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“From rock to hip-hop to classical and pop, we believe listening to music at this level of sound will make customers fall in love again with their favourite music and artists. “We spoke with many artists while developing Amazon Music HD, who were excited about the potential for fans to be able to stream their favourite music, and hear it as it was originally recorded,” said Steve Boom, VP of Amazon Music. New subscribers to Amazon Music can receive a 90-day free trial, and current subscribers can try Amazon Music HD at no additional cost for 90 days. The new tier is priced at £14.99 a month, or £12.99 for Prime members - a £5 additional cost to cover Amazon's licensing deals with the labels on premium quality music.Īmazon Music HD is now available to stream in the UK, US, Germany, Austria and Japan.

The service also has millions of songs in Ultra High Definition, the highest quality streaming audio available.

If they can work out the glitches on the mobile (at least for me) Music HD could be a big deal for lossless audio streaming.Amazon Music has launched its Amazon Music HD tier with 50 million songs in High Definition. Overall I am very happy with the service on my desktop. Strangely downloads is set to standard quality, so before downloading make sure to switch that too. One weird thing is that in order to ensure the highest quality streaming (and downloading) make sure to go into the advanced settings and set streaming quality from best available to HD/ULTRAHD only. Even regular non ultra HD tracks still play CD quality though, at 16 bit 44.1 My DAC is capable of 24 bit/96khz but there are some tracks that go up to 192khz. This made it harder to compare, but it definitely sounds good… Ultra HD seems to need a lot more ampage than spotify counterpart…Like I had to turn the volume knob way up on my liquid spark to achieve similar volume. Using LGV30, the music sounds completely choppy and unplayable, which is extremely disappointing However, it works great on my desktop setup. Strangely, I can only get the service to work on my desktop. Amazon upgraded their music service to now offer 24 bit lossless music, up to 192khz! They are also offering 90 days free trial so its definitely worth a look.