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manumapi said:
Spotify Hi-fi was not in the course of action of its devices, Qobuz Connect was
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WiiM did agree to work with Qobuz on this matter, but it's still up to Qobuz to develop their protocol. If Qobuz doesn't deliver then there's nothing WiiM can do about it.

I don't know if they shifted their focus because of the long delayed caused by Qobuz.
 
Someone referred to Qobuz size…

Qobuz is a tiny company still venture-capital backed.

In 2019 its number of subscribers was a tiny 200k. Today still surely less than 1M.

www.digitalmusicnews.com

Qobuz Has 200,000 Paying Customers — 25,000 In the U.S.

Qobuz hi-res music service launched in the US, gained 25K subscribers; aims to reach 1% of the market. Comparison with Tidal and Deezer.
www.digitalmusicnews.com www.digitalmusicnews.com

A tiny company in the streaming world. I do not see their having any IP others do not have.
 
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Streaming service need to add more to their service such as selling hardware to tailor their service to go along with it. Relying solely just streaming the growth would be just gradual instead exponential. Spotify been adding all sort of feature that could make them more. One thing for sure no human being will ever be happy even their money stretch to Pluto.
 
Hi everyone, thanks all for jumping on this! We've shared the current list with Qobuz and they'll be reaching out to people. We've closed the survey down for now, but we'll let you know if it gets reopened!
 
Burnside said:
Amazon music will play everything at the max resolution of the device it’s playing on if that’s windows, iOS, Fire o/s or Android even when connected to an external DAC. However, third party implementations from device rather than o/s manufacturers like Bluesound , Denon, Yamaha and of course WiiM will play bitperfect from their own apps. Where the others fall down but WiiM doesn’t is playing bit perfect from the Amazon Music app or Alexa to their devices - WiiM is still the only one that does that to the best of my knowledge, from the Mini upwards.
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I seldom comment on the sound quality differences I perceive while tinkering, but I do feel that the upscaling performed by the Amazon Music iOS app prior to being sent via the Apple CCK cable to a DAC does have a detrimental effect on SQ compared to using the optical bit-perfect transfer from a WiiM device to the same DAC. Thank goodness this feature exists on the WiiMs.
 
Smartplug said:
Streaming service need to add more to their service such as selling hardware to tailor their service to go along with it. Relying solely just streaming the growth would be just gradual instead exponential. Spotify been adding all sort of feature that could make them more. One thing for sure no human being will ever be happy even their money stretch to Pluto.
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Most companies know rather well where their strengths and their markets lie. There is a world of difference between the skillset that makes a strong Streaming Company (UX and DB and Internet Hosting, and Content Management and even Content Development) versus a strong Electronics Hardware Manufacturer (Component R&D, Supply Chain, Manufacturing, Packaging, Distribution, and Systems Software Design). Stretching a company's resources into an unrelated realm isn't done easily - or often.
Unless Spotify is sitting on a major stash of available cash, making a move into Mid-Fi/Hi-Fi hardware (or even simply acquiring such a company) would be seen as very risky.
 
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