Who's using what? Tidal-Qobuz-Spotify thru? Roon-Audirvana-Jriver

[Mr Peabody]

You have to use the search feature on Tidal. I've been able to find a pretty good variety of Rock, Jazz has a decent selection. Seems all music is not digitally licensed. For example, I was shocked not a single album by Tool. Those guys are sort of jerks though. I think the entire Kansas library is on there. Then there's artists like Patricia Barber who have some albums but missing a couple big ones.

When you find an artist Tidal is pretty accurate when clicking the "similar" button to bring up bands like the one you are listening to.

Tidal Hi-Res subscription, family pass. I do like the option of MQA.

I am looking forward to other Hi-Res services as Tidal seems more orientated towards a specific genre I don’t listening to.


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[shadowlight]

I have Spotify family subscription for on the go and replaced Tidal with Deezer HiFi.

 

[Kingrex]

I find a lot of what I like on all the services AO I gonfor sound quality. I have a computer based server so AO, HQ through Roon provides the best sound. I therefore use Roon to access my music. Qobuz has me interested so I news to figure out how to use HQ player with their library if possible. Would be great if they integrated with Roon. Would make it easier.

Also look at Primephonic if you like classical.

 

[Mr Peabody]

S&V has an article saying Qobuz is U.S. bound.

Good thread, I didn't realize Deezer was high fidelity and never heard of Primephonic

 

[Ritmo]

Tidal and my own files via Lumin. That may change depending on the future of Tidal.

 

[Conejo23]

Sorry for reviving an old threat but I figure with the advent of Qobuz in the US, might be worth a revisit. I found this googling on the topic.

We just recently upgraded our home theater speaker such that now we once again sitting at home and enjoy listening to music. Normally I listen to music in my high end car stereo system while driving. I was a longtime Spotify premium member but first found Tidal and even without hardware to decode MQA found it to produce a much better sound. Then I found Qobuz and I'm able to stream that directly to my Onkyo receiver via dlna and it works great, sounds markedly better than Tidal. And, the more I read about MQA the less I'm a fan of that approach.

So, I'd decided to go with Qobuz, connecting it to my receiver via dlna using the mconnect app. $6. Then I kept hearing about Audirvana so installed a free trial of that and first tried it directly from my laptop over my computer bookshelf speakers. Definitely a positive difference vs playing through the native Qobuz app. Then I tested the same songs to my home theater system using mconnect and then the Audirvana remote app. No question Audirvana sounds better, warmer and richer, the mids and highs not as shrill. So at the end of my trial I'll definitely buy the app, which is a LOT cheaper than Roon. And Roon has no dlna support and I'm not interested in buying something like a Blusound 2i.

So, in the car, just streaming directly from Qobuz on my iphone to my Pioneer head unit. And it sounds amazing. At home, Qobuz integration in Audirvana streamed with the Audirvana remote app (which I wish had a better layout) to my Onkyo TX-NR737 receiver. And it sounds fabulous.

I really like what Qobuz is doing, I like that it's not using MQA, and I like that their recommendations aren't trying to shove hip hop and rap down my throat like Tidal does. I'm more a combo of classic rock, classic jazz and classical. A given listening session might have Springsteen, Supertramp, Coltrane and Bach, lol.

I'd love to hear what other Qobuz subscribers are doing and how they utilize the service. I think Qobuz is going to take a lot of business from Tidal.

 

[joeinid]

Welcome!