Qobus or Tidal which do you recomend

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Mordante

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Currently I have neither Tidal, Qubos not Spotify. But thinking about getting either Tidal or Qobus.

Is there any real difference between Qobus or Tidal? Personally I was thinking about Qobus Hifi. The sublime + seems a bit expensive.

Any tips.

I use a Auralic Aries LE as streamer.
 
I have both Qobuz and Tidal at the moment (through my Aurender N10 which has the MQA update, I don't have a MQA DAC).
The High-res files in Qobuz are not better or worse then the Tidal MQA files. (maybe a full MQA DAC might change that)

Overall I don't have a real preference, both are reliable, Qobuz has some more classical music content.

Olaf
 
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If and when Qoboz gets integrated into Roon then and only then will I consider it as a viable option.
 
Mordante said:
I have zero interest in Roon. IMHO it just adds a useless layer to music playback.
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Those of us who have removed what we feel is a "useless" piece of gear, that being a CD transport, require software to organize and select our music.
 
CommandPerformanceAV said:
For Classical music in particular, if you type say "Scarlatti" - all there Scarlatti album will pop up. For some reason this doesn't work on Tidal. On the other hand Tidal has a lot more genre classifications and The "curated content" / playlists seemed a bit better on Tidal vs Qobuz ...But we'll have to see how things shake out when the actual US launch happens.
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Searching classical music in Tidal is certainly demanding. Often I have to do separate searches of performer, conductor, album and/or composer names to dig out what I’m looking for. Just searching, for example, “Vasks” won’t give me everything by the Latvian composer. If Qobuz nails this then I may have to switch, though I’d lose the fun of the hunt.
Parker
 
pdub said:
Searching classical music in Tidal is certainly demanding. Often I have to do separate searches of performer, conductor, album and/or composer names to dig out what I’m looking for. Just searching, for example, “Vasks” won’t give me everything by the Latvian composer. If Qobuz nails this then I may have to switch, though I’d lose the fun of the hunt.
Parker
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Yes, Tidal makes you work for it. You never know what you’re going to find, when or where. And it seems to be a moving target. Something will show up one place one time and then appear somewhere else, the next.

Looking forward to trying Qobuz with Roon.
 
still-one said:
Those of us who have removed what we feel is a "useless" piece of gear, that being a CD transport, require software to organize and select our music.
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I ripped al my CDs to a NAS and whenever I buy a new CD I directly rip it to my NAS. I use my Auralic Aries LE as the streaming device with it Lightning software. I don't see the point of paying for Roon when all streamers come with their own software.
 
CommandPerformanceAV said:
What I found is that Qobuz seems to have a much larger hi resolution catalog (like 2 million tracks) vs Tidal (last account I saw was 100K and growing). And they are standard PCM, not MQA. Based on listening to MQA tracks vs Qobuz hi-res, the latter sounded better to me (better clarity / soundstage / smoothness).

For Classical music in particular, if you type say "Scarlatti" - all there Scarlatti album will pop up. For some reason this doesn't work on Tidal. On the other hand Tidal has a lot more genre classifications and The "curated content" / playlists seemed a bit better on Tidal vs Qobuz.

Pricing should be same or lower vs Tidal for annual subscriptions. But Tidal has various discount subscription schemes (family / education / military) that brings the price way down. I can't imagine Qobuz won't respond when they launch in the US.

The Qobuz hi-res service will be marginally more vs Tidal Hi-Fi level if bought on an annual subscription cost basis.

So anyway : as of now I'd give the edge somewhat to Qobuz. But we'll have to see how things shake out when the actual US launch happens.
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Tidal:
Premium euro 9.99
Hifi euro 19.99

Qubos
Premium euro 9.99month 99.99year
HiFi 19.99month 199.99 year
Studio 24.99month 249.99year
Sublime+ 299.99year
 
Yeah, you always have to drill down with Tidal. You just never know which bit to use. I don't know how many times I finally found an album on the search of a fourth or fifth piece of info, whereas if there was adequately thorough metadata any combo of two of those data points should have resulted in the title sought. So I guess I'm hoping Qobuz has more thorough metadata?
 
I just got a monthly Qobus Studio subscription. If I like it I might switch to a yearly subscription.
 
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