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This is Amazon's issue, but you wont just have a bad experience on Roku, the Android and AndroidTV apps are garbage too, though, they'll play back at higher quality, it's just that Amazon Music HD is just generally buggy and has a bad UI.
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I was able to play back hi-res audio over plex and tidal (well, Tidal's CD quality), but not Amazon.
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I haven't tried in a month or two, since I returned my 2020 Roku Ultra in favor of an nVidia Shield TV Pro, but at that time, the Roku would pass through hi-res audio (which prior models would not), but the Amazon Music app would only play back mp3 audio. So I am left with DTS Play-fi to stream hi-res audio from my online music services, but again the visual content is missing. Oh and BTW the Apple TV 4K does not pass through audio bit streams either from Music apps to my AVR, nor does any Of Amazon products. I remember when when Roku/Amazon took down the first Amazon Music app because it was trash, and then several long months went by before the new app came back.
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I suspect the Amazon Music HD app on Roku is the true culprit, it just doesn’t have the audio signal for HD music playback. Getting back on topic here, it would just be nice, and seems so simple, for the Roku to actually “pass-through” the audio signal to my AVR without altering it. HEOS sounds pretty good, but I am not sure I can confirm the actual bit rate being played by the Denon AVR. However some people on various forums and articles that I have read recently claim that HEOS actually does not play back in true bit perfect form and compresses the audio information. I have a Denon AVR in my living room that uses HEOS, which I am impressed with, which of course provides the visual content display for Amazon Music HD and claims to playback in hi-res. That is why I was hoping Roku would solve this problem by allowing the audio to actually “pass-through” and allow my AVR to decode the signal, of course the MRX-720 has very high level DACs built into it. TIA.Well I usually stream to my Anthem MRX-720 from Amazon Music HD via DTS Play-Fi using an iphone or ipad, so I can get hi-res playback, that is bit perfect, but I miss the visual portion, you know the album art and lyrics being displayed on my TV. Would welcome any feedback / solutions from those who have gone through the same issues. Have to search for a particular song / album / singer (very rudimentary search) or use their recommended tracks / playlists (good recommendations but that portion of the app is quite buggy too - you select one track and it plays something else for no reason quite often).
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So, the goal is to stream it in best possible manner to my system. I prefer Amazon Music HD to Tidal & Qobuz due to the number of hi res tracks & the greater number of albums available in general. System in question: Denon X3700H AVR (with HEOS built-in used as a pre-amp) -> Parasound A21 -> Martin Logan Motion 60XT / Martin Logan Dynamo 1000W (twin subs)