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

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With several choices available in both streaming services and cataloging interfaces, just wondering what combination you have found to work best. (feel free to include any and all other resources than those listed)

I recently changed from a Mac mini running Tidal/Jriver to Tidal direct to MicroRendu / Lynn Kazoo for a very nice increase in sound quality.

Interested in learning your connections.
 
Roon definitely seems to be gaining momentum. I get asked about it all the time.

Since I’m a big MQA fan, the Aurender is the ONLY app that lets your search only MQA albums. Hats off to those guys.
 
I would tend to believe I am one of our younger members but the rapid advances of digital have me feeling quite old. I’m not very versed in this area and need to read up more. Kudos to you guys who keep up on this stuff.


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I stream Tidal through my Aurender N10 and N100H music servers. Both have the MQA license applied so I am also able to enjoy MQA at 24/96 when something of interest catches my ear.
 
I changed a few month ago Spotify for Tidal especially because of MQA unfold by the last Aurender update.
I could use also hirez Qobuz streaming ( there are still region restrictions with Qobuz) but I prefer to buy hirez files instead of stream them.
So I continue to buy hirez mainly from Qobuz and native dsd files from nativedsd.com ( try Fone!), listen also quite often to Tidal MQA.
I use Tidal as well in our summer house where I have Aries mini with Fram Maxi active loudspeakers.
For 10 euro a month Tidal MQA is no brainer:)
 
About 20 days ago, I changed Tidal for Qobuz Supreme +, executing it directly on my Lumin.
Since the reproduction of MQA in Lumin is not to my liking (I would like to hear MQA on another device) I have moved to Qobuz High Res and I am very happy with the quality of sound. However, sometimes problems of cutting reproduction that I almost never had with Tidal​
 
I have not used Qobuz, aside from them, I agree, Tidal is a no brainer, the High Fidelity subscription is 44.1k/16 bit FLAC, at a minimum and using a computer you can do MQA and even higher resolutions, provided your DAC is up to the task.

Marslo said:
I changed a few month ago Spotify for Tidal especially because of MQA unfold by the last Aurender update.
I could use also hirez Qobuz streaming ( there are still region restrictions with Qobuz) but I prefer to buy hirez files instead of stream them.
So I continue to buy hirez mainly from Qobuz and native dsd files from nativedsd.com ( try Fone!), listen also quite often to Tidal MQA.
I use Tidal as well in our summer house where I have Aries mini with Fram Maxi active loudspeakers.
For 10 euro a month Tidal MQA is no brainer:)
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I now use Qobuz almost exclusively though so far have kept the Tidal subscription for the occasion when a title is not available on Qobuz. Even on just the standard FLAC titles I find the sound quality of Qobuz to be superior. Am not a big fan or user of MQA and have tried it on three different streamers from three different companies. Using Spotify's "artist radio stations" is a great way to pick a basic genre to just let music play for hours when doing other things. Also the FLAC version of Radio Paradise is another alternative and free. Unlike nonesup I have never had a cutout or interruption with Qobuz unlike with Tidal though changing my DNS setting to Cloudfare has eliminated most of the cutout and stuttering problem with Tidal at least for now. With all I use the streamers Native app.
 
I do not use a streaming service... I play all my music from my music server... hi-rez downloads (best I can find of the particular album that I can find, but DSD up to 256 whenever I can find it); CD or SACD rips... I use Roon to HQPlayer (over sampling to DSD512 with 48 base clock... 24.6 MHz)... can not beat the combination for the finest digital playback software, in my view.
 
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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Randy Myers said:
I do not use a streaming service... I play all my music from my music server... hi-rez downloads (best I can find of the particular album that I can find, but DSD up to 256 whenever I can find it); CD or SACD rips... I use Roon to HQPlayer (over sampling to DSD512 with 48 base clock... 24.6 MHz)... can not beat the combination for the finest digital playback software, in my view.
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No streaming here either. Just play my Lumin playlist. I can’t listen to all the music I currently have. :)

I do programming for a living, but all this streaming crap-ola seems to complicated for me. I feel like the gardener who doesn’t cut his grass. LOL
 
I have a family acct for Spotify and I use it mainly for discovery and on my daily commute.

I don’t stream on main rig and have absolutely no desire for mqa and the farse that it is. I use Bandcamp a lot as a source to purchase or else its amazon, burningshed, kascope, hdtracks etc.. and all is stored on NAS. I then use ROON (lifetime) on a dedicated high end server with HQP.



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Tidal with the MQA licence, using an Aurender N10. I subscribed to Tidal over 2 years ago, and haven't purchased a CD since.
 
Tidal MQA from my N10 to my Berkeley MQA DAC is how I usually stream. For me the SQ is much preferred over Tidal CD quality.
 
Tidal Hifi including MQA from a netbook via USB to a Mytek Brooklyn DAC (the full decoding is done by the DAC).

For ease of use and just to get to know new music I use a Chromecast Audio + iFi SPDIF purifier feeding the Brooklyn but the sound quality is not as good and, alas, no MQA.

I intend to buy a proper digital transport/ streamer when I think that the technology has stabilized a little.
 
I use Tidal with Squeezebox Touch and then out to the AURALIC Vega through coax cable! Love the results, almost better that my Synology streaming flac files to the AURALIC. Tidal is a great streaming service!
 
Qobuz Sublime to my Aries G2 using the Lightning DS App. Mostly for music discovery. If I like it I buy it in which Roon then takes over.
 
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