Apple uses ALAC encoding I believe whereas Amazon Prime uses MP3 256K. I prefer the MP3 also.
There is a lot of "free" music on Amazon Prime, but no Led Zeppelin for instance.
Steve N.Empirical Audio
Apple vs Amazon
I'm not fully committed to streaming yet. DAC is low end. Finishing a 3 month free Apple Music trial. In truth, it doesn't sound that bad to me but tonight I started a 3 month Amazon Music trial and just after spending about an hour with it, it seems to sound better than Apple Music running through the exact same system. Fuller. Richer. More precise bass. No A/B testing, just a general impression. It might even be the music selection. I don't know. Is there any actual reason for this to be true? Or is it just me?
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ALAC should be better than MP3 imo, higher sampling rates and bit depths. That's what I expected, but I'm getting superb results with my XMOS USB interface. It's important to add one of these: https://sotm-usa.com/collections/sotm-ultra/products/copy-of-tx-usbultra-regenerator-1 Steve N. Empirical Audio |