Qobuz Qobuz versus Tidal for WiiM Pro Plus

[KCS]

When you cast audio from the Google home app on your phone to WiiM, and play the video on the Youtube app, the audio will be output from WiiM.

Thanks for the tips.

Amazon provides multiple audio quality files (SD/HD/UHD) for each track. These different files are automatically selected by the user's playback environment.

Therefore, Amazon and WiiM do not need to use down sampling. This is also the case with other Hi-Res streaming services.

Hmm. The song was recorded only once in HiRes. I assume the record label down sampled it to different quality for Amazon. One interesting thing I notice is when I lower Wiim output resolution, the same track sometimes shows different kbps even though it is showing the same kHz and bits. Looks like there is no relationship between kbps and kHz/bits.

 

[BowsAndArrows]

If you really wanna know if you can hear the difference between hi res vs 320kbps mp3 (I believe they used - which is notably BELOW the bitrate in CD 16/44.1) then try this test out... https://www.npr.org/sections/therecord/2015/06/02/411473508/how-well-can-you-hear-audio-quality
I can tell the difference especially on acoustic/classical recordings. CD vs 24,/96, I'm not so sure I can do that reliably... but as others have mentioned a lot of the quality of the end product depends on the mixing/mastering. Esp lack of dynamic range sounds pretty terrible even in hi res.