Qobuz And Tidal vs Spotify

No. It’s rubbish MP3, that some people with piss poor systems or deaf ears will tell you sounds the same as Tidal or Qobuz. It doesn’t. Qobuz is best, with Tidal right there with it now.
 
bluegrassphile said:
A.J., does Amazon HD sound as good as Qobuz and Tidal?
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Depends. *If* the same master is used, they should be indistinguishable. There is really no way to know that and in the case of Tidal, there is definite remastering with their "MQA" tracks, for better or worse.
If you're an old school audio guy, you probably remember when you had LPs, tapes and FM all as sources. For me, streaming is "a" source, not "the" source. It compliments.
I chose Amazon because the SQ is as good as any lossless service, the price as a Prime member is $15 and their catalog is large. The GUI and more importantly, search feature, works well. The probability of them going kaput financially is low.
I know of no law preventing anyone from having them all.
As always YMMV.
 
CPP said:
It sure is.
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Agreed. I have both Tidal and Quobuz too. I also don't think there is any difference in SQ quality between the two as long as you are comparing apples to apples when listening to files. It's also interesting how some 16/44.1 files trounce supposedly high-rez files in SQ.
 
mep said:
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It's also interesting how some 16/44.1 files trounce supposedly high-rez files in SQ.
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Not to mention that many so called high-Rez files do not contain and more musical information than the original 16/44 CD.
 
nicoff said:
Not to mention that many so called high-Rez files do not contain and more musical information than the original 16/44 CD.
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Agreed, and sometimes less. If you hear a file that you know was sourced from analog tape and you can't hear the noise floor of the tape that made the digital file, that file was run through a filter to eliminate the tape hiss. The problem is, other information is scrubbed from the file when it's run through the hiss filter. Another thought: How many "hi-rez" files are really 16/44.1 files that have been upsampled?
 
We had Tidal. Canceled. We enjoy Qobuz. We can also share our Playlists here and if you like them you can add them to your own.
 
I had Tidal. Cancelled. They came back to me with $2 for 4 months offer. Didn't bother. I've stayed with Spotify Premium. For me it's the better all-round package.
 
I like both Qobuz and Tidal, it all depends on the track. What do you prefer 44 kHz MQA or 44 kHz 16 bit FLAC?

196 kHz 24 bit FLAC or 44 kHz MQA?
 
I like both Qobuz and Tidal, it all depends on the track. What do you prefer 44 kHz MQA or 44 kHz 16 bit FLAC?

196 kHz 24 bit FLAC or 44 kHz MQA?
 
I subscribed to Tidal last year. When Qobuz became available I tried it. I decided to keep Tidal and drop Qobuz only because during those early days, the Qobuz library was not as complete as Tidal’s.
In the past two months, Amazon HD came out and Qobuz lowered its price in line with Amazon’s and 25% cheaper than Tidal. I also read that Wobuz library has improved. So I just re-subscribed to Qobuz and will check out their current library compared to Tidal’s.

Right now I am in the process of converting all my Tidal Playlist, Albums and Tracks to Qobuz (using Soundiiz).

I have 30 days to decide.

Update: the transfer of playlists, albums, and tracks from Tidal to Qobuz went smoothly. Looks like only 8 tracks did not transfer. Considering that I had thousands, that is not a big deal. Looking more and more that I will be dropping Tidal soon. Need to play with Roon/Qobuz combo prior to final decision.
 
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