The service is available immediately to users of BluOS Enabled products by NAD Electronics, DALI Loudspeakers, and Bluesound wireless multi-room players who are also Amazon customers in the United States, Japan, United Kingdom, or Germany.

As we have already stated, the new hi-res audio platform undercuts more established players such as Tidal, Qobuz, Spotify in the pricing stakes as well as not requiring any additional kit to unfold MQA.

Andrew Haines, BluOS Product Manager, told StereoNET:

We are proud to have been approached and chosen by Amazon to be among the first streaming platforms integrated with Amazon Music HD. And we are particularly proud to support the highest resolution UHD service tier, as the Amazon catalogue is extensive and gives our audiophile audience a broad selection of the highest quality music available.

The new Amazon service could well be a fly in the ointment for competitors but here at SNUK we can only see positives for consumers.