On June 20th, QQ Music, the leader in on-line music service (NYSE: TME), and Silent Angel, the leader in HiFi network playback technology, held a joint press conference to announce a new product offering in China, in the name of “QQ Music SVIP Silent Angel Privilege”.
Silent Angel’s CEO Dr. Eric Huang, CTO Chorus Chuang, and QQ Music’s Senior Director of Audio Technology Shuo Cao, Director of Music Audio Technology Dr. Zhenhai Yan attended the conference. The event presents a round-table focused on innovations catering to enhance the audio experience for music enthusiasts.
The press conference presented Silent Angel’s Munich MU, which is the first HiFi digital streamer to natively playback QQ Music’s network content at 24bit/192kHz, especially the premium master recordings. This collaboration marks a new strategic move for QQ Music in the HiFi market. The partnership helps QQ Music to increase its influence in the HiFi market by presenting its master recordings to the audience through Silent Angel’s acclaimed HiFi playback products, which includes network streamers and servers, audio-grade switches, high-precision word clocks, and linear power supplies. This collaboration merges the cloud and device technology and fills the gap of network HiFi in China’s domestic market.
QQ Music SVIP Silent Angel Privilege: Top-NotchSound Quality in Domestic Network-HiFi
With the rapid growth of major on-line streaming music services and advances in network technologies such as 5G, the demand for high-quality network music among music lovers is steadily increasing. Streaming music platforms have become an increasingly important source of HiFi music. In a traditional HiFi setup，hi-resolution audio typically plays from disk storage. Only a small portion of lossless content can be well-enjoyed through on-line streaming, the rest often sacrifices some level of sound quality due to compression and other factors. For many audiophiles, sound quality is the core demand. Balancing high-level music experience with listening convenience remains a significant challenge in the network HiFi field.
To deliver studio-level sound quality with convenience, QQ Music and Silent Angel launched the “QQ Music SVIP Silent Angel Privilege” program, a.k.a. Silent Angel Privilege. This program is a new digital music playback solution allowing audiophiles to play premium master recordings at 24bit/192kHz quality using Silent Angel HiFi audio equipment. QQ Music’s industry-first premium master recordings can improve the sound quality of ordinary and even SQ-quality songs by 52%-55%, restoring studio-level sound quality. The jointly developed network playback technology under the name of QQ Music SVIP Silent Angel Privilege further accelerates and stabilizes the transmission of master recordings with transport path and reception optimization, achieving high-fidelity, interference-free playback of high-bitrate recordings. Starting today, users who purchase Silent Angel Munich series products may receive up to one year of free Silent Angel Privilege membership, allowing them to enjoy a vast library of lossless high-bitrate music from QQ Music with one-click convenience.
For Silent Angel Privilege members, QQ Music has also customized an exclusive “Silent Angel Zone” where users can freely choose from numerous premium master recordings and discover more great songs through intelligent and precise recommendations. Additionally, when pushing premium master recordings to Silent Angel devices for playback, users benefit from the above-mentioned transport optimization services for a smooth Hi-Fi music ride.
Savoring Exquisite “Sound” Life: QQ Music Understands HiFi Audiophiles Better
As a leading global streaming music platform with over one billion registered users, QQ Music is hailed as “the trendy music gathering place for young people in China.” QQ Music always centers on users, providing diverse and high-quality music by understanding young users’ preferences.
This collaboration with Silent Angel is based on the deep insight into the high-quality music needs of audiophiles. Silent Angel, a pioneer in the network HiFi field globally, has keen observation and strong technological capabilities in the digital HiFi playback realm, while QQ Music boasts top-notch audio contents. Addressing the long-standing convenience issues in the HiFi equipment market, Silent Angel and QQ Music jointly developed a new set of API, allowing QQ Music to be seamlessly embedded in Silent Angel’s audio-grade operating system, i.e., the VitOS. Users only need to open Silent Angel’s application called VitOS Orbiter, select QQ Music as the music service before entering login name and password, then begin their journey to explore and playback the Hi-Fi contents. Users do not need to switch to the QQ Music app, simplifying the previously complex operation.
To obtain the best sound quality and purest listening experience for HiFi users, the Silent Angel Privilege network playback technology stabilizes data flow and eliminates electromagnetic interference. By directly streaming master recordings from QQ Music’s cloud servers to Silent Angel devices, this technology ensures highest level of fidelity and smoothness in playback, surpassing that of CD for an unparalleled interference-free listening experience.
Beyond HiFi: QQ Music and Silent Angel Realizes “Listening to What I Want” for Everyone
As a leading global streaming music platform, QQ Music is committed to enabling everyone to “listen to what I want,” while Silent Angel is famed for allowing everyone to “get the best out of what I want”. This collaboration between QQ Music and Silent Angel highlights both companies’ attention and support for the HiFi music community. Innovation is key to driving industry development and engaging in sincere dialogue with users in the music market. QQ Music and Silent Angel combined can continuously evolve the content, services, and features to meet diverse user needs.
This collaboration between QQ Music and Silent Angel showcases their engineering-level co-innovation in technology and audio quality, injecting new momentum into developing the domestic HiFi market. It opens up more possibilities for users to experience top-tier pure audio sensations. In the future, the two parties will further cooperate in the automobile market, as well as AI-empowered music entertainment, such as music creation assistance, music for sleep-aid, and music therapy, providing users with a more beautiful musical life.