(05-Dec-2017, 16:45)martin_a Wrote: Hi guys,
I would like to try a few albums on Hi Res quality from Qobuz to see if I switch from Tidal to Qobuz.
I have bought an album in the Hi Res quality and played it on Spark but I would like to know how to be sure that I'm playing the Hi Res version, I'm searching for a Qobuz & Spark tutorial but didn't found it.
Congrats! You made the 1000th thread in the Phantom section of the forum! Welcome.
When you set in Spark in the Qobuz setup Hires as audio quality and have either the Qobuz sublime or the Qobuz Sublime+ subscription Spark will stream in Hires. The Qobuz sublime subscription however only streams purchased Hires albums in Hires whereas Sublime+ streams all Hires albums in Hires. However, there is no way to see which datarate is streamed. Your ears need to hear the difference. You can so stream Qobuz with a Mac or PC and feed an optical signal to the Phantoms. The optical stream you can check reg. resolution and sampling frequency. Don‘t use the optical input of the dialog as it is still buggy (hi frequency crackels). But the Phantoms play up to 24bit/192kHz. Downloads play well through Spark and in full Hires quality.
