I’ve just discovered that qobuz is making their entire library available for streaming at 44.1khz 16 bit FLAC. In other words at full CD quality, since FLAC is a lossless format. Their “HiFi” subscription for this is a bit expensive at €29 per month. If you spend that much or more on CD’s per month though, it might well be worth it.

I’ve been testing the service over the last few days and it works ex-streamly (pun intended) well. This is a bit like Spotify on steroids for the serious music lover/audiophile. Hopefully, Spotify and others will follow suite. Then will it really make sense for iTunes to continue to sell their music at a compressed lossy format?

See also these comments on Computer Audiophile.

…and here at gearslutz.

Stereo Times have just published a gushing review of the Burson HA160D combined DAC and Headphone amp. Once again Sound Galleries were ahead of the game. We’ve been featuring the full range of Burson equipment from Australia for almost a year now.