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What Hi-Fi?
What Hi-Fi?
Technology
Becky Roberts

Pure Audio Streaming service challenges Tidal and Qobuz with “world’s first lossless and immersive” catalogue – and you can sign up for early access now

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While the streaming of high-resolution stereo music has been an accessible reality for some years now, thanks to services such as Tidal, Qobuz and Apple Music pushing the quality at competitive prices, the same hasn’t been possible for streaming multi-channel audio.

Some existing services support ‘three-dimensional’ listening experiences via their support of the Dolby Atmos format and spatial audio technology, but such music is delivered compressed and lossily – it isn’t lossless.

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