As you know, the High resolution or Hi-Res music It has been with us for quite some time, and when it comes to streaming we can enjoy it on all platforms except Spotify, which is precisely the most used in the world. Well, it is now confirmed that this new subscription to access this sound quality will not only arrive much later than its competitors, but will also be more expensive. That is what is confirmed again with other information that refines the shot a little more about the price it will have at launch.
More expensive than its direct competitors
And we still have several months ahead of us to be able to enjoy it, specifically the new information suggests that this new subscription will be released at the end of this year, 2024. And they also talk about the price that we will have to pay to be able to enjoy it. Specifically, we are talking about that the new subscription called Supremium with high-resolution sound, commonly known as Hi-Res, would arrive with priced at $16.99, $5 more than the standard subscription with music in Mp3. With this, it will far exceed the price of its direct competitors, such as Apple Music or Amazon Musicwho decided not to raise their subscriptions when introducing this audio quality, although they later did so at a rate of one dollar per year as all platforms do.
We even have proposals like those of TIDAL, which offers Hi-Res music for only 9.99 euros, although then it has more expensive plans where the quality is even higher, and goes up to 192Khz. Therefore, it is evident that Spotify is not coming to compete in price with this subscription, but knowing its huge number of users, it trusts that many of them will switch to the new Supremium without blinking, which will compensate for not having such a competitive price. .
And let’s not forget that Spotify It does not expect to recover all those users who at the time left the platform because it did not have this sound quality, among which I am, but rather it hopes that it is among its current clientele that its bulk of sound clients come from. High Fidelity. At least we have to be pleased that it seems that this price will finally be lower than what had been rumored before, since there had been talk of an average of between 19 and 20 dollars per month for it.
And here in Spain, to know, because those 16.99 dollars They could without any problem become 19 euros per month, a price that was previously paid for Hi-Fi sound, but that no longer makes much sense, unless you are Spotify and despite arriving last, you offer it at a higher price, something that sounds familiar to us from other large technology companies. So the normal thing is that this new subscription serves to set a new price ceiling on the platform, and why not, for a new increase in the standard subscription, which next to this new one will not seem so expensive even if they raise it again Price. And all of course, in the name of a better user experience.
