Qobuz music streaming integrated into Devialet Phantom wireless speaker

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We caught up with Benoit Rebus from French music streaming service Qobuz at the Bristol Show, where he outlined its plans for 2015.

Qobuz, the French CD-quality music streaming service, has been incorporated into Devialet's latest wireless speaker, the Phantom, which is on display on the Qobuz stand. Visitors to Bristol can see and hear it in action.

Elsewhere around the show Qobuz is exhibiting alongside KEF, Bowers & Wilkins and Naim, and Benoit Rebus says the company is working closely with Sony, Astell & Kern and Cocktail Audio to integrate its CD-quality streaming service with those companies' products.

Intriguingly, Rebus says Qobuz has a "big announcement" planned for a press event in London on March 13th. Could it be that Qobuz will join is rivals in offering a high-resolution music streaming service? Might it adopt Meridian MQA?

Andy Clough
Andy Clough

Andy is Global Brand Director of What Hi-Fi? and has been a technology journalist for 30 years. During that time he has covered everything from VHS and Betamax, MiniDisc and DCC to CDi, Laserdisc and 3D TV, and any number of other formats that have come and gone. He loves nothing better than a good old format war. Andy edited several hi-fi and home cinema magazines before relaunching whathifi.com in 2008 and helping turn it into the global success it is today. When not listening to music or watching TV, he spends far too much of his time reading about cars he can't afford to buy.