In Reply to: Amazon HiRes reviews posted by Victor Khomenko on May 5, 2020 at 06:01:07:
" Has anyone seen a resource with reviews or recommendations of particular files there?"
In general reviews from an audiophile viewpoint have been stymied by the fact that the dedicated downloadable player apps from Amazon have no provision to allow the opening of exclusive sessions (e.g. WASAPI etc.). Therefore unless the format resolution configured in the computer's sound mixer fortuitously matches that of the file being streamed a bit perfect stream will not be sent to the DAC, only one that has been up or downsampled by the computer mixer.
However hardware players incorporating HEOS (Denon, Marantz) appear to allow the opening of exclusive sessions when streaming from this source.
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