HiRes Archives

SuperStereo Radio Chile adds Roon and Squeezebox compatible streams

19/07/2023

SuperStereo Radio Chile adds Roon and Squeezebox compatible streams for 3 of its channels following problems of playback with metadata. The station has enabled CD Quality Lossless FLAC streams without metadata for SuperStereo 1, SuperStereo 3 and SuperStereo 4. The streams links for the CD Quality Lossless FLAC streams are: SuperStereo 1: http://198.204.228.202:8160/nodata SuperStereo 3: http://198.204.228.202:8539/nodata SuperStereo 4: http://198.204.228.202:8643/nodata Stream links for the HiRes and CD Quality Lossless FLAC streams are as follows: SuperStereo 1 […]

TIDAL starts to rollout HiRes FLAC

01/07/2023

TIDAL starts to rollout HiRes FLAC to its Early Access Program (EAP) users on iOS according to a recent reddit post by TIDAL CEO Jesse Dorogusker. The streamer is now offering high resolution content in FLAC format, up to 24-bit 192kHz. For those on the EAP programme you can access this now by updating your beta app, and selecting ‘Max’ quality in the new Audio & Playback settings screen. Dorogusker said, “We’re choosing FLAC as […]

Mother Earth Radio upgrades its streams

11/06/2023

Mother Earth Radio upgrades its streams broadcasting FLAC at 192kHz on two of its three channels. In a recent announcement the station’s found Florian Reiterer said, “We have a big update on Mother Earth Radio, we are now broadcasting in 192kHz sampling rate. That’s why we have also radically eliminated all CDs or similar and now only play vinyl or HiRes Audio files. The recordings are now made with a record needle with up to […]

Qobuz goes live in Canada

20/04/2023

Qobuz goes live in Canada making its HiRes streaming and download service available in 26 countries. The launch was originally promised for May but they have managed to deliver ahead of time. After Northern Europe, Australia, and New Zealand in 2021, and Latin America in 2022, Qobuz’ arrival today in Canada responds to a growing need among Canadian music aficionados and audiophiles for high-quality music streaming and download offerings. Qobuz has an extensive lossless catalogue […]

TIDAL to support HiRes FLAC

15/04/2023

TIDAL to support HiRes FLAC was the surprise announcement from Jesse Dorogusker, CEO of TIDAL in an AMA (Ask Me Anything) session on reddit at the beginning of the week. When asked about MQA he gave the following reply: “So many questions about MQA and hi-resolution audio. I hope we don’t spend all of our time on audio format details, but it’s an AMA and you’re asking. TIDAL has cared about high quality and even […]

Qobuz makes a play to be the Classical music streamer

08/04/2023

Qobuz makes a play to be the Classical music streamer saying that 19% of its catalogue is Classical according to a recent statement by the company. Following on from the recent launch of Apple Music Classical, Qobuz points out that its has been streaming Classical music since its founding in 2007 and has offered classical music fans exclusive content, classical music-centred curation, editorial, playlists, and more. As it has evolved from its French roots, through […]

SuperStereo 8

18/03/2023

In the beginning of March SuperStereo Radio Chile closed down its latest channel – SuperStereo 8. In an email to one of its listeners it said, “SuperStereo 8 closed its broadcasts, our corporate building contains 7 departments for each station plus the technical and administrative area, so we will focus only on the 7 existing stations on our website.” SuperStereo 8 was a soul and ballads from the 70s, 80s and 90s genre channel broadcasting […]