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How about classicsonlinehd.com?

Posted by srl1 (A) on January 10, 2015 at 18:17:45

In Reply to: Lossless streaming, anyone? posted by raingerz on January 9, 2015 at 22:28:40:

Naxos has started up a streaming service for mainly classical music. They have it set up for PC, Mac, iOS, and Android. The minimum bit rate is lossless 16/44.1, and they have 24/44.1, 24/48, 24/96 and 24/192 (I have not seen 24/88 or 24/176 but they might have them, too).

The streaming service is $14.99/month with a two-week free trial. They use PayPal.

Of course, they have Naxos, but also many of the labels they distribute. I have found Pentatone (mostly only lossless), and I have found at least the following labels with HD streaming: Coro, CPO, Dacapo, Genuin, Reference Recordings, Sono Luminus, Atma, Arcana, NMC, Zig-zag, and many more.

I have used mainly the iPod (iOS) app. It is a little buggy, but mainly when using the AirPlay interface. This is the way I get the music to my main system. The sound through headphones via my iPod Touch 5 is very good, and it definitely sounds better than Spotify. The search function is not great, but a lot of that may be my ignorance. The iOS app does not take advantage of version 7, but that will probably come eventually. My biggest complaint so far is that you cannot get back to the page that is playing if you wander around the app while music is playing (unlike Spotify or iPeng for the Squeezebox), but I hope they will work on upgrading the app.

I only have a 10M connection, but I have had no problem streaming 24/96 or 24/192.

I am surprised nothing has been said about this service at AA (unless I missed it, but I do lurk here almost every day). I found out via a thread at sa-cd.net.

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