Switching from Tidal to Qobuz

Today I am switching from Tidal to Qobuz as my primary streaming service. Here is an explanation as to why I made this choice.

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[TheMMadmaXX]

Quite interesting, I also switched from Tidal to Qobuz a while ago. For me the main reason was the combined offer of streaming and buying hi-res music at a discount.

[borikero]

Qobuz is my favorite music streaming service...by far. I tried them all, multiple times.

[OptLab]

Nice insight. I experience the same with Spotify over others. I feel like spotify is fatiguing ? It's something I notice only after a while. Spotify seems also slightly less vocal forward, more bassy which makes my listening gear even less vocal forward. Could it be the reason or am is it psychological ?

[BigJohnAUonline]

Fatigue comes from over done compression, limiting, clipping, the loudness war ruins music. You can hear it easily in all streaming platforms and CD.

[japekki]

Are you gonna switch back to Tidal because they announced they gave up tiers and after april 10th 2024 there will be only one tier called Tidal at price 10, 99$ with up to 24-bit 192khz hires audio?

[deathcrush]

Is Tidal worth it now it has high quality flac?

[Rumeel]

Mmmm ok, so does hi-res music quality depend on the artist or the streaming service? Or both as in comparing Tidal and Qobuz? I am just starting my journey and so far I see the artist i like not having much hi-res audio (only using Qobuz). Does that depend on the artist (record co) or is that Qobuz? Can the streaming service make CD quality hi-res? And if so is it true high res or upscaling?

[wahid-lgkk]

So how fast does your connection need to be without roon to downsample for me or whatever? I am thinking of dumping Tidal, but I live in a small se asian village, internet is not as good as what you have, I can get like 1mbps (megabyte) to 1.2

[jesse]

Tidal HiFi PLUS is $19.99 a month. Tidal HiFi is $9.99. MQA is a scam.

[TalkTimeVault]

I found videos here on YouTube saying hi-res audio is pointless and don't waste your money on it. What are your thoughts on that?

[sussychachi]

I used to use tidal first for a year or so then went to qobuz stayed for 5+ years, I tried to give tidal a second chance and got 3 months free, and I instantly canceled my 3 months free subscription since tidal just isn't my taste. Qobuz way better for me, the drums and vocals sound better and had a detailed clean sound for me compared to tidal. Tidal sounds a bit warmer but overall muddy compared to some say qobuz music gets fatiguing i dont see this at all. I use amps and headphpnes an dont really get fatigued.

[RogerBergqvist]

MQA... It's a joke. I have heard many explanations for what it is. Master Quality Authenticated. That means approximately zero. Did they use the 2" tape from the studio.... Who knows. In any case, Qobuz is a clearly more honest service. They also have a Club now.

[nomomomo]

Tidal is okay if you’re really into hip hoppy black music, but if not you’ll find there is no way to block out their suggestions (page after page), pretty irritating after a month. Obviously you can search for what you’d like but if 100% of your time has to be on the search screen then why not put it on front …simple like Google. I do enjoy Motown and other black artists, but Tildal isn’t for me.