Qobuz has announced that it will be bringing its online music streaming and downloading service to the USA beginning in mid-2018.
The Qobuz music catalogue containing 40-million tracks in at least 44.1kHz/16bit (CD quality) FLAC format will be made available for streaming with one million of them (equivalent to 80,000 albums) available in true HiRes 192kHz/24bit. Several formats are available for downloads (FLAC, ALAC, AIFF, WMA, WAV) and the entire catalogue is available for either streaming or downloading without any up-sampling or re-encoding.
Qobuz works on Mac, iOS, Android and Windows operating systems and is integrated with many suppliers of HiFi equipment.
Qobuz is available for Hi-Res streaming on connected audio systems such as ChromeCast; built-in enabled products Sony, Naim, JBL, Harman Kardon, LG, B&O Play, Philips, Vizio, Pioneer, Onkyo, Grundig, Polk and Raumfeld; multi-room audio leaders such as Sonos, Yamaha MusicCast, Bluesound, Devialet, Linn and Samsung; and high-end brands such as Mark Levinson, Auralic, Aurender, Lumin, T+A, AVM, Burmester, Esoteric and Sim Audio.
Qobuz is compatible with DTS Play-Fi and all associated brands, such as McIntosh, Sonus Faber, Paradigm, Phorus, Rotel, Thiel, Anthem, Arcam, Definitive technology, Klipsch, Martin Logan, Dish, and many more.
Qobuz can also be played via Bluetooth, Airplay and third party applications such as BubbleUPnP (Android), USB Audio Player Pro (Android), mConnect (iOS & Android), Audirvana (Mac), Kodi, and Hercules Djuced.
Founded in 2007, Qobuz is currently available in 11 countries: Germany, Austria, Belgium, Spain, France, Italy, Ireland, Luxembourg, Netherlands, United-Kingdom and Switzerland.
For more information and current pricing visit Qobuz here.
