4/6/2023 0 Comments Qobuz vs tidal![]() I asked Qobuz via email if there was any type of compression applied to their music streams. The sound stage width and depth truncation may have been due to compression. ![]() Of the nine Tidal songs listed in table 1, only "Fireopal", "Slow Jam", and "Undun" showed their bit rates. Curiously, most of the Tidal songs I listened to did not report their bit rate. Qobuz generally had more clarity, detail and more natural sounding bass than Tidal. Qobuz and Tidal both presented sound stages with shortened depth, and sometimes shortened width, with no images projected further than the speaker plane. I listened to a lot more songs than those listed in table 1, but the table 1 songs are those that were listened to the most. Table 1 - List Of Song Version Comparisons I prefer to own physical music media, and make digital copies from them, rather than rent music from a streaming service. I prefer to own my vehicles rather than lease them. I prefer to own my residence rather than rent. However, even if the streamed music had been indistinguishable from music from the server, I still would prefer local server based playback for philosophical and lifestyle reasons. Tidal sounded better than Internet radio, but the sound quality reminded me of Internet radio.Īside from the spatial issues, Qobuz HiRez had fantastic sound quality that came close to the sound quality of native HiRez files of the same bit depth and sample rate. On my system, comparing different formats/resolutions of the same song and the same song/same resolution but different playback platforms, the hierarchy of sound quality was as follows:Ģ. Bottom line: Streamed music did not sound as good as music from my music server. Digital, analog, power, and control interfaces for two channel stereo system.įigure 3. All other Ethernet cables are Monoprice Cat8.įigure 2. Ethernet cables between the EtherREGEN and NAS and EtherREGEN and BDP-3 are Revelation Audio Labs Cat8+. Music files are stored on a Synology DS718+ Network Attached Storage (NAS). The EtherREGEN switch is clocked by an AfterDark Giesemann Trifecta Emperor Double Crown 10 MHz Master Clock. The dCS Debussy DAC and Bryston BDP-3 digital music player are clocked by a dCS Puccini word clock. The Araknis switch is hard wired to the "A" side of an UpTone Audio EtherREGEN audio grade Ethernet switch. The ISP modem is hard wired to a router, which is hard wired to an unmanaged 8-port Ethernet switch (Araknis AN-110-SW-R8). Music streamed from the Internet enters my home via a 1 gigabit Internet connection. This evaluation was done with 30-day trial subscriptions of Qobuz-Studio level service and Tidal-Lossless level service. Spotify (free) is sometimes used via my PC to audition new music. I did provide the name of someone I thought was very knowledgeable in the subject. I could not answer the question, because I don't stream. The thought of using the Qobuz and Tidal music streaming features never occurred until someone recently asked me a question about optimizing the performance of their streaming rig. The Internet radio feature is used occasionally. Switch off the volume normalisation in both and see if that holds true for you.My Bryston BDP-3 digital player has built-in features for Qobuz, Tidal, and Internet radio. Beware anyone saying one sounds better than the other. Personally, I would trial both free with my particular use cases and see which suits best. Of the small minority of my music that isnt on services, slightly more are missing from Qobuz than Tidal but ymmv in that regards (Spotify better than both).Īt the point when Tidal makes its connect feature available on PC- so I can control playback from my phone to PC, then to EQ and onto the DAC I will likely ditch amazon too. Tidal still integrates better into Roon IME and into UAPP than qobuz. Using the the hifi (lossless tier - I have no need of MQA. ![]() I now use Amazon music for listening through a PC -dac-amp rig (EAPO for headphone eq on the PC) and back to Tidal for using on mobile rig - it plays well with the Android UAPP rig, again for the EQ. ![]()
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