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When Radio Mode is turned on, Roon continues to reach out on its own accord (an example of ‘machine learning’) to consecutively choose and play other tracks of music for you from among all libraries it has access to. Roon’s Radio Mode includes the Qobuz library and, of course, your own library (and Tidal’s if you also have a subscription). When I spoke to Solomon on the phone about my setup, he expressed his enthusiasm and excitement of Roon’s inclusion of Qobuz as a major event by saying, ‘It offers the one thing that completes Qobuz, your own library and Tidal’. (Your own internal albums have no logo.) This way I could play all three possibilities (internal, Qobuz, Tidal) via the Roon Remote App on my iPad, and when checking the signal path on Roon, it mentions which of the three the source file is from. Qobuz album covers have a small circular Qobuz logo on their left top corner just as Tidal has its small logo there for its albums. You can click on any one of them to browse they are listed on the front page of the Roon Remote app. All your other libraries (internal on the hard drive of your server and Tidal) are there, too. Then, all the Qobuz music in your subscription is at your fingertips to play on your music server-along with extraordinary Roon metadata support. With a subscription to Qobuz, one can login to Qobuz on the Roon Remote App from (say) an iPad/iPhone. So in effect the music player and DAC are connected via ethernet cabling and connected to the internet. The music server is connected to the internet with an ethernet cable into my router as is my DAC. I used Roon, with its Core (new version 1.6 at this writing) on my music server ( Mojo Audio Deja Vu Music Server) connected to my DAC ( PS Audio DirectStream with Bridge II ethernet card, and recent Snowmass OS upgrade). I am very grateful to Hannah Schwartz (Shore Fire Media Publicist for Qobuz) and Eric Benoit (Qobuz US Marketing & Operations Manager) for quickly getting me up and running with Qobuz for this review. When the collaboration was announced, I was immediately ready and excited to dive into Qobuz.

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Roon Labs has evolved into the preferred music player software for many audiophiles. Adding more buzz: Just the other day some pleasant and important news was announced: Qobuz was incorporated into the Roon Labs player software (just as Tidal has been for some time). Suffice it to say, I was very impressed at what I heard. I had the pleasure of hearing some of their files at Rocky Mountain Audio Fest 2018 and the 2018 New York Audio Show. Some beta testing in the USA began in Fall of 2018. Qobuz now has a USA headquarters based in New York City, and expects to offer its services very soon: According to Qobuz Chief Hi-Res Music Evangelist David Solomon the launch date is February 14, 2019– Valentine’s Day! However, it has only been available in a few countries compared to the giant Tidal that operates in over fifty.

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You can also download a Hi-Res library on your iPhone/iPad and play music while traveling (one just has to login on a web browser and download).Ī French company founded in 2007, Qobuz has been first in many things involving streaming. As an exhibitor, I’d think that was cool. For example, at an audio show (where the internet might be too slow or unpredictable), a company can download onto a desktop a library of native Hi-Res Qobuz files to use instead of streaming them over the internet.

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Qobuz also allows you to import native Hi-Res music FLAC files onto a desktop computer for offline listening (they are unique in allowing/enabling that) and to purchase Hi-Res downloads. Many of the albums include the names of musicians, the producers, and the lyrics, and they publish weekly interactive online articles. As such, Qobuz maintains a large and diverse selection of music in many genres even their classical selection is given close attention. A Qobuz mantra is, ‘Qobuz: quality sound, always’. And they have over two million 24 bit Hi-Res files already twice as many as Tidal’s MQA collection (more about MQA below). Crucially, their files are curated carefully and thoughtfully from the best original sources they can get their hands on. Yes: flawless lossless streaming of even native 24/192 FLAC files. Qobuz is a subscription based digital music provider/streaming service that is quickly gaining attention by offering lossless streaming of high-resolution (Hi-Res) 24 bit FLAC audiophile quality music files up to 24/192 PCM in addition to CD 16/44.1 resolution (and MP3). In a nutshell: Think Tidal-but for the connoisseur.