Deezer HiFi for Denon HEOS and Denon / Marantz HEOS built-in devices

I too have paid 1€ for the 3 month TIDAL trial, and am now listening to my music in FLAC on my Denon for the first time.

TIDAL lacks a feature like Flow, which is a shame, but I imagine it’s coming soon (they have personalised playlists already). If at the end of the three months there isn’t evidence of progress from Deezer I guess I will stick with TIDAL.

Hi folks. It seems like integration between these two platforms are almost imposible!! Some years pass by and we don’t see big improvements regarding these two points:

• Beter interface integration in HEOS (Sound United streaming platform for Denon and Marantz) or conection with HEOS inside Deezer app, Spotify has already this feature.
• HiFi feature inside HEOS enviroment, Tidal can stream with HiFi quality inside HEOS.

What we can do? As customers we only can push cross social media, reviews and so on. Any with me?

I also bought a Denon receiver paired with good quality Dali Ikon speakers cause I love good quality music. Always used Deezer and wanted to switch to hifi. Luckiliy I found this commity to see that Deezer has failed after years to implement hifi audio with HEOS. 

I am also going to try out Tidal, since now the price for a family Tidal account is even cheaper than Deezer family (hifi)! 14.99 vs 17.99. 

I liked Flow quite a bit, but i don't want to support a company that leaves their customers in the dark.

If you can implement HIFI you might get some customers back. But it's a shame.

While still waiting for the native integration of Deezer Hifi into the HEOS App, linked an important information for others waiting.

At least some of the actual Denon | Marantz products with HEOS built-in can actually receive audio via AirPlay 2 and for these devices the following information is relevant.

I have upgraded to Hifi and my HEOS App shows Deezer music played via AirPlay on the Marantz SR7015 with AirPlay as title. Looks like the device converts the received ALAC stream further into PCM while the output format in the Deezer iOS App shows Hifi, meaning FLAC being send.

Deezer App (Input)	HEOS App (Receiver)	Marantz App (Converted Input)

And there seems to be an outstanding firmware update for HEOS built-in enabled devices: „A common firmware for all HEOS Built-in products is planned for the Q1 of 20222.“ (I expect it‘s overdue this year and not planned in 18200 years ;-) 

https://support-uk.denon.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/3832/~/latest-heos-app-and-firmware-update-available
 

Maybe that finally brings native Deezer HiFi support?!? Let’s hope …

The good news is that today (13.04.2022) my Denon and Marantz devices received a HEOS update to version 2.47.190 (Build 193645) which brings support for Airplay 2 for HEOS Built-in stereo pairs, 5.1 setups, and more, the bad news is that “and more” does not include native Deezer HiFi support.

Is anybody at Deezer following up on this subject with Soundunited (D&M, HEOS)?

Please provide an update here!

With Sound United now being purchased by Masimo I'd be very surprised if they started work on supporting new platforms before the acquisition is complete and their future direction is known. 

It’s hopefully not that they now need to start work to support a new platform as:

1. Deezer is already supported, so it will be an enhancement for an existing platform.

2. Sound United gave me feedback it’s on their plan during summer last year

3. Following that it should already be on the way.

4. The acquisition was announced to be completed the day before the latest HEOS update and it does not look like a change in the strategic direction.

I gave up and got a bluesound node 2 for cheap. Good device and everything already available. Heos is ridiculous.

According to the above post from Yula (11 May 2022):
 

Hey there@Aquin Colaco! 

Unfortunately we are not moving forward with the Heos integration for the time being. 

But you can play with AirPlay and you will receive the music in Flac.

My Deezer subscription just lapsed, and I won’t be renewing. I’m sad but there we go.