday that it is launching Amazon Music HD, a new tier of its existing music-streaming service that delivers lossless audio streaming — at both higher quality and a higher cost.
The new service, available immediately in the U.S., UK, Germany, and Japan, is priced at $12.99 a month for Amazon Prime members and $14.99 a month for non-Prime members; current Amazon Music subscribers can upgrade to the HD tier for an extra $5 a month. Amazon is offering a 90-day free trial for the new service, which will deliver 50 million songs at 16-bit/44.1kHz and several million other songs at the higher-quality depth of 24 bits and sample rate of up to 192kHz .
Surveys also revealed that non-audiophile music fans have a generally fractured understanding of the terms “high resolution,” “high quality,” “high fidelity,” and the no-less-murky abbreviation “hi-fi” — and though all of these are the same thing, some listeners think the terms are referencing different levels of quality — which is why Amazon decided to go with simply “HD” for its new tier’s branding, Boom says.
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