Deezer HiFi With Hi-Res Quality: 24bit/96kHz or more

Let's get higher resolution streams implemented already Deezer. We have Bryston and Paradigm gear that benefit greatly from the higher quality, still waiting on you. DvD-A, SACD and high resolution downloads sound wonderful but don't offer the convenience I'm already paying for with my Deezer hifi subscription

I hope deezer never caves in to the pressure and remains with CD quality. It sounds fantastic, I have zero streaming issues, and sound quality and bitrates are consistent. Qobuz and Amazon tout their hi-res stuff, but in reality, any listening session I do with them is comprised of equal parts CD quality and hi-res, because that’s what is available.

Amazon and Tidal were an experiment in “When will the music drop out again?” for me and, anecdotally, for many others.

CD quality is the sweet spot.

I’m so far very happy with the cd quality 16bit/44Khz  (lossless) FLAC streams at a sharp price point, most (older) tracks were mastered for cd and would thus not benefit from (more) hires quality. There’s certainly a point for 24bit/96Khz quality as it gives the engineers more headroom for their implementations, but please know I’m a trained physicist and stand firmly behind the Nyquist-Shannon dictate. I’ve been reading around and know 44Khz needs a sharp low-pass filter which at higher sampling frequencies would have less risk of aliasing into the audible spectrum but apart from that I neglect all subjective comments on the benefits of hi-res audio, show me the measurements!

I think Deezer has to attend to two matters in order to be more competitive:

Introduce a 24 Bit music catalogue to rival Apple Lossless and Tidal (although Tidal has its issues). 24-bit / 44,1kHz, or even better 24-bit / 48 kHz (which is what Apple Lossless listeners effectively get unless they invest in some additional hardware in order to access higher res). That is also a nice file size to still stream seamlessly.

Secondly, to make Tidal hifi (and above 24 Bit) also available on Android TV boxes, which is where Tidal has one up on them. 

Deezer has me caught between a rock and a hard place, my equipment can run much higher than 16/48, but don’t really want to contribute to Amazon/Apple, which means its either Deezer or Qobuz (Tidal and its MQA shenanigans is a no go).

With the Spotify exodus, Deezer is well placed to take advantage, but it needs to be doing better, and higher than 16/48 has to be one of the main planks going forward.

Ouch sorry, I meant - to make Deezer hifi (and the new 24bit catalogue) available on Android TV boxes (the current app does not, while Tidal's app does everything, incl some MQA unfolding).

24bit/48kHz could be a really good product, meaning native high res (24/96-192) scaled down to 24/48, which is a straightforward process that does not introduce other audible problems, and is still easy to stream. Whatever audible benefit there is from higher (than 48kz) resolutions are probably cancelled out by the practical complications to stream it.

Going 24 bit would be the icing on the cake for me.

I  have a small library of DSD and 24/pcm files that I can clearly hear the superiority of on either my Cyrus amp with B&W speakers or my planar mag cans.

I’m probably going to run a Qobuz account (single user) alongside my family hi-fi Deezer account but I’d much prefer it to be all Deezer.

Do it. do it, do it, do it, do it, do it, do it…..

Hello, guys. This is the moment, where you should really consider some kind of a hi-res implementation. With Crapify going belly up with theirs, you can provide users with an alternative to Tidal and Apple, with your larger catalogue and better discovery features than either of those.

I'd prefer that Deezer spend their development time supporting their existing HiFi service before adding higher res tracks that nobody will be able to use. Things like getting HiFi working on Android devices including GoogleTV (the most popular streaming device on the market), Roku (second most popular streaming OS AFAIK yet something thats no longer supported), WebOS, FireTV, Tizen, support for external DACs, etc...

Deezer would have little competition if it would go above and beyond cd quality. Their cd quality is great and I can only imagine 24 bit+.

Any Updates on this?