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

I’m waiting for HEOS Deezer Hifi Support to switch to Deezer Hifi from Tidal. In the meantime thank you Rudi for at least still hearing us out

Hey @Badirr 

There's nothing to thank me for, what a nice reply from you 

If it was for the team, we would've had 100 more features than we actually have. But everyone is working hard to bring everything forward. And feedback like yours is precious and essential to make this happen.

I'll be passing it on now, so that the rest of the teams know about this being the only thing holding you up 

Hi @Badirr @lvrmsc @Pima @Alex Po 

Thanks for waiting. After a few chats with our product teams about this, we managed to activate FLAC streaming for the HEOS app   I now need you to test this and let me know how it works, to make sure we're doing the right thing 

Hi @Rudi,

What should we have to do to test?  Do we need to wait for Denon/HEOS to push a software update to their devices (their new / recent DRA-800H in my case)? Just checked: the device has the latest firmware available (at this instant, might different by tomorrow or in some days).

I just turned it up, and Deezer still streams the MP3 320 Kbps content for now (there is a display on the device, along with the Status key, that allows to reveal the format of the stream currently playing).

So we’re probably missing some instructions to join in the test.

Anyway, thanks for trying and to listening to us.

I'm very interested by the answer because yesterday i subscribed to deezer hi-fi and got disappointed to see my heos streaming at 320 kbps. I own a denon avr.

I switched my subscription to HiFi because of this announcements and there is only MP3 - 320 kbps on my Marantz NR1200 in HEOS display ‘now playing’. Should we wait on HEOS update? Any extra information would be helpful...

So Rudy, how can we test Deezer Hifi on HEOS ? We can help you but share the process to test the compliance between HEOS and Deezer !

If I had to guess, I’d say the 3 most widely used audio component streaming hardware platforms globally are Sonos, Denon/Marantz Heos, and Yamaha MusicCast.

Deezer HiFi FLAC works on 2 of the 3, right?

I feel Deezer should make Denon/Marantz Heos a priority for HiFi FLAC, as Denon/Marantz AVRs and Processors are very popular.  Also, I believe that the folks who own traditional audio components and nice speakers are probably some of the more fervent people when it comes to sound quality, so getting Deezer HiFi FLAC to these systems would be of high interest to these people (self included).

If Deezer does implement HiFi FLAC on Denon/Marantz Heos, please implement Favorites/My Music.

While Amazon Music HD does play at full resolution on Denon/Marantz Heos, the lack of one’s personal library Favorites/My Music was a deal breaker for me personally, as you have to search for tracks/albums each time.

Hi. I also just tried to stream the flac file but for me it's also just MP3 320kps. I made sure that all settings are on highest quality and I tried several tracks. What am I doing wrong @Rudi ?

 @Rudi, in the Chromecast thread you said the Deezer HiFi now works with Heos.

However, like the poster above, I’m only getting 320 kbps MP3, so HiFi is not working.

Heos is on my Marantz AV7704 processor, which works with tracks up to 24 bit/192 kHz on Amazon Music HD and Qobuz.  Also, my Heos app is up to date.