HiRes Archives

TIDAL’s HiRes plan now cheaper than Spotify

14/04/2024

TIDAL’s HiRes plan is now cheaper than Spotify coming in at £10.99/month compared to the recently increased Spotify Premium plan costing £11.99/month. Introduced on the 10th April, a TIDAL subscription is now the same price as Amazon Music and Apple Music. TIDAL subscription plans Individual – £10.99/month 110M+ tracks in lossless, HiRes FLAC and Dolby Atmos Ad-free, offline listening Personalized mixes, editorial playlists, and Live sessions Family (up to 6 members) – £16.99/month 110M+ tracks […]

CD Quality Internet Radio

08/04/2024

Back in the day, no self-respecting hi-fi enthusiast would have been without an FM tuner to receive quality stereo broadcasts. When internet radio was introduced traditional radio stations were quick to make their broadcasts available although the initial quality was often poor. These days there can hardly be a broadcast radio station of any note in the world that does not have a high quality internet presence opening up an almost unimaginable wealth of news, […]

SuperStereo Chile back on the air

26/03/2024

SuperStereo Chile is back ‘on the air’ after recovering from last week’s devastating flood which completely ruined its studio and servers. The station has changed its location and reestablished its streaming servers which went live on the 23rd March at 5am New York time. As part of the server rebuilds they have added 96kpbs AAC streams which are labelled Opus but are AAC. SuperStereo 1 and 1+ are Yacht Rock; SuperStereo 2 – 50’s,60’s and […]

TIDAL cuts the cost of HiRes streaming

07/03/2024

TIDAL cuts the cost of HiRes streaming by combining its HiFi Plus and HiFi tiers into a single subscription tier called TIDAL. Available from the 10th April, the streamer is updating the pricing across all of its 61 countries giving subscribers access to the complete 110 million track catalogue. The US pricing is as follows which essentially reduces its combined price to the same as its existing HiFi tier: The TIDAL Individual plan for $10.99 […]

Mother Earth Radio

07/03/2024

Mother Earth Radio is an internet radio station which now broadcasts 4 channels of free HiRes 24-bit/192kHz Lossless FLAC streams. In December 2021 the station added two new premium channels – Klassik and Instrumental – to its original channel but now has decided to make all 4 channels ‘free to air’ and is hoping for support from its listeners via a Donate page here. All four channels have a web player with FLAC, MP3 and […]

HiRes Internet Radio

15/01/2024

The gold standard for top end audio is HiRes Audio (24bit/96kHz or higher) and although the available music has been limited in comparison to the catalogue available in CD Quality this has gradually been increasing over the past couple of years. 2021 saw Apple Music launch its ‘Lossless’ service which joined Amazon Music, Qobuz and TIDAL all offering CD Quality and 24bit/96kHz or higher streams. Spotify’s much publicised announcement that it would launch its CD […]

SuperStereo 7

14/01/2024

SuperStereo 7 is a jazz genre internet radio station broadcasting a HiRes 24-bit/96kHz Lossless FLAC stream. SuperStereo Radio Chile also broadcasts another 6 channels of music in HiRes 24-bit/96kHz Lossless FLAC. According to the station, “SuperStereo Radio Chile is the first in South America broadcasting in high resolution. SuperStereo, the station for the audiophile.” SuperStereo 1 and 1+ plays Yacht Rock; SuperStereo 2 plays 50’s,60’s and 70’s music; SuperStereo 3 plays 80’s music; SuperStereo 4 […]