You Can Now Listen To Amazon Music Ultra HD & Dolby Atmos On These Speakers

You Can Now Listen To Amazon Music Ultra HD & Dolby Atmos On These Speakers

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Sonos is adding support for Amazon Music’s Ultra HD and Dolby Atmos catalog. Users will need to update their speakers’ firmware for it to work.

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You Can Now Listen To Amazon Music Ultra HD & Dolby Atmos On These Speakers

Today, Sonos is adding support for Amazon Music Ultra HD and Dolby Atmos for a handful of its speakers. 2021 seems to be the year lossless and high-resolution music goes mainstream. Closing out 2021, Amazon Music, Apple Music, Tidal, Qobuz, and Deezer all now support high-resolution music in some way, shape, or form.

Amazon Music specifically goes all in and supports hi-res lossless (Ultra HD) audio up to 24-bits at 192 kHz. The service also supports spatial audio via the Dolby Atmos codec. Amazon has tens of thousands of tracks in Ultra HD quality and a few thousand tracks mastered in Dolby Atmos. In addition, Amazon has 75 million tracks in the standard CD (HD) quality.

According to a report from Digital Trends, Sonos owners will be able to play Amazon Ultra HD and Dolby Atmos content through select speakers and soundbars starting today. For Atmos, users will need a Sonos Arc or second-generation Beam soundbar. Users can play ultra HD tracks on the Sonos Amp, Arc, Beam, Connect (2nd generation), Connect: Amp (second generation), Five and Play:5 (second generation), Move, One, One SL, Port, Roam, Sub, Symfonisk Bookshelf and Symfonisk Table Lamp devices. To unlock the functionality, users will need to update their Sonos devices to the latest firmware update. From there, users will need to sign into an Amazon Music Unlimited account, if not already. Then, when an Ultra HD or Dolby Atmos track is played, the now playing card will show the indicator.

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A Musical Upgrade

It’s worth noting that Ultra HD content will be limited to 24-bit, 48 kHz when played through Sonos. This is a hardware limitation as audiophile music streaming service Qobuz launched support for lossless and hi-res lossless on Sonos earlier this year with a similar limitation. However, most listeners won’t notice the difference. Surround sound music is cool if mastered correctly. But surround sound music is in its early days and is primarily a gimmick for now.

Now that Amazon Music is on board, it wouldn’t be all that surprising if Sonos adds support for Apple Music’s lossless and Dolby Atmos. That seems inevitable at this point. Sonos has always been an excellent option for tech enthusiasts who want a great-sounding speaker and smart functionality. Sadly, despite announcing support for lossless earlier this year, Spotify HiFi is still MIA. The company said back then that it would launch its HiFi tier later this year but has been radio silent ever since. So, either Spotify announces more details and launches its new tier in the coming weeks or it will most definitely not launch by the end of the year. It’s a shame, really, as Spotify remains the number one music streaming worldwide, with Apple Music being a distant second.

Link Source : https://screenrant.com/amazon-music-ultra-hd-dolby-atmos-sonos-speakers/

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