Just read about a new streaming service that would have multi-channel music and HiRes music. Perhaps Room cam look into working with them as they are new and may be willing to integrate with Room.
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$300 for just 300 tracks? Seems a little steep.
Yes. It is steep.
I’m just a Roon user, like many, that loves music. I tried the service and here’s what I found… I was curious as my processor just got a firmware update to support AC Connect (like Tidal Connect) that Pure Audio Streaming uses to play direct to processor with App control.
- $25/month is a premium price. They offer a 7 day free trial when you sign up so you can also try.
- Requires Auro3D support to get the most from the content
- Content is a bit niche but there is a variety (Jazz, Classical, Blues, Acoustic, Rock, etc).
- The App (on iOS), it’s not bad but not great either. It’s a new service and I experienced the occasional crash of the app (3x over the course three 2 hours listening session). I was encouraged to see regular updates with bug fixes over the last several weeks/months.
- About 1/3 of albums I tried to play weren’t accessible. The app would bring up the album and then just perform a “next track” from first through last and not play any content. I would close the app and try again and same behaviour. Not sure if it’s my processor firmware, a bug in the app or content restriction in my region. Regardless, tough to not be able to access 1/3 of a limited library.
- Now on to the star of the show, literally. The sound quality is OUTSTANDING! I am very fortunate to have excellent gear but it’s an order of magnitude better (no joke) than Tidal Atmos, Apple Music surround, etc from a sound quality standpoint. The breadth and depth of immersive content available on Tidal / Apple Music bests this service but the content quality and how it sounds is something else!!
- I wrote to support about my content access issues and cancelled (for now) until they are resolved or more content is added that I can access. Hopefully they contact me to work to resolve or explain what’s going on.
My recommendation would be to give it a try. See what you’re missing and if you can access more content than I was able to. It’s worth experiencing for a period of time (even a week) to see what you might be missing and/or your system is capable of.
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Hi Scott,
If you’d like to check out our Pure Streaming service again, just drop a note to our support email and we’ll add you to the testing group.
Happy to have you on board whenever you’re ready.
Best regards,
The PAS Team
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Hi Andrija, it’s been a minute, appreciate you reaching out. Would like to believe Pure Audio and/or my processor software have had the time to improve and sort out the problems I experienced.
I’ll reach out to try things again and share what I find here.
Thanks!