![]() Studio Premier Family: £19.99 per month (no strings attached).Studio Duo: £14.99 per month, total of £179.88 billed annually.Studio Duo: £17.99 per month (no strings attached).Studio Premier: £10.83 per month, total of £129.99 billed annually.Studio Premier: £12.99 per month (no strings attached).With the Studio Premier Family subscription, family members living under the same roof can share up to six Qobuz accounts in a single subscription. Studio Premier Duo gives couples living under the same roof two individual accounts in a single subscription. Studio Premier gives you access to Qobuz’s entire 70-million catalogue of albums in HiRes and CD Quality, all available for streaming. Studio Premier / Studio Premier Duo / Studio Premier Family Substitute a € or a $ for European and US prices respectively. Qobuz provides two main subscription plans – a HiRes (96kHz/24bit FLAC or higher) streaming service and a combined HiRes and CD streaming plus download service. ![]() They is also a Duo option for its Sublime subscription plan – see below for details. Qobuz introduced a couples subscription plan in January 2022 branded Duo which gives the second user an individual Studio account for an additional £4.16 per month. In October 2021, its parent company Xandrie purchased e-onkyo music from Onkyo Corporation giving it a foothold in Japan. From September 2021, Qobuz reviewed and lowered its price plans making its Studio Sublime streaming and download plan an interesting option for those who still value permanent downloads. In 2021 their Sonos integration was upgraded to HiRes and they started to expand their availability adding an additional six countries in the Nordic countries and Australasia in April. In June 2020 the company rolled out a Family Plan option to its Studio Premier service allowing 6 individual accounts to access the service but still does not offer either a student or couples plan. Qobuz has extensive desktop and mobile support and has an impressive range of integrations to hi-fi equipment being the first to provide CD quality streaming for the SONOS range of multi-room audio systems and more recently for GoogleCast-enabled products. In early 2020 Qobuz announced that it would be dropping its support for MP3 streaming. Its other product is a premium offering called Sublime+ which in addition to HiRes streaming offers substantial discounts on its download catalogue. The main streaming plan is Studio Premier which offers HiRes lossless FLAC streaming in up to 24bit 192kHz quality. It was the first online music service to adopt 24bit HiRes in its catalogue and in the summer of 2015, it launched HiRes Streaming with its Qobuz Sublime+ subscription.ĭuring the past few years Qobuz has positioned itself as a top end HiRes streaming and download service and has gradually transitioned from 4 subscription plans to two. In 2009 it offered the first CD quality download catalogue and in 2011 the first CD quality streaming service. Qobuz is currently available in twelve countries: Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Spain, Switzerland, United Kingdom, and the United States.Qobuz was launched in 2008 and has achieved a series of notable firsts. The upshot of this latest Sonos/Qobuz upgrade is that end users now have the option to stream roughly 2% of the Qobuz library in 24bit/44.1kHz or 24bit/48kHz it also means that around 98% of that same library will still stream in the same CD-quality that Qobuz subscribers using Sonos have enjoyed since 2019 when the streaming service walked away from lossy MP3 encoding. Qobuz will instead – for now at least – serve a CD-quality (16bit/44.1kHz) stream. We might presume that S2 Sonos hardware simply downsamples all 24bit/96kHz and 24bit/192kHz streams to 24bit/48kHz - but we’d be wrong. (What happens next I had to pull not from the press release but from my Qobuz press contact). And the details of S2 Sonos hardware is that its 1) D/A conversion is capped at 24bit/48kHz and – therefore – 2) anyone pulling down a Qobuz stream (via the S2 Sonos app) with a sample rate higher than 48kHz will hit a wrinkle. Well, sort of.Īs with our recent Cambridge Audio x Tidal Connect story, the devil lives in the details. ![]() Around 4% of the French streaming service’s 70-million song library is available in hi-res – anything from 24bit/48kHz to 24bit/192kHz – and that hi-res content will now play via S2 Sonos gear. Makers of the world’s best-known music streaming speakers Sonos have today announced the imminent availability of 24-bit hi-res streaming for anyone using Qobuz in conjunction with their S2 platform.
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