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Apple Music HIFI edition

I left Spotify as it does not offer HIFI and went to Apple Music hifi. I then discovered that Apple Music does not offer connectivity to my streamer (NAD C658) (Blue sound app) or any streamer for that matter.  So I believe connecting via air play is the only option.  My question is whether I would be better off with Spotify connecting as a source inside my Streamer (non hifi) vs Apple hifi via air play?  
Also-not interested in Tidal or qobuz. Tidal’s shuffle feature plays the same 30 songs over and over again. Qobuz you cannot even create a station.  Good lord.  Terrible algorithms imo.  

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cleeds
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mahler123

It’s probably half a loaf either way. I use AirPlay sometimes but it’s definitely lossy

Are you sure?

I thought Airplay was 16/44.1. That’s bandwidth limited if you’re playing hi-res, but that’s not exactly "lossy."

mahler123
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Eh, I don’t know about that.  I use AirPlay with my Home Pod and that seems ok, but when I use it with my Cambridge Audio CXN streamer , using Qobuz standard resolution files from my Android Phone, and then compare it to the same Qobuz files played directly on the streamer, AirPlay sounds worse.).  I also read a poster in a different forum who has equipment that can measure file size who claimed that AirPlay was coming in at less than the advertised setting).

  AirPlay also drives me nuts in that when I try to play a file from either the phone or iPad it frequently will play a different file, one that I may have listened to weeks ago.  I created a thread here and no one was helpful, and Apple Support was clueless (“It just does that” was the extent of their support).

  Having said all that, AirPlay is still a valuable tool to have and I use it

totem395
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Airplay 2 is the current Apple option and limited to 16/44 but Spotify is

even less. Want Apple at higher res go hard wired from the appropriate

Apple product.

 

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