So I was reading discussion and articles about about this yesterday.
Qobuz have promised it for a long time but it seems it is out there and in beta test working with wiim devices, and suggestion to Qobuz Club members to talk to their dealers and amp manufacturers to get on board with it.
So wondering if anyone has any Arcam news on this? Anyone heard anything? Should we start dropping an email to their support email address about it?
I emailed and got a response back already. As you would expect maybe, no news. Interestingly the response does not mention MusicLife
“ At this time, we do not have any information on Qobuz Connect for our units and would not be able to comment on if this feature will become available or not. As of right now, the only Connect features available on our units are, as you pointed out, for Tidal Connect and Spotify Connect. For Qobuz, the only ways we have to connect are via the Qobuz app using Chromecast or Airplay, via Qobuz through Roon, or via the Web GUI of our units.”
A friend has been beta testing Qobuz Connect on his WIIM device and says it is great and does gapless as well. That’s probably the main difference between QC and Chromecast. He also said it is quicker to transfer and sounds a bit better than Chromecast, but not sure if that is purely subjective.
Personally I prefer Chromecast to AirPlay (which I strongly dislike due to lack of handoff).
I have removed my Tidal and Qobuz accounts from my Roon set-up so it would be nice to have a QC implementation on the SA30,.as currently I am using LMS or BubbleUPNP for listening to those.
But when people use Tidal Connect and leave my SA30 locked to it I do find that quite annoying, so I am thinking we would have the same issue with QC