Through HD I came across Amarra Play and Luxe, found it mentioned on these forums and am evaluating it before buying, so far am impressed. Now news surfaced regarding Apple changing the way iTunes will be packaged, and being a cynic, figure that this change is unlikely to be for my benefit, more for Apple's, I figured I should look at alternative players. I used Fidelia on the Mac to play through our HiFi, but believed nothing could be done to play these files through the portable devices.įidelia is not an easy system to use, the interface seems cumbersome so I became a less frequent music listener. I hadn't considered how tied to one system / manufacturer we had become until I started collecting FLAC 24 bit music which iTunes won't play. Mike Jbara, CEO of MQA: “ It’s good news for music fans that we continue to expand the reach of MQA through partner integrations and the Amarra range is a great addition.My other half and I have been customers of Apple for a heck of a long time and unlikely to change, the hardware is pretty good, we have always used iTunes to play the music on and it seemed quite logical to use the same system across all devices. With Windows MQA support coming soon our future plans include iOS integration for MQA streaming/offline playback, DSP processing and more.” With direct MQA decoding, consumers will now experience unrivaled music reproduction. Jonathan Reichbach, CEO of Sonic Studio: “ Sonic Studio is excited to release the first MQA integration and experience for the Amarra family of products. Amarra 4 Luxe supports Mac OS X 10.8 (Mountain Lion) or higher as well as Windows 8 & 10 (MQA pending). World class DSP includes our multi-stage upsampling as well as a fully customizable, professional-level EQ, with pre-sets for different genres, speakers or headphones. With Amarra 4 Luxe users can sort, search, navigate, and play back their entire music collection. Amarra users without an MQA-enabled DAC can enjoy MQA decoding at 2x sample rates (88.2kHz or 96kHz), while users with an MQA-Decoder enabled DAC will hear full MQA with the original master sample rate, platform-specific DAC compensation and sample rates up to 8x (352kHz or 384kHz). MQA files are fully authenticated and small enough to stream or download, while also being backward compatible, so they can be played on any device.Īmarra 4 Luxe supports local MQA file playback and additionally supports TIDAL MQA Streaming for HiFi subscribers. MQA (Master Quality Authenticated) delivers the sound of the original master recording. Sonic Studio announces the release of Amarra 4 Luxe v4.1 featuring integrated MQA audio technology.
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