26-Apr-2023, 21:06
I swapped fromTidal to Qobuz some time ago because I was having trouble with Tidal. I could access it, search for artists or albums and pick what I wanted to play but for some reason my selections just wouldn't play. Sometimes it worked fine, sometimes it didn't, and when Qobuz became available in Australia I swapped to it and it's been working fine.
Comparing Qobuz to Tidal I would say that I think Qobuz gives the best SQ. I think uncompressed high res from Qobuz sounds better than MQA from Tidal if you're using Roon to do the first MQA unfold and just passing that to your Devialet which is what I was doing. I have no idea how the SQ comparison would go if you're passing the MQA stream from Roon to something which can do the full MQA unfold process.
Qobuz has a big selection of music but I think Tidal's selection is bigger. I listen mostly to jazz with some classic rock. There were times with Tidal that I couldn't find something I liked and I can sometimes find something I couldn't find on Tidal on Qobuz but a bit more often I find that I can't find something on Qobuz that I could find on Tidal. Having said that, not being able to find something I'm looking for on Qobuz does not happen very often, the selection on Qobuz is more than large enough to keep me happily supplied with new music and old music I haven't heard in years to make choosing what I want to hear a difficult task.
If you buy music downloads and you choose Qobuz's top tier subscription you can buy high res downloads for less than the cost of CD quality downloads but you only get the cheaper prices on high res downloads. If you buy CD quality downloads you pay the normal price for the download. If you buy a lot of high res downloads then Qobuz's top tier subscription is worth the higher price for the savings you will make buying high res downloads.
I definitely do not miss Tidal.
Comparing Qobuz to Tidal I would say that I think Qobuz gives the best SQ. I think uncompressed high res from Qobuz sounds better than MQA from Tidal if you're using Roon to do the first MQA unfold and just passing that to your Devialet which is what I was doing. I have no idea how the SQ comparison would go if you're passing the MQA stream from Roon to something which can do the full MQA unfold process.
Qobuz has a big selection of music but I think Tidal's selection is bigger. I listen mostly to jazz with some classic rock. There were times with Tidal that I couldn't find something I liked and I can sometimes find something I couldn't find on Tidal on Qobuz but a bit more often I find that I can't find something on Qobuz that I could find on Tidal. Having said that, not being able to find something I'm looking for on Qobuz does not happen very often, the selection on Qobuz is more than large enough to keep me happily supplied with new music and old music I haven't heard in years to make choosing what I want to hear a difficult task.
If you buy music downloads and you choose Qobuz's top tier subscription you can buy high res downloads for less than the cost of CD quality downloads but you only get the cheaper prices on high res downloads. If you buy CD quality downloads you pay the normal price for the download. If you buy a lot of high res downloads then Qobuz's top tier subscription is worth the higher price for the savings you will make buying high res downloads.
I definitely do not miss Tidal.
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Brisbane, Qld, Australia
